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Lots of people here have already mentioned the Netflix fast.com test, which is indeed good. But also worthy of recommendation IHMO is the Cloudflare one (speed.cloudflare.com). Main reason I say that is its one of the few that measures jitter (or at least openly exposes the measurement).
Yes, this is true. This is why Netflix runs fast.com: it serves Netflix content from Netflix servers, so if ISPs want to prioritize fast.com content they'll have to prioritize Netflix content as well. Of course, that doesn't help non-Netflix sites...
I was on the phone with a buddy trying to troubleshoot Local file transfer speeds vs Speedtest results. Speedtest kept reporting 100Mb/s range speeds (the tier he was paying for). Local file transfers however were stuck in the 1MB/s range. After some questions and troubleshooting he discovered that he had used a 10Mb/s hub instead of a 1Gb/s switch that was sitting right next to it. A simple mixup. His internet conne…
Ookla speedtest properly transfers data and divides to find throughput-- both with the website, the GUI app, and their CLI program. The open source speedtest-cli that uses their infrastructure is hampered by only one connection and can't seem to ever report higher than 300mbps.
Fast.com is ... a little optimistic about transients getting transfers started and sometimes reports numbers 5-10% too high.
Neither is grossly wrong by an order of magnitude. Maybe there was also wifi around and simultaneously connected, confounding the situation? Easy to end up in a situation where all your internet traffic is going over wifi (because e.g. your dhcp client replaces the default route with one going over the wifi interface), and all your local traffic goes over ethernet.
Another speedtester you can try: https://www.dslreports.com/speedtest
Lots of people here have already mentioned the Netflix fast.com test, which is indeed good. But also worthy of recommendation IHMO is the Cloudflare one (speed.cloudflare.com). Main reason I say that is its one of the few that measures jitter (or at least openly exposes the measurement).
Fast doesnt do upload
It does but it's hidden, you have to hit "Show more info" (once the main test has finished).
A bit stupid, but I'm sure some committee thought it was an awesome idea to do it that way.
I was on the phone with a buddy trying to troubleshoot Local file transfer speeds vs Speedtest results. Speedtest kept reporting 100Mb/s range speeds (the tier he was paying for). Local file transfers however were stuck in the 1MB/s range. After some questions and troubleshooting he discovered that he had used a 10Mb/s hub instead of a 1Gb/s switch that was sitting right next to it. A simple mixup. His internet conne…
Ha! I'm currently down the rabbithole of trying to understand why when connected through nordvpn, i'm seeing ~5% faster download and ~10% lower ping latency to speedtest.net when connected to an in-country vpn endpoint. Does not compute. Compression? I can't explain the lower ping, traffic shaping?
I was cursing on my ISP for a long time till I understood that Im on a 100Mbit wifi. Then added a wire connection to my server and instantly 10x the speed :^] Dont be like me, have wires set up everywhere where needed.
This holds true in the same room and one room over.
I like this.