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Re: Speedtest Results speedtest.net vs Mikrotik bandwidth test
From: Seth Mattinen <sethm () rollernet us>
Date: Wed, 03 Apr 2013 18:34:07 -0700
On 4/3/13 6:25 PM, Warren Bailey wrote:
I'm shocked Ookla hasn't been eaten by some major ISP. Speed tests are the root of most complaints. Your link is congested (oversubed) and you then attempt to completely saturate your bandwidth to tell your provider what a suck job they are doing. I can't imagine wireless isps or those with limited bandwidth haven't black holed those kind of performance tools. My world (satellite) is plagued by people who are speed testing very narrow band connections and expecting 15mbps down. They don't realize Speedtest is not an accurate representation of your connection as you cannot influence your bandwidth upstream. Ds3 from you to your 56k modem type of scenario comes to mind. It may *not* be your provider who is responsible for your issues (some people Speedtest just to call their provider to complain for service credits etc).
In my case I know the gig connection between me and that transit is nowhere near saturated and works OK, so I have to assume the server they're hosting speedtest.net on is either constantly hosed or uses a 10Base-T interface, possibly token ring. ~Seth
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- Speedtest Results speedtest.net vs Mikrotik bandwidth test Lorell Hathcock (Apr 01)
- Re: Speedtest Results speedtest.net vs Mikrotik bandwidth test Justin M. Streiner (Apr 01)
- RE: Speedtest Results speedtest.net vs Mikrotik bandwidth test Lorell Hathcock (Apr 02)
- Re: Speedtest Results speedtest.net vs Mikrotik bandwidth test Carlos Alcantar (Apr 02)
- Re: Speedtest Results speedtest.net vs Mikrotik bandwidth test Seth Mattinen (Apr 02)
- Re: Speedtest Results speedtest.net vs Mikrotik bandwidth test Mike (Apr 03)
- Re: Speedtest Results speedtest.net vs Mikrotik bandwidth test Valdis . Kletnieks (Apr 03)
- RE: Speedtest Results speedtest.net vs Mikrotik bandwidth test Paul Stewart (Apr 03)
- Re: Speedtest Results speedtest.net vs Mikrotik bandwidth test Seth Mattinen (Apr 03)
- Re: Speedtest Results speedtest.net vs Mikrotik bandwidth test Warren Bailey (Apr 03)
- Re: Speedtest Results speedtest.net vs Mikrotik bandwidth test Seth Mattinen (Apr 03)
- Re: Speedtest Results speedtest.net vs Mikrotik bandwidth test Warren Bailey (Apr 04)
- Re: Speedtest Results speedtest.net vs Mikrotik bandwidth test Carl Rosevear (Apr 04)
- RE: Speedtest Results speedtest.net vs Mikrotik bandwidth test Lorell Hathcock (Apr 02)
- Re: Speedtest Results speedtest.net vs Mikrotik bandwidth test joel jaeggli (Apr 04)
- Re: Speedtest Results speedtest.net vs Mikrotik bandwidth test Mikael Abrahamsson (Apr 04)
- Re: Speedtest Results speedtest.net vs Mikrotik bandwidth test Valdis . Kletnieks (Apr 04)
- Re: Speedtest Results speedtest.net vs Mikrotik bandwidth test Mikael Abrahamsson (Apr 04)
- Re: Speedtest Results speedtest.net vs Mikrotik bandwidth test Valdis . Kletnieks (Apr 04)
- Re: Speedtest Results speedtest.net vs Mikrotik bandwidth test Justin M. Streiner (Apr 01)
- Re: Speedtest Results speedtest.net vs Mikrotik bandwidth test Ben Aitchison (Apr 03)
- Re: Speedtest Results speedtest.net vs Mikrotik bandwidth test Nick Hilliard (Apr 03)
- Re: Speedtest Results speedtest.net vs Mikrotik bandwidth test Warren Bailey (Apr 03)