LibreELEC vs Android Speedtest Difference

I am wondering why there appears to be a significant difference in download speeds between using LE and Android when running speed tests of my 37Mb internet connection.

LibreELEC - download speed around 7.5Mb

I have tested the following combinations, all of which produce similiar results:

- Bqeel X8T (S905X 2G/16G 100Mb) and LE 7.0.2.009, LE 7.0.3.0012g, LE 7.9 beta4 - all fresh installs booted from SD.
- RPi2 and LE 7.0.3
- RPi2 and OpenELEC 7.0.1

Android - download speed around 35Mb

- Bqeel X8T and Android 6.0
- Amazon Fire TV box

In all my tests the box is hardwired using the same cat5 cable and the same Kodi addon to perform the speedtest.

Has anybody else experienced such a difference in download speeds between LE and Android?

Quote from Klojum

With the LibreELEC builds and OE 7.0.1, are you using only an SD card to run the OS as well as a download location?
With Android, are you downloading onto the internal eMMC/NAND disc?

That would explain some of the differences.

The LE/OE builds are running from the SD card and Android from internal eMMC. Would it explain a five fold difference though?

The Kodi addon uses the Ookla Speedtest which I presume would just discard the downloaded data rather than attempt to write anything to disk.

I've just repeated the test using a Windows/Kodi laptop and the result is the same as the Android tests - 35Mb.

Quote from ozolli

LE ~7.9 running on a Asrock N3150 Beebox. 54Mbps internet connection :

Code

LibreELEC:~ # speedtest-cli
Retrieving speedtest.net configuration...
Retrieving speedtest.net server list...
Testing from Orange (86.213.194.38)...
Selecting best server based on ping...
Hosted by TestDebit.info (Limoges) [189.94 km]: 222.683 ms
Testing download speed........................................
Download: 49.40 Mbit/s
Testing upload speed..................................................
Upload: 14.59 Mbit/s

Just fine !
Could have been up to the 54Mbps but the kid viewing a 1080p cartoon at the same time.

Run from LE 7.0.3.012g on Bqeel X8T (S905X 2G/16G 100M).

[hr]
LibreELEC:~ # ./speedtest
Retrieving speedtest.net configuration...
Testing from BT (146.198.185.202)...
Retrieving speedtest.net server list...
Selecting best server based on ping...
Hosted by SoftLayer Technologies, Inc. (London) [28.08 km]: 29.669 ms
Testing download speed...............................................................................
.Download: 7.58 Mbit/s
Testing upload speed....................................................................................................
Upload: 1.86 Mbit/s
LibreELEC:~ #
[hr]

Still nowhere near what's achieved using Android on the same box.

Quote from garcea

Hi,

By the way, how fast it's your microsd card?
I have a SanDisk Ultra 16Gb 80mb/533x UHS-I, I'm happy with it. Never did a speed test with the box. I"ll run some tests and be back with data.

I'm using an unbranded 16Gb Class 10 microSD card for my testing.

I don't think the SD card is the issue as I've loaded Armbian 5.24 from that card and speed tests report download speeds of 35Mb i.e. the same as I was getting with Android.

Quote from garcea

Latest data:
For usb to ethernet I've used a Edimax usb3.0 usb-to-ethernet adapter. The 4k's played very smoothly.

Hi

I have now installed LE 7.0.3.0012 on eMMC and speedtest stills reports a download speed around 3.5Mb whereas for Armbian on a SD card it is 35Mb.

However I have also run a wget of 100Mb file from LE and Armbian and both report a download rate of 4Mb/s.

My box with LE only buffers occasionally so perhaps I shouldn't be worrying about speed testing.

Thanks for your help.