Internet connection speed

[theMusicMan]

Hi All

OK, so I am curious s to if there is a limit on the maximum speed the RPi4 will handle vis-a-vis broadband speed download tests?

I have a 350MBPS service with Virgin Media, and when I run the test frmo speedtest.net on either or my Mac machines, I get a result of 378mbps, but when I run the same test from the same site on the RPi4, I get only a 3rd of this at 106mpbs.

Now for sure, this is a pretty darned good speed to be fair, but is there a reason the RPi4 won't download at the same speeds as the other devices on my network?

I am using an ethernet connection with CAT6 cable for all the tests, checked first on my MBP, then used the same cable on my RPi4 with these very different results.

Could someone advise if this is normal please. Many thanks.

John

[trejan]

The GUI version has issues when running on the Pi Chromium browser. Install the CLI version of speedtest using "pip3 install speedtest-cli" and run it as just "speedtest-cli". You should get a more accurate reading.

[theMusicMan]

Thanks for the prompt response, I get...

The scripts speedtest and speedtest-cli are installed in '/home/pi/.local/bin' which is not on PATH.
Consider adding this directory to PATH or, if you prefer to suppress this warning, use --no-warn-script-location.

Any easy way to add this path to PATH?

[trejan]

Run "pip3 uninstall speedtest-cli" then "sudo pip3 install speedtest-cli" and it'll install it to /usr/local/bin instead which should be in your path already.

[theMusicMan]

You're a superstar, many thanks.

So I did this and yet the results are still falling short of what i would have expected... at 185 Mbit/s dl.

I'll live with it for now though, maybe taking another look tomorrow or the day after. Many thanks for your help... much appreciated.

PS: Bought the RPi4 a few weeks ago but have only this evening taken it out of the box and got it all up and running, this darned Covid-19 lockdown has given me a bit more time to set things up.

Hope you and family are all well.