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Not bad.
EDIT: And they secured a fantastic domain.
Speed testing is a good starting point, but on my LTE connection (rural area) I find the latency to be very contributor to overall experience. Especially that once the link is saturated the latency shoots through the roof (up to x10). I wish there were some tools for testing more complex use cases.
Sounds like bufferbloat to me. Tried using smart queue management like fq_codel on your end? Or is it an overloaded LTE cell?
1. When will someone build a tool like this and then open up the measurements data? A speed-measuring tool would be infinitely more useful if we could investigate the results beyond just our one device for one test. A question I really want to be able to answer: which ISP offers the fastest service in my area? fast.com and speedtest.net could easily answer this question if they made the data available. 2. I think tes…
>I think tests like this that rely on a built-out network and well-placed CDNs and such are probably junk. Depends on the goal - here Netflix wants to see how fast you can stream from their "built-out network and well placed CDNs" so testing those is completely relevant. For their purposes, testing a bunch of unoptimized and unrelated services would be "junk".
Absolutely right; but also in this case, Netflix' and the average downloader's needs align, given that the bulk (by share of bytes) of legal speed-sensitive downstream traffic is video.
1. When will someone build a tool like this and then open up the measurements data? A speed-measuring tool would be infinitely more useful if we could investigate the results beyond just our one device for one test. A question I really want to be able to answer: which ISP offers the fastest service in my area? fast.com and speedtest.net could easily answer this question if they made the data available. 2. I think tes…
1. When will someone build a tool like this and then open up the measurements data? A speed-measuring tool would be infinitely more useful if we could investigate the results beyond just our one device for one test. A question I really want to be able to answer: which ISP offers the fastest service in my area? fast.com and speedtest.net could easily answer this question if they made the data available. 2. I think tes…
I'm firmly untrusting of Comcast's results on speedtest.. If Comcast is intentionally throttling, it's in their interest to not throttle Speedtest. However if we can monitor real data.. that actually seems useful.
I understand that would likely require additional resources from video/etc providers, and is likely an unrealistic request from video/etc providers.. but i definitely don't need more test sites for Comcast to manipulate.
Disclaimer: I don't know the subject domain, so apologies if i'm insanely off base.
First, I thought why another speed test, then I saw that they link their results directly to speedtest.net (the reference) and finally, I realized that fast.com is so much faster in detecting the download speed (but lacks upload and ping). Not bad. EDIT: And they secured a fantastic domain.
1. When will someone build a tool like this and then open up the measurements data? A speed-measuring tool would be infinitely more useful if we could investigate the results beyond just our one device for one test. A question I really want to be able to answer: which ISP offers the fastest service in my area? fast.com and speedtest.net could easily answer this question if they made the data available. 2. I think tes…
Granted we do not have many results in the US (maybe ballpark 200k+ results in last 6 months), still you should be able to find some results in your area.
Speed testing is a good starting point, but on my LTE connection (rural area) I find the latency to be very contributor to overall experience. Especially that once the link is saturated the latency shoots through the roof (up to x10). I wish there were some tools for testing more complex use cases.
Latency is largely irrelevant to one-way video streaming (at least until it's so high it affects throughput), and since Netflix designed this to test your speed for their one-way video streaming service I think leaving out latency testing is reasonable.
You can easily determine how much of a problem it is in your case by calculating your bandwidth delay product: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bandwidth-delay_product