What is the best way to make download speed test app using swift3?

Question

I'm using the code below snapped from this question Right way of determining internet speed in iOS 8 to make speed test in my app but when make a test and compare with the speed test tool http://www.speedtest.net/ the result of my app is less than the speedTest.net by half if my app speed result 1mbps the speedtest.net result is 2mbps or more

class ViewController: UIViewController, NSURLSessionDelegate, NSURLSessionDataDelegate {

override func viewDidLoad() {
    super.viewDidLoad()

    testDownloadSpeedWithTimout(5.0) { (megabytesPerSecond, error) -> () in
        print("\(megabytesPerSecond); \(error)")
    }
}

var startTime: CFAbsoluteTime!
var stopTime: CFAbsoluteTime!
var bytesReceived: Int!
var speedTestCompletionHandler: ((megabytesPerSecond: Double?, error: NSError?) -> ())!

func testDownloadSpeedWithTimout(timeout: NSTimeInterval, completionHandler:(megabytesPerSecond: Double?, error: NSError?) -> ()) {
    let url = NSURL(string: "http://insert.your.site.here/yourfile")!

    startTime = CFAbsoluteTimeGetCurrent()
    stopTime = startTime
    bytesReceived = 0
    speedTestCompletionHandler = completionHandler

    let configuration = NSURLSessionConfiguration.ephemeralSessionConfiguration()
    configuration.timeoutIntervalForResource = timeout
    let session = NSURLSession(configuration: configuration, delegate: self, delegateQueue: nil)
    session.dataTaskWithURL(url).resume()
}

func URLSession(session: NSURLSession, dataTask: NSURLSessionDataTask, didReceiveData data: NSData) {
    bytesReceived! += data.length
    stopTime = CFAbsoluteTimeGetCurrent()
}

func URLSession(session: NSURLSession, task: NSURLSessionTask, didCompleteWithError error: NSError?) {
    let elapsed = stopTime - startTime
    guard elapsed != 0 && (error == nil || (error?.domain == NSURLErrorDomain && error?.code == NSURLErrorTimedOut)) else {
        speedTestCompletionHandler(megabytesPerSecond: nil, error: error)
        return
    }

    let speed = elapsed != 0 ? Double(bytesReceived) / elapsed / 1024.0 / 1024.0 : -1
    speedTestCompletionHandler(megabytesPerSecond: speed, error: nil)
}

}

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 22 '17 at 11:50

I put my file in different servers and each one give me different result so the problem is the speed result depends on the server the you download from and the solution is to have file in multi servers and detect the best server for the client and download from it.

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Nov 13 '20 at 13:33

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Your code seems to test speed using single thread and that may be one of the main reasons why it measures lower results.

Speedtest.net and most of the testers such us ours as well use multithreaded approach. This is a better way to estimate capacity of the internet link.

You can find iOS SDK which will perform multi-threaded measurement here:

https://github.com/speedchecker/speedchecker-sdk-ios

answered Nov 13 '20 at 13:33

Janusz

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How does multithreading improve download speed? It is almost never the CPU that's the bottleneck. We are assuming here that the server can saturate the link, of course. – Thomas Nov 13 '20 at 13:38
You are right its not about the CPU bottleneck. Its about the inability to saturate the connection with single download thread (or upload). This situation is more apparent on higher speeds, e.g. while 100 Mbit connection can be saturated with 3 paralel download threads. 1Gbit may need a lot more threads to saturate. In our SDK we add an additional thread each time we reach additional increment of 100 Mb/s – Janusz Nov 14 '20 at 10:58

What is the best way to make download speed test app using swift3?

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