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Thats actually not an accurate number of your connection speed to what is called "the internet cloud"
The only way to get an accurate speed test of what your service is providing you is by doing a speed test hosted on a machine inside your providers network that connects you to "the internet cloud"
The speed your showing is the speed your getting to that particular machine. Your connection to the gateway machine inside your providers network could be much faster and not register because the speed test exists outside of it.
We had a problem with customers (i used to work for charter communications) complaining they were not getting speed they payed for here in georgia so the company put a server at the head distribution point for speed tests to show accurate tests across network speed. So people saying Im paying for 3 kbps and only getting 900k on a speed test would be able to see that they were in fact getting 3k, often times more inside the network we provided, and once they left the network to a server outside to access the speedtest it wasnt technically our connection speed they were seeing.
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