[123634] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: FCC releases Internet speed test tool
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bret Clark)
Fri Mar 12 09:46:13 2010
Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2010 09:45:38 -0500
From: Bret Clark <bclark@spectraaccess.com>
To: "nanog@nanog.org list" <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <201003121424.o2CEO9Ga093249@aurora.sol.net>
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Joe Greco wrote:
>
> I've gotten strange stuff each time I've tried their tests. I
> particularly like the factor of 10 difference in upload speeds.
>
> ... JG
>
Yeah...these test are algorithm based and rarely accurate! On our
100Mbps Internet connection (which I know handles 100Mbps) best I could
get is 10Mbps down and 14Mbps up.
Wish someone would come up with a much better mouse trap. The only test
I've ever found to be fairly accurate is iperf or a simple FTP test.
