-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 3/12/2010 11:26 AM, Scott Berkman wrote:
So have other people noticed that the Ookla/Speedtest.net/Speakeasy Bandwidth test often comes up VERY short on upload bandwidth results for anything other than residential-grade asymmetrical services?
We often get complaints from customers saying "I'm not getting the upload bandwidth I'm paying for", and when we ask what they are using to determine this, the answer is almost always either Speakeasy or Speedtest.net.
We certainly don't depend on or recommend these sites to customers (we have our own internal tools and usually recommend FTP or iperf), but everyone who deems themselves semi-knowledgeable seems to find their way there anyway. Do these sites simply not have the downstream bandwidth to handle the upload tests? If that?s the case I'd really like to see the admins add a disclaimer of some form directly to the site.
Thanks,
-Scott
I'm seeing big disparity between upload and download speeds. I had the same thought as to the testing platform expecting asymmetrical speeds typical of a residential link. Why didn't they go with NDT? -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkuadI0ACgkQQr/gMVyFYyT5ywCfTjlYgTs9qV3AaXHsHX3wkm15 QJYAoJoSxNzDqrdX86MoLNB+gObbhZ9/ =qGyL -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----