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305 Mbps for me. Cringy how slow internet connetivity is in the UK.
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There are decent alternatives for this. Fast.com is hosted by Netflix, making them an excellent speedtest to check for service throttling. Google has a speedtest as well (Google "speed test" and it'll show a button). The more of these tests start appearing, the better.
> hosted by Netflix, making them an excellent speedtest to check for service throttling That's exactly what the person above you meant about Cloudflare, right? By using the Netflix speedtest as a benchmark, you're promoting good connectivity to another commercial entity (for good or for bad, I don't mean to judge, just stating)
This is abused for "unlimited data" subscriptions that aren't unlimited when you actually try to consume more data than a standard subscription would allow you to. Of course that's completely illegal in countries with net neutrality laws, but not every country has those.
I can't think of a reason why a shitty ISP would throttle Cloudflare, as Cloudflare mostly hosts small files. As an ISP you want customers to think websites are nice and fast, because if only Netflix is slow, surely the problem lies with Netflix, right?
If speedtest.net says you have gigabit, Cloudflare says the same, and fast.com is giving you 5mbps, your ISP is messing with your bandwidth. It could be that Netflix has technical issues, but you'd read about those. That's why these tests are useful, and why we need more like them.
If you're interested in this then you might be interested in the global Internet quality data we are publishing: https://radar.cloudflare.com/quality and https://blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-radar-internet-quali...
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> 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
305 Mbps for me. Cringy how slow internet connetivity is in the UK.
Is it cheap? That's about the same speed for me (in US), and I could get gigabit, but I feel that the ~double cost isn't worth it.
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.
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".
Cloudflare doesn't even get close.
If you're interested in this then you might be interested in the global Internet quality data we are publishing: https://radar.cloudflare.com/quality and https://blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-radar-internet-quali...
Your layout is broken in everything but Chrome.
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…
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I saw the more detailed information below. The high speed comes entirely from 2 outliers on the 1MB upload test; all of the 10MB tests were clustered around 32Mbps
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I reran and got similar results again with 3 1MB uploads over 200Mbps and all other uploads clustered around 32Mbps