may i suggest nettfart.no by the norwegian government as an alternative ? at least the name is fun
why is it named this? i'm guessing "fart" means something different in your language :-)
Accenture to acquire Ookla
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#32that's nuts, unless I'm missing something, it doesn't seem like those products are that mind blowingly complex... wow. Makes we want to try building my own for the hell of it. Downdetector in fact just seems to be a website catalog with essentially a guestbook and hit counter...
speedtest has a lot of volunteers hosting local servers, which you need to do a good last mile speed test.
that capilarity is not something you can achieve overnight.
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#33may i suggest nettfart.no by the norwegian government as an alternative ? at least the name is fun
fast.com is my go-to in the rare case I need to check network speed these days
I read a while ago that certain ISPs will optimize the traffic to Netflix's servers, and so when you run fast.com (which is my default, by the way), you get your Internet speed for watching Netflix, but not necessarily for other things.
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#34may i suggest nettfart.no by the norwegian government as an alternative ? at least the name is fun
It's not the net fart that kills your connection, it is the server smell.
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#35"By integrating Ookla’s data products, including Speedtest®, Downdetector®, Ekahau®, and RootMetrics®, Accenture will help Communications Service Providers (CSPs), hyperscalers, and enterprises optimize the mission-critical Wi-Fi and 5G networks that power their digital core. [...] Ookla’s data platform is anchored by more than 250 million consumer-initiated tests per month, complemented by controlled drive, walk, an…
Is there some legal reason to scatter announcements with that many ® symbols, or do they just do it for style reasons / because they think it makes the announcement look more impressive?
Legal. Gotta protect your trademarks.
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#37"By integrating Ookla’s data products, including Speedtest®, Downdetector®, Ekahau®, and RootMetrics®, Accenture will help Communications Service Providers (CSPs), hyperscalers, and enterprises optimize the mission-critical Wi-Fi and 5G networks that power their digital core. [...] Ookla’s data platform is anchored by more than 250 million consumer-initiated tests per month, complemented by controlled drive, walk, an…
Is there some legal reason to scatter announcements with that many ® symbols, or do they just do it for style reasons / because they think it makes the announcement look more impressive?
Using the symbol allows them greater protection under the Lanham act, because it counts as “notice” that the mark is registered.
Without it, it limits your ability to recover damages from infringement.
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#39Earlier quoted context omitted.
Of course they are not complex. They do have a network effect though. If you go to your local ISP and say “hey, my 500mbps plan is only doing 100mbps on Speedtest.net”, they’ll “fix it” (usually by working with Ookla to put an edge endpoint on their network) If you tell the “hey frankyspeeddetect.com isn’t doing my 500mbps” they’ll tell you to it’s an issue with that random website. ISPs and services reach out to Ook…
http://speed.cloudflare.com is a bit harder to argue with though.
The difference is that until now I had never heard of speed.cloudflare.com before. (I know about fast.com though.)
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#40Earlier quoted context omitted.
fast.com is my go-to in the rare case I need to check network speed these days
I read a while ago that certain ISPs will optimize the traffic to Netflix's servers, and so when you run fast.com (which is my default, by the way), you get your Internet speed for watching Netflix, but not necessarily for other things.
Out of curiosity, I just compared my home wifi between fast.com and cloudflare's speed tedt and got similar results, completely and definitely disproving (n=1) my claim above.