[192979] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Favorite Speed Test Systems
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mike O'Connor)
Tue Dec 6 22:22:51 2016
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
Date: Tue, 6 Dec 2016 20:45:11 -0500
From: "Mike O'Connor" <mjo@dojo.mi.org>
To: North American Network Operators Group <nanog@nanog.org>
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:On 05-12-2016 16:34, Nick Ryce wrote:
:> For testing downloads, fast.com is pretty nice
:>=20
:
:The problem with fast.com is that they use HTTPS for the test. The user ne=
eds
:a fast computer to decode the SSL at full speed. Even if you have a very f=
ast
:computer the test will max out at 100-200 Mbps because the Netflix servers
:are apparently not able to encode SSL any faster. Maybe we would get better
:speed if multiple SSL connections were used.
I've run into the opposite problem -- fast.com sporadically reporting
1+ Gbps times for circuits that are only 20-40 Mbps. There's no obvious
client-side issues -- no proxying, interesting browsers, etc. fast.com
is glitchy just often enough to give some friends of mine silly glee
when it misreports.
-Mike
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