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Re: Speed Test

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Post by ehhthing »

sebzim4500 wrote: post #64

Smart. With a bit of SEO/marketing, this will become the way consumers judge their internet quality. If connection quality = ping to cloudflare then that puts cloudflare in a very strong negotiating position for peering agreements etc.

> then that puts cloudflare in a very strong negotiating position for peering agreements etc.

Ideally settlement peering would exist for everyone. Cloudflare, like every other sane provider prefers IX routes over PNI since it's less expensive for everyone involved. There really shouldn't be a discussion about whether peering should be settlement free or not.

Re: Speed Test

#92

Post by capableweb »

Aachen wrote: post #86
capableweb wrote: post #82

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Here in Europe it's all equally fast. I don't remember ever having a throttled service, that sounds like a page out of the dystopian scenarios produced in the era where net neutrality legislation was being proposed/promoted ten years ago or something. There were rumors back then that bittorrent was being throttled (and corresponding protocol obfuscation and port changing) but I never had that myself

> 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.

Re: Speed Test

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Post by tantalor »

IntelMiner wrote: post #30
pseudo_meta wrote: post #18

btw, on macOS, you can just enter `networkQuality` into your terminal for a speed test. No third-party website or tool of any kind needed, it's a built-in mac CLI.

Who's it measuring against? An (internet) speed test by its nature requires some remote third-party, if you aren't just testing to your own server

In the case of tool built by Apple, running on Apple client hardware, against Apple remote server, that would be "1st party", not "3rd party".

Re: Speed Test

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Post by mstade »

I tried this on my home wifi (fiber backend) and got scores in range with what I expect. Then I tried it again outside the house, a block away using a 5G connection and much to my surprise the bandwidth in downloading was MUCH better (almost 3x) and upload somewhat better (1.5x). The 5G connection had worse latency characteristics though, which is to be expected of course.

Obviously this isn't an apples-to-apples comparison, but I mention it because I'm genuinely surprised that 5G works this well. I've read all the claims but this is the first time I measure it, and frankly if I didn't need lower latency I might've just considered ditching the fiber.

Re: Speed Test

#96

Post by grumpy_coder »

Would be nice to aggregate some of these together. One 'speed' has always been a bad proxy for all the different speeds you get from ISP local caches (that most companies can't get in), local COLO/CDN, regional AWS/Azure/etc... and us-east

Re: Speed Test

#97

Post by cpfohl »

denton-scratch wrote: post #70
cpfohl wrote: post #65

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Link speed has always been measured in bits/s or as sibling comment suggests baud which is, still, just bits per second. Obviously a huge part of this is marketing for modems, ISPs, network cards, etc. but it’s consistent. The conversion to GB/s is fairly simple and doable with the super key, or super space on Mac in every modern OS… I agree with you that the difference is irritating, but wouldn’t have done any diffe…

> baud which is, still, just bits per second. Isn't the baud-rate the number of signal transitions per second? How that maps to bits per second depends on the wire encoding.

This is probably more accurate! I was relying on fuzzy memories from an era long past! Thanks for the correction.

Re: Speed Test

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Post by secondcoming »

jeroenhd wrote: post #66
sebzim4500 wrote: post #64

Smart. With a bit of SEO/marketing, this will become the way consumers judge their internet quality. If connection quality = ping to cloudflare then that puts cloudflare in a very strong negotiating position for peering agreements etc.

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.

I find fast.com massively overestimates my speeds.

Interestingly, if you hide the tab running their speedtest you get even higher speeds.

Re: Speed Test

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Post by [deleted] »

bmo-at wrote: post #59

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…

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Re: Speed Test

#100

Post by secondcoming »

maleldil wrote: post #40
gumballindie wrote: post #25

305 Mbps for me. Cringy how slow internet connetivity is in the UK.

Are you in London? My 1Gbps link gives 800-900Mbps in these speed tests, and I'm fine with that. It's a pitty that some of that is unused because I need to use a VPN. When I lived in a small town, my 500Mbps would give me >400Mbps consistently.

That 800-900Mbps doesn't include the bits needed for IP packet headers, does it?
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