[103599] in North American Network Operators' Group
Speedtest site accuracy [was: Bandwidth issues in the Sprint network]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Scott Weeks)
Tue Apr 8 14:24:29 2008
Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2008 11:15:58 -0700
From: "Scott Weeks" <surfer@mauigateway.com>
Reply-To: <surfer@mauigateway.com>
To: <nanog@merit.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
--- mevans@alphatheory.com wrote:
Try using the Java test on DSLReports rather than the Flash based test. I've found it to be much more accurate. I also receive the message about compression being used when I test with the flash test. I think it may be a bug.
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This brings up a PITA point for me. Recently, I have seen a rash of "Speedsite test server at <location> says blah, blah, blah" tickets finally reach me and I am telling everyone they're not an accurate way to measure network performance. I notice that at least some are just sending text in Latin.
To other medium-sized eyeball network providers (I'm defining medium size as 50-150K DSL/Cable connections and 50-1500 leased line customers): are you seeing this and what do you tell your customers?
scott
