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Re: Speed Test

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Post by Aachen »

capableweb wrote: post #92
Aachen wrote: post #86

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Here in Europe it's all equally fast. I don't remember ever having a throttled service, that sounds like a page out of the dystopian scenarios produced in the era where net neutrality legislation was being proposed/promoted ten years ago or something. There were rumors back then that bittorrent was being throttled (and corresponding protocol obfuscation and port changing) but I never had that myself

> Here in Europe it's all equally fast Well, Europe has lots of different countries and I've definitely been in countries that are considered to be in Europe where it's not equally fast, and using a VPN can speed up a lot of things.

TIL. I thought net neutrality legislation was EU-wide actually. Or maybe it is, but not every European country is in the EU, so good point

Re: Speed Test

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Post by Aachen »

jgtrosh wrote: post #88
Aachen wrote: post #86

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Here in Europe it's all equally fast. I don't remember ever having a throttled service, that sounds like a page out of the dystopian scenarios produced in the era where net neutrality legislation was being proposed/promoted ten years ago or something. There were rumors back then that bittorrent was being throttled (and corresponding protocol obfuscation and port changing) but I never had that myself

Fast.com was created specifically to pinpoint the throttling that was actively applied to Netflix in many occurrences back then. It seems to be mostly gone, especially since streaming video now accounts for >50% of web traffic you can't easily throttle it and hope no one notices.

In the USA specifically, I thought? Or which other regions has that happened in? I remember Comcast specifically having a monopoly in many areas and being able to pressure Netflix into getting money from both sides of the fiber (consumers and service providers)

Re: Speed Test

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Post by waynesonfire »

madeofpalk wrote: post #101

Great, one more speedtest site to pit against all the others. On my gigabyte fibre: Cloudflare: 697 down / 645 up fast.com: 860 down / 440 up Google: 760 down / 347 up Ookla speedtest: 841 down / 827 up Quite a large variability in upload speeds, which isn't all the surprising I guess. Network providers often don't really need to prioritise upload traffic...

cloudflare: 863 down / 57 / up

ookla speedtest: 940 up / 750 down

Re: Speed Test

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Post by badrequest »

I ran the test from Austin, and it showed the test server as located at the Dallas Airport. I wonder how they decided on which landmarks to represent each data center.

Re: Speed Test

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Post by NelsonMinar »

The interesting thing about this to me is its repeated sampling and reporting of a statistical profile of the link. Showing distributions for latency and speed, not just a single average. Really helpful info on less-consistent connections like Starlink.

Example screenshot here: https://postimg.cc/bDTyy8BM

Re: Speed Test

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Post by 6bb32646d83d »

Upload results are off for me. I have a 1gbps down/up fiber.

With this speed test, the results are 900mbps down, 400-500mbps up (ran a few tests to confirm)

I tried running fast.com, speedtest.net, google speed test and verizon speed test (I'm on AT&T), they all show ~950mbps down and up

Re: Speed Test

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Post by theandrewbailey »

badrequest wrote: post #114

I ran the test from Austin, and it showed the test server as located at the Dallas Airport. I wonder how they decided on which landmarks to represent each data center.

Cloudflare represents each datacenter by the nearest airport code, even though it's not literally at the airport.

https://developers.cloudflare.com/support/troubleshooting/ge...

Re: Speed Test

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Post by xyzelement »

I recently discovered the networkquality tool on Mac. As far as I can tell it's the only tool that measures simultaneous upload and download speeds which is more reflective of real world video conferencing use cases.

I was using it to see if my new hardcore gaming router gave me better range than the old one. On isolated up and down tests, it did. But on combined tests, the advantage especially for upload disappeared.

Re: Speed Test

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Post by awslattery »

This has been my go-to over Fast.com for years. The breakdown of latencies and speeds at different thresholds was very beneficial in validating the behavior of our 5G Home Internet through Verizon.

Re: Speed Test

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Post by dboreham »

edent wrote: post #6

Tried on several devices - it consistently under-reads. I'm on 500Mbps broadband. Ookla and fast.com show 350Mbps via WiFi. Cloudflare only 274Mbps. Similar results on Ethernet. Over 400Mbps on a proper speed test. Can't hit 300 on this. I assume their downstream is capped?

Odd to see several posts like this, nobody considering that the other tests they've run might be "over-reading".
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