[162148] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Speedtest Results speedtest.net vs Mikrotik bandwidth test
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Seth Mattinen)
Wed Apr 3 21:12:24 2013
Date: Wed, 03 Apr 2013 18:12:10 -0700
From: Seth Mattinen <sethm@rollernet.us>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <002e01ce30b5$88f69bc0$9ae3d340$@paulstewart.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 4/3/13 2:52 PM, Paul Stewart wrote:
> We host one of the gazillion speed test sites and for networks that are
> close to us we find it "reasonably accurate" .. a good benchmark at least ..
>
The speedtest.net that's hosted on one of my directly connected transits
is consistently wrong, which is always fun. But the customers cling to
those results like it's the word of God.
~Seth
