[162150] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Speedtest Results speedtest.net vs Mikrotik bandwidth test
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Warren Bailey)
Wed Apr 3 21:25:56 2013
From: Warren Bailey <wbailey@satelliteintelligencegroup.com>
To: Seth Mattinen <sethm@rollernet.us>, "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Thu, 4 Apr 2013 01:25:38 +0000
In-Reply-To: <515CD36A.1000603@rollernet.us>
Reply-To: Warren Bailey <wbailey@satelliteintelligencegroup.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
I'm shocked Ookla hasn't been eaten by some major ISP. Speed tests are the =
root of most complaints. Your link is congested (oversubed) and you then at=
tempt to completely saturate your bandwidth to tell your provider what a su=
ck job they are doing. I can't imagine wireless isps or those with limited =
bandwidth haven't black holed those kind of performance tools. My world (s=
atellite) is plagued by people who are speed testing very narrow band conne=
ctions and expecting 15mbps down. They don't realize Speedtest is not an ac=
curate representation of your connection as you cannot influence your bandw=
idth upstream. Ds3 from you to your 56k modem type of scenario comes to min=
d. It may *not* be your provider who is responsible for your issues (some p=
eople Speedtest just to call their provider to complain for service credits=
etc).
Sent from my T-Mobile 4G LTE Device
-------- Original message --------
From: Seth Mattinen <sethm@rollernet.us>
Date: 04/03/2013 6:13 PM (GMT-08:00)
To: nanog@nanog.org
Subject: Re: Speedtest Results speedtest.net vs Mikrotik bandwidth test
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
