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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...
> On my gigabyte fibre: *gigabit Get it right already.
That one uses Netflix servers, so you get a valid test as long as your ISP isn't throttling Netflix. Of course they created it so that people would call their ISP and complain they aren't getting the speed they pay for, but it turns out it's a pretty good test most of the time.
And most importantly, it isn't prioritized like speedtest.net.
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Cloudflare's speed test doesn't have a graph for latency under load, but it shows those numbers while the test is running. But you can find those graphs in Cloudflare Radar. Half of the https://radar.cloudflare.com/quality section is based on speed test data.
I see a graphical visualization of latency with multiple points and error bars. Maybe "graph" isn't the right technical term? Edit: It's a box and whisker plot: https://www.khanacademy.org/math/statistics-probability/summ...
Is there a cli tool for this aswell or just the website? At home I have my server run a speedtest (ookla for now) running every 30 minutes because I do not trust my ISP to keep their end of the deal. I visualize the results with grafana and would love to change over to this. As haivri points out, this is a very detailed report! EDIT: Apparently there is a nodejs module available https://github.com/cloudflare/speedtes…
603Mbps Cloudflare chrome vs. 600 Mbps Cloudflare firefox
But on fast.com (netflix) it's the opposite:
440 Mbps fast.com Chrome vs. 590 Mbps fast.com firefox.
The level of detail is very nice, I wish more tools exposed this as easily. That said, please remember this is a test of you through your ISP to a (hopefully) nearby Cloudflare node. It isn't necessarily testing 'the Internet', since Cloudflare sometimes has creative peering relationships to origins that are not being measured here. Also, for the people complaining they only have 300 Mb/s -- unless you are streaming…
> Also, for the people complaining they only have 300 Mb/s -- unless you are streaming multiple 4K movies there is nothing faster about having more bandwidth. You should care about latency, packet loss, and cache hit rate. Haven’t downloaded any 150+ GB games (or patches even these days) off of Steam lately I see
Sure it would be nice for those few instances, but those are not worth the additional cost for almost any individual or family if they actually work out the time saved waiting.
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
I think this is great service, and here is another one that Netflix provides: https://fast.com That one uses Netflix servers, so you get a valid test as long as your ISP isn't throttling Netflix. Of course they created it so that people would call their ISP and complain they aren't getting the speed they pay for, but it turns out it's a pretty good test most of the time. And most importantly, it isn't prioritized lik…
speedtest.net should tell you if the physical installation of your cable was done properly - nothing more.
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> Also, for the people complaining they only have 300 Mb/s -- unless you are streaming multiple 4K movies there is nothing faster about having more bandwidth. You should care about latency, packet loss, and cache hit rate. Haven’t downloaded any 150+ GB games (or patches even these days) off of Steam lately I see
Yeah. Comcast is shorting me by a solid 50Mb/s and this is the reason it's annoying. On top of the fact that their garbage excuse for a website is literally completely broken. Every time I've tried to use it for the past year it just sticks me in a login loop. What a truly miserable company.
1Gb symmetric at both locations in NYC though and a free Xbox One S and $300 Visa giftcard.
They have essentially paid me to use them as my ISP, and contact from their support teams attempting to figure it out is getting increasingly infrequent