[147898] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Speed Test Results
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sean Harlow)
Sun Dec 25 22:08:03 2011
From: Sean Harlow <sean@seanharlow.info>
In-Reply-To: <CAPiURgVgTqz1RQWviTH-xVi91Bt2BS6XZnTAMnNzqTWpomh7Ww@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 25 Dec 2011 22:06:56 -0500
To: Grant Ridder <shortdudey123@gmail.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org, jacob miller <mmzinyi@yahoo.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Basically it's a CYA statement on the part of Ookla/speedtest.net, since =
their test sites are of varying quality. The Radnor, OH test site =
sometimes can't even properly test a 10mbit SOHO broadband connection, =
where the Toledo site is consistently able to flood every available bit =
of capacity on my 50/5 home connection.
It's just another tool that needs to be used intelligently. If I'm =
testing out a new ISP or a new speed level I've never had before, I =
wouldn't immediately complain if I didn't get the expected result on a =
public speed test site as it may be something outside of my ISP's =
control. On the other hand if things start dragging on my home =
connection or anywhere else that I know I can expect a certain result =
speedtest.net is usually my first stop.
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Sean Harlow
sean@seanharlow.info
On Dec 25, 2011, at 9:43 PM, Grant Ridder wrote:
> Even though the faq's say they are only good for residential usage, i =
have
> had no problems with it at school. My college has 2x 100 Mb circuits =
from
> TW. When i run speed tests (I use speedtest.net) with the campus =
empty, i
> can get around 95Mb up. The bottleneck is the school's 100Mb =
switches.
> When the campus is filled (during the week) i can normally get close =
to 40
> Mb down on a test.
>=20
> -Grant
