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Where I am, ISPs have arrangements to give intra-country traffic higher speed than inter-country. The nearest cloudflare PoP this chooses is always inside the country, so it gives misleading result.
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Got a source for ISPs doing that for fast.com? Fast.com is netflix, so the same argument applies there - if you get 300mbps on fast.com you should get it on netflix too
This is why Netflix runs fast.com, so that if an ISP wants to cheat on speed tests, people are still going to get those cheated speeds even when they stream real Netflix videos. Really clever.
Uff. Apparently gives correct readings mostly in Chrome only. I have a 500/500M connection and on the same computer Chrome gives 465/364 and Firefox has 311/303M. EDIT: this was on Linux/intel. On Mac M1Pro it Chrome/FF/Safari all get pretty much the same numbers. Both computers have wired ethernet.
Pretty much spot on for me. 2gig/1gig fiber internet and I got 1.95 Gbps/960 Mbps
Genuine question: what’s it like having internet that fast?
Because I get 40-50Mbps down and ~16 Mbps down on that tool, and I have fibre to the property (yay, Australia) and I’m so curious to know what’s it like to have a connection that’s actually good.
Uff. Apparently gives correct readings mostly in Chrome only. I have a 500/500M connection and on the same computer Chrome gives 465/364 and Firefox has 311/303M. EDIT: this was on Linux/intel. On Mac M1Pro it Chrome/FF/Safari all get pretty much the same numbers. Both computers have wired ethernet.
btw, on macOS, you can just enter `networkQuality` into your terminal for a speed test. No third-party website or tool of any kind needed, it's a built-in mac CLI.
Who's it measuring against? An (internet) speed test by its nature requires some remote third-party, if you aren't just testing to your own server
EDIT: fast.com is showing 1Gbps. There's no way that's true.
Uff. Apparently gives correct readings mostly in Chrome only. I have a 500/500M connection and on the same computer Chrome gives 465/364 and Firefox has 311/303M. EDIT: this was on Linux/intel. On Mac M1Pro it Chrome/FF/Safari all get pretty much the same numbers. Both computers have wired ethernet.
In an effort to improve security, browsers reduce fidelity & accuracy on results from the `performance.now()` timer methods. If you attempt to call `performance.now()`, and then call it again within 100 microseconds, your second result isn't guaranteed to be in the future compared to the first result.
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Performance...
If you're implementing a speedtest feature, you'd likely run `performance.now()` iteratively as your high-resolution-timer, and compare that to the number of bytes downloaded. Browsers that perform more significant coarsing will return worse metric-per-second results in that scenario.
305 Mbps for me. Cringy how slow internet connetivity is in the UK.
When I lived in a small town, my 500Mbps would give me >400Mbps consistently.
