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Re: Accenture to acquire Ookla

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Post by fragmede »

cheema33 wrote: post #68
fragmede wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

http://speed.cloudflare.com is a bit harder to argue with though.

I had not heard of http://speed.cloudflare.com either. I just tried it and I did not get accurate numbers. wifiman.com, from Ubiquiti/Unifi team does provide more accurate numbers. fast.com numbers are pretty accurate as well.

> I did not get accurate numbers.

That's why speedtest.net is a great purchase for Accenture. Of course Cloudflare's speed test is accurate: it's a test of how fast your connection is to their network. No more, no less. That their network doesn't have the same PoPs means it'll have different numbers than Ookla's test, your ISPs advertised numbers, Netflix's test, and any other speed test. But for people that don't see the Internet as a pile of different interconnected networks, the conclusion that a particular test is inaccurate is a win for Accenture.

Re: Accenture to acquire Ookla

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Post by krm01 »

forcer wrote: post #59
frankdenbow wrote: post #57

Earlier quoted context omitted.

what was the point where you had enough data to make it worthwhile for telcos?

I would say if you can reach 1% of the population in a given country every month then you are starting to be interesting for the telcos.

What about city specific data? Is that equally/more/less valuable? At what scale do you think?

Re: Accenture to acquire Ookla

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Post by TheScaryOne »

amelius wrote: post #75
cheema33 wrote: post #68

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I had not heard of http://speed.cloudflare.com either. I just tried it and I did not get accurate numbers. wifiman.com, from Ubiquiti/Unifi team does provide more accurate numbers. fast.com numbers are pretty accurate as well.

I'm a huge fan of https://speed.cloudflare.com/ and you'll have to come with better evidence. Also fast.com doesn't even give upload speed and latency.

That's not the point of fast.com

Fast is a one click solution to finding out your download speed from Netflix.

Latency doesn't matter, nor does upload.

Re: Accenture to acquire Ookla

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Post by is_true »

cheema33 wrote: post #68
fragmede wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

http://speed.cloudflare.com is a bit harder to argue with though.

I had not heard of http://speed.cloudflare.com either. I just tried it and I did not get accurate numbers. wifiman.com, from Ubiquiti/Unifi team does provide more accurate numbers. fast.com numbers are pretty accurate as well.

They serve so many sites that they are probably the best test there's now.

Re: Accenture to acquire Ookla

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Post by arikrahman »

forcer wrote: post #44

I am not sure why this old news is surfacing here today but I can give my 2 cents, since I sold speedchecker.com last year and were directly competing with Ookla. The main business is selling the data. You use Speedtest.net to troubleshoot your connection but metrics captured with the test alongside location data give telcos invaluable insights on where they should improve their networks. Telcos pay 6 figures annuall…

All it takes to defeat the business model is https://openspeedtest.com/

Re: Accenture to acquire Ookla

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Post by andylynch »

amelius wrote: post #75
cheema33 wrote: post #68

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I had not heard of http://speed.cloudflare.com either. I just tried it and I did not get accurate numbers. wifiman.com, from Ubiquiti/Unifi team does provide more accurate numbers. fast.com numbers are pretty accurate as well.

I'm a huge fan of https://speed.cloudflare.com/ and you'll have to come with better evidence. Also fast.com doesn't even give upload speed and latency.

Sure it does.

Just tap ‘More Info’ to show them

Re: Accenture to acquire Ookla

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Post by jedberg »

arikrahman wrote: post #85
forcer wrote: post #44

I am not sure why this old news is surfacing here today but I can give my 2 cents, since I sold speedchecker.com last year and were directly competing with Ookla. The main business is selling the data. You use Speedtest.net to troubleshoot your connection but metrics captured with the test alongside location data give telcos invaluable insights on where they should improve their networks. Telcos pay 6 figures annuall…

All it takes to defeat the business model is https://openspeedtest.com/

That test was totally inaccurate for me. It got the download right but upload was only 1/12 of my rated speed and 1/12 of what all the other tests (and my actual experience) tell me.

Re: Accenture to acquire Ookla

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Post by jedberg »

tjoff wrote: post #70
rozenmd wrote: post #17

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the best part is Downdetector is inaccurate as hell - if AWS is genuinely down, folks get curious and search other providers, causing Downdetector to mark them as down too

Just searching surely does not mark them as down?

That's exactly how it works. The website is just a counter of how many people landed on the page searching for "is $X down"

Re: Accenture to acquire Ookla

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Post by esseph »

Melatonic wrote: post #60
forcer wrote: post #44

I am not sure why this old news is surfacing here today but I can give my 2 cents, since I sold speedchecker.com last year and were directly competing with Ookla. The main business is selling the data. You use Speedtest.net to troubleshoot your connection but metrics captured with the test alongside location data give telcos invaluable insights on where they should improve their networks. Telcos pay 6 figures annuall…

Any recommendations for similar tools to check network metrics other than speed ? Used to be a few free ones but would be nice to have an easy one to use

Most will show you speed / latency / packetloss with the toggleable option for multi-single threaded.

What would you like to see?

Re: Accenture to acquire Ookla

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Post by qsxfthnkp2322 »

athrowaway3z wrote: post #80
forcer wrote: post #44

I am not sure why this old news is surfacing here today but I can give my 2 cents, since I sold speedchecker.com last year and were directly competing with Ookla. The main business is selling the data. You use Speedtest.net to troubleshoot your connection but metrics captured with the test alongside location data give telcos invaluable insights on where they should improve their networks. Telcos pay 6 figures annuall…

Did you ever fear that any big player like Google, Apple, Valve (though fewer mobiles), Meta, OpenAI (nowadays), etc decide to get involved?

Apple has their own internal speed app due to privacy concerns.
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