[162153] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Speedtest Results speedtest.net vs Mikrotik bandwidth test
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Warren Bailey)
Wed Apr 3 23:02:52 2013
From: Warren Bailey <wbailey@satelliteintelligencegroup.com>
To: Seth Mattinen <sethm@rollernet.us>, "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Thu, 4 Apr 2013 03:02:41 +0000
In-Reply-To: <515CD88F.4010409@rollernet.us>
Reply-To: Warren Bailey <wbailey@satelliteintelligencegroup.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
I guess the Speedtest servers near metro areas do probably get pretty beat =
up. Has anyone paid the Ookla ransom for their own public server? I'd be re=
ally curious to see what they peak at.
Sent from my T-Mobile 4G LTE Device
-------- Original message --------
From: Seth Mattinen <sethm@rollernet.us>
Date: 04/03/2013 6:36 PM (GMT-08:00)
To: nanog@nanog.org
Subject: Re: Speedtest Results speedtest.net vs Mikrotik bandwidth test
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
