The download or upload speed indication can vary all over the place depending on many factors.
To understand, first install mtr
to view the path that your internet connection takes to a certain site (this is a simple traceroute
replacement or alternative)
At the prompt in a shell, type this and press enter at the end...
$ sudo apt-get install mtr
... it asks for your password to allow for the download and install of mtr
Now, again at the prompt, type.
$ mtr www.google.com
... and you will see something similar to (not the same!)
My traceroute [v0.86]
wkbx (0.0.0.0) Sat Jun 15 07:34:06 2019
Keys: Help Display mode Restart statistics Order of fields quit
Packets Pings
Host Loss% Snt Last Avg Best Wrst StDev
1. 192.168.222.1 0.0% 16 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.4 0.0
...
5. 10.30.71.97 0.0% 16 0.5 0.5 0.5 0.7 0.0
6. 10.30.71.93 0.0% 16 0.6 0.6 0.5 0.7 0.0
7. 10.30.71.89 0.0% 16 0.6 0.6 0.5 0.6 0.0
8. 10.30.71.85 0.0% 16 0.6 0.6 0.5 0.8 0.0
9. 10.200.205.37 0.0% 16 28.4 8.0 0.5 50.0 16.4
10. 10.200.205.61 0.0% 16 1.3 1.3 1.3 1.5 0.0
11. 10.200.200.86 0.0% 16 1.4 1.5 1.3 2.1 0.0
12. 10.200.200.97 0.0% 16 3.6 8.2 3.3 67.7 16.0
13. 10.200.200.25 0.0% 16 3.5 4.9 3.5 26.1 5.6
...
17. 108.170.253.161 0.0% 15 7.0 6.8 6.5 7.3 0.0
18. 209.85.241.29 0.0% 15 5.9 5.9 5.7 6.2 0.0
19. arn09s20-in-f4.1e100.net 0.0% 15 5.4 5.4 5.3 5.6 0.0
Each numbered line in this list has the IP-address of a computer (router, switch, ... - i.e. nodes) on the internet that is involved in sending your data to "www.google.com" (something.1e100.net) and receiving a reply back. The numbers to the right of each of them tells how well that particular node communicates with your computer.
Internet uses TCP/IP
for communication, where packets
are sent back and forth, the numbers in the list tell how many packets that has been lost, and the time it took to get a reply.
Now, to get to grips with the download (or upload) speed, do google for a speed test that is located close to you. e.g. https://www.google.com/search?q=internet+speed
Check out how that test works and ponder on the numbers it tells you.
The above should help you realize that internet speeds depends on many factors, that often are local to you and might e.g. vary with time of day, how many people are 'using the lines' (user concurrency) and what technical equipment (Radio, modem, DSL, fibre, ...) is used for them.
The internet speed was average: 20Mb/s Download and 3Mb/s Upload. Im the only one using the wifi, Ive done multiple speed tests on different websites, and I get the same results, the wire connecting the modem to the router, is capble of speeds way beyond the maximum download speeds I currently get, do you think this could help? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9upBz9RMgk
– PolisP2 – 2019-06-15T19:52:08.213