[162146] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Speedtest Results speedtest.net vs Mikrotik bandwidth test
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chris Hindy)
Wed Apr 3 20:20:43 2013
From: Chris Hindy <chindy@lwpca.net>
To: Nick Hilliard <nick@foobar.org>, "Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu"
<Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu>
Date: Thu, 4 Apr 2013 00:20:29 +0000
In-Reply-To: <98EBD33E-46B1-4B6A-9459-99800BFFBCBA@foobar.org>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
I can run two speedtest.net session side by side on my home network on one
laptop, and over VPN to my employer's Long Island locale on a second,
pointed at the same speedtest server, over the same wifi and ADSL and have
the VPN connection report speeds that are (a) 50% better on VPN than not;
and, (b) exceed my ADSL's hard cap by 10+ mbps. That smells a bit fishy
to me, all in all.
-c
On 03-04-2013 18:02 , "Nick Hilliard" <nick@foobar.org> wrote:
>On 3 Apr 2013, at 22:48, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
>> (If anybody's got evidence of it reporting more than the link is
>>technically
>> capable of, feel free to correct me...)
>
>I've seen speedtest.net give results significantly greater than the
>physical bw of the client's network link.
>
>Nick
>
>
