[147834] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Speed Test Results
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Stewart)
Fri Dec 23 08:09:03 2011
From: "Paul Stewart" <paul@paulstewart.org>
To: "'jacob miller'" <mmzinyi@yahoo.com>,
<nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <1324631920.7845.YahooMailNeo@web39508.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2011 08:07:58 -0500
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
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
