# Should Youtube freeze at 100 Mbps? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [May 5, 2012, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-youtube-freeze-at-100-mbps/620945 "2012-05-05T01:50:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Terry\_Kennedy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c57346/32.png) [@Terry\_Kennedy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terry_Kennedy)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2012, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-youtube-freeze-at-100-mbps/620945/21 "2012-05-06T01:22:43Z")
> [@pulykamell](#): > > On [testmyspeed.com](http://testmyspeed.com), I get 4.4 Mb/s download. > On [speedtest.net](http://speedtest.net), I get 25.1 Mbps. > > Why is there such a huge discrepancy? I have a tiny PC\* that’s directly connected to my Internet backbone (I’m an ISP) and I just remoted in and got 6.66Mbit/sec from testmyspeed and 186.55Mbit/sec from speedtest. I can tell you that I definitely don’t prioritize traffic to myspeed (or anywhere else) and I doubt that the 50 or more gigabit or faster peers we have do, either. I think there’s something wrong with testmyspeed. - This is a MicroATX system with a puny Atom 330 CPU and a crab chip network interface. It doesn’t have the oomph to push more than 200Mbit/sec or so onto the wire. ---
**Author:** ![scott62](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@scott62](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scott62)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2012, 8:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-youtube-freeze-at-100-mbps/620945/22 "2012-05-06T08:08:02Z")
Speedtest tells me 17.78 mb/s TestMySpeed tells me 30.62 mb/s I pay for 30 mb broadband so I’m fairly happy with these results. Scott [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-youtube-freeze-at-100-mbps/620945.md?page=1)