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RE: Speed Test Results
From: "Paul Stewart" <paul () paulstewart org>
Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2011 08:07:58 -0500
In my opinion they are only "somewhat reliable" if they are on your network or very close to your network -we operate one of the speedtest.net sites and for our own eyeball traffic find it to be a "reasonable indicator" of what kind of speeds the customer is getting. To put it a different way, if a customer is getting 20X1 Internet service and the speedtest shows 17 X 0.8 then case closed - if they are getting a speedtest result of 5 X 0.5 then our helpdesk will take a further look - this is really in rough terms... Paul -----Original Message----- From: jacob miller [mailto:mmzinyi () yahoo com] Sent: Friday, December 23, 2011 4:19 AM To: nanog () nanog org Subject: Speed Test Results Hi, Am having a debate on the results of speed tests sites. Am interested in knowing the thoughts of different individuals in regards to this. Regards, Jacob
Current thread:
- Speed Test Results jacob miller (Dec 23)
- Re: Speed Test Results Leigh Porter (Dec 23)
- Re: Speed Test Results Bret Clark (Dec 23)
- Re: Speed Test Results Joe Maimon (Dec 23)
- RE: Speed Test Results Paul Stewart (Dec 23)
- Re: Speed Test Results Cutler James R (Dec 23)
- RE: Speed Test Results Brandon Kim (Dec 23)
- Re: Speed Test Results Cutler James R (Dec 23)
- Re: Speed Test Results C Tate Baumrucker (Dec 23)
- Re: Speed Test Results Octavio Alvarez (Dec 23)
- Re: Speed Test Results Alex Brooks (Dec 23)
- Re: Speed Test Results Livingood, Jason (Dec 23)
- Re: Speed Test Results Joel Maslak (Dec 28)
- Re: Speed Test Results Joel Maslak (Dec 23)
- Re: Speed Test Results Valdis . Kletnieks (Dec 23)
- Re: Speed Test Results Joel jaeggli (Dec 23)
(Thread continues...)
- Re: Speed Test Results Leigh Porter (Dec 23)