The upload/download indicated in System Monitor is always about an order of magnitude lower than what is reported by online tests such as speedtest.net or att.com/speedtest
Does anyone know why this is?
The upload/download indicated in System Monitor is always about an order of magnitude lower than what is reported by online tests such as speedtest.net or att.com/speedtest
Does anyone know why this is?
The difference between the network throughput measurements of Gnome System Monitor and the two mentioned online speed tests may be the difference between bytes and bits, because GSM can be configured to display either in units of bits or bytes.
In short: 8 bits make up 1 byte. Hence 8 Megabits (Mb) or 8,000,000 bits, make up 1 Megabyte (MB) or 1000² = 1,000,000 bytes.
To make things more complicated, GSM would display transfer speed in Mebibyte (MiB), which contains 1,024² = 1,048,576 bytes. Even worse, these online speed tests aren't always clear, whether they consider 1 Megabit to be 1000² or 1024² bits.