Speed test - affected by old and low spec equipement

[Kawazuki]

I have been testing my broadband speed on a PC.  It is 10 years old and has this processor:   AMD A6 3500 Tri Core 2.1GHz.  Would the PC be  be capable of the speed testing I am doing?  I am using Ookla and getting about 450Mbps but it should (according to Virgin) be around a Gig. PC connects via a 25 metre cat6 cable.

Also there is and unmanaged switch in the line, when testing no other traffic would have been going through it. It has 1Gb ports but maybe being a cheapo item it isn't capable of throughput?  It is a D-Link DGS-1008D.

Any comments welcome,

[deanwebb]

We had gig speeds on PCs 10 years ago. Yours should be fine - it's not the processor that limits speed.

Your Internet provider would have you test speed directly from the modem, with no device in between.

For my Internet, I'm getting 600-700 Mbps down and 30-40 up, as it's cable internet. If you are on fiber it should be very close to 1Gbps up and down UNLESS there are lots of other households sharing the line. If you get faster speeds when everyone in your neighborhood is asleep, then you have a shared connection that impacts performance.