So i have my own Minecraft server because i got banned from the BSGF server. My friends from my school play on it but when 4 or more people are active, it begins to lag; a lot! What site will calculate my internet speed without possibly giving me a virus. I just contacted my server provider in increasing my internet speed. The guy said the bandwidth will be increased to 65gb. However I do not think that is internet speed.

I will post the records and you guys can tell me if its good or not. :vaultboy:

Ping: 21 ms
Download Speed: 6.4 Mbps
Upload: 0.45

I did 3 tests and I am using a wireless connection. My brother is also playing an online game on the Ps3 atm. So is it good or not?

http://www.speedtest.net/

Judging from what your ISP said, it looks like you have a bandwidth cap. I doubt Minecraft uses much bandwidth, but it is something to be aware of: if you go over that limit they are going to charge you obscene fees.

The link Terash posted will tell you your speed, but that won't help you plan around your cap. For that you need some router-level monitoring like what Tomato and DD-WRT offer

Tell it to me straight; doctor! :shakehead:

Yes they have charged me multiple times for going over the bandwidth limit.

Mine is:
Download : 0.64 Mp/s
Upload: 0.1 Mp/s
Ping: 250 ms

Global grade is F, local grade is C (the A and B are private VSat)...

Welcome to Nigeria !

Your upstream connection speed (0.45, which translates to about 50kb/s max upload speed) is probably the limiting factor in terms of server hosting effectiveness. I can't imagine that Minecraft would use much actual bandwidth though. I used to host a game server on a similar (upstream) connection and didn't have any problems, but maybe Minecraft's more demanding in that regard.

Have you considered that your computer hardware (probably memory) might be a significant factor?



Ouch...

Quick question, I took the speed test and these were my results, ping - 28ms, down - 20.79, up 4.41, is this reasonably good? What actually effects what? Also, I have a laundry list of registry errors. Would this significantly effect my speeds? Sorry to but-in on the op's topic, but I was actually going to be starting a thread on this, for the errors anyway.

The down speed is 20.79 Megabits/s = just about 2.5 Megabytes per second
Up speed is 4.41Mbps = just about .5MBps
The ping is how long it takes for you to communicate with the server. Registry errors shouldnt effect anything. Lower ping is good, 28ms is pretty good. Though that is just the ping to that server, it doesnt mean that that is the ping to every server. (so while speedtest.net is a useful tool, it is not that accurate)

Instead of using speedtest to test latency, I open up a command shell and ping my DNS server.

Mine's around 200 megabytes (190 195) download and near 20 megabytes upload according to speedtest so I'm good :thumbsup:



How does that affect your net?

ISP tech here.

The guy you were speaking with seems to have confused Bandwith with your download allowance...

On your speeds, all things when it comes to broadband are local, all I know is you're in Canada, I don't really know the market, or if you're in a major city or an urban area- but that said you're results look pretty reasonable, there's plenty of technical folk here in small and medium sized towns that would be quite happy with those results.

When we talk about internet speed, we're not usually talking about speed as such. Your "Download Speed" isn't how fast your broadband is, think of it instead like a pipe, a faster download speed does not increase the speed of the water in the pipe, instead it increases the width of the pipe meaning in effect if you're fillin g something bigger than the size of the pipe ( a bucket), the bucket will fill faster. Latency is the length of time it takes to get from one end of the pipe to another (so can be thought of as the speed of the water).

For Gaming, Latency is king, as long as your download and upload speed is reasonable,. For hosting a server, Upload speed is more important than normal.

If you're running a server, your major bottleneck is going to be in the upload. If this is something you're going to be doing a lot of, it may be worthwhile to see if there's anything that can be done to improve upload (I would suggest making sure you're talking to tech support, not accounts folk), sometimes business accounts offer a faster upload.

I'd also suggest if at all possible get off wireless, and get yourself an Ethernet Cable instead. it might seem a move backwards, but wireless is more suseptable to interference than a cable, this can reduce your download speed and latency - although your latency isnt a problem at the moment, if you or your neighbours start buying other wireless decices (cordless phones, AV senders, baby monitors, etc) then this can get worse quickly.

With the download speed, presuming your on an ADSL service, make sure your modem/router is connected to the first phone socket in the house (where the cable from outside comes in). Make sure the cable you use is as short as possible, and all sockets are filtered. Some people report improvements when using expensive cables, I've seen faster speeds on an expensive 10m cable than a cheap 1m cable, but your milage if any may vary and they may be simply to expensve to be feasable.

He's saying that if the ISP doesn't offer tools to monitor your bandwidth then those are two solutions.

My laptop has 4gb memory. I am pretty sure that is more then good enough.

20Mbps upload speed? Where the hell are you getting your internet from?

Caps mean you pay out the butt when you go over your limit, or your speed is heavily throttled. One hurts you economically, the other hurts your throughput.

The two tools I mentioned would allow you to monitor your usage and thus better manage your bandwidth to fit within your cap.