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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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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.
I recently discovered that using the Verizon website on Firefox is pretty much impossible, it similarly has nightmarish login/account issues. Whatever issue the browser has with the site even managed to break their new account flow on two installations I've had done in recent months. The installation and appointments were scheduled and performed, but nobody in their support teams can find either account in their syst…
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Huh, that's strange, I usually see the opposite when I'm out and about (particularly in Europe/South America). Popular services like Netflix are throttled but downloading huge blobs from my own servers is much faster.
Isn't this exactly what net neutrality laws are supposed to ban?
Nice. Every speed test should have a "latency under load" graph, because we can't fight bufferbloat if we can't see it. DSLReports had the first bufferbloat test I'm aware of, but it's broken now. Another example is https://www.waveform.com/tools/bufferbloat Ideally this problem should be fixed by ISPs and modem manufacturers, but individuals can use OpenWrt with luci-app-sqm, at least when the connection has a predi…
Wow, +500ms latency under upload load for me with Hyperoptic. Incredibly poor. https://www.waveform.com/tools/bufferbloat?test-id=8205ec7e-...
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Indeed, that's part of what motivated netflix to make fast.com.
is it possible for ISP to distinguish Netflix video streams from connections to Fast.com ? (and throttle them differently) PS: my latest ISP router doesn't let me change DNS to my local pi-hole. haven't explored all options yet - just got new one 2 days ago -- but currently my DNS queries are going to whatever is the default set by my ISP.
Having DOCSIS, I buy a modem, and own my router. I am aware that for more exotic technologies like fiber, a rented/ISP-owned 'modem' or network terminal of some sort may be compulsory, but a router is a bridge too far (no pun intended) for me.
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Netflix and Google (YouTube) are commercial entities that ISPs will intentionally throttle. Reduce the bandwidth for all Netflix servers to 5mbps and suddenly you're stuck watching at 480p or 720p, even if the connection can handle multiple 4k streams. 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…
> Netflix and Google (YouTube) are commercial entities that ISPs will intentionally throttle. In Nederland? I only heard these stories from the USA, and then specifically about monopoly ISPs with Netflix as trial target to see if they can get extra money from them
I haven't caught any real ISP here (only train/public WiFi). I don't trust Dutch ISPs to follow the law so I do run these checks every now and then.
At least one American mobile carrier overtly advertises "5G" with "unlimited data" followed by "DVD quality (480p) standard" video quality, but not every carrier in every country will be that direct.
Not bad for corp VPN.
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That website is not zoomable on mobile, which is a pretty grave offence for an _image posting site_.
ugh you're right. I'm on the lookout for an imgur replacement, do you have a recommendation?
The only catch is most of them set a time limit on uploads, but you might be able to (ab)use archive.org if you want the files to stay online forever.
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
