[162151] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Speedtest Results speedtest.net vs Mikrotik bandwidth test
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Seth Mattinen)
Wed Apr 3 21:34:20 2013
Date: Wed, 03 Apr 2013 18:34:07 -0700
From: Seth Mattinen <sethm@rollernet.us>
To: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <m7ixphqf7dv49cb0it1un18k.1365038735461@email.android.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 4/3/13 6:25 PM, Warren Bailey wrote:
> 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 attempt to completely saturate your bandwidth to tell your provider
> what a suck 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 (satellite) is plagued by people who are speed testing
> very narrow band connections and expecting 15mbps down. They don't
> realize Speedtest is not an accurate representation of your connection
> as you cannot influence your bandwidth upstream. Ds3 from you to your
> 56k modem type of scenario comes to mind. It may *not* be your provider
> who is responsible for your issues (some people Speedtest just to call
> their provider to complain for service credits etc).
>
In my case I know the gig connection between me and that transit is
nowhere near saturated and works OK, so I have to assume the server
they're hosting speedtest.net on is either constantly hosed or uses a
10Base-T interface, possibly token ring.
~Seth
