[162161] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Speedtest Results speedtest.net vs Mikrotik bandwidth test
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mike)
Thu Apr 4 04:14:22 2013
Date: Thu, 04 Apr 2013 01:14:09 -0700
From: Mike <mike-nanog@tiedyenetworks.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <49250.1365025680@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 04/03/2013 02:48 PM, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
> On Wed, 03 Apr 2013 14:07:48 -0700, Mike said:
>
>> These speedtests are pure unscientific bs and I'd love to see them
>> called out on the carpet for it.
>
> As far as I know, it's possible for the end-to-end reported values to be
> lower than your immediate upstream due to issues further upstream.
>
> But if it reports 20MBbits/sec down and 5MBits/sec up, then the link is
> able to go *at least* that fast.
>
> (If anybody's got evidence of it reporting more than the link is technically
> capable of, feel free to correct me...)
Yeah, I do... I've had T1 lines reported at 4.7mbps down and 2.8mbps up.
These tests are hogwash.
Mike-
