When is speed ever ensured past someone else's edge/border ? You may pass through your upstream that fast but once you are out in the open range you are free game to all the lions, tigers & bears.., There is always going to be something eating you. Best off letting it be the Spanish queasiness from the night before than the results from speedtest.net -- Jason Hellenthal JJH448-ARIN - (2^(N-1)) On Apr 4, 2013, at 4:14, Mike <mike-nanog@tiedyenetworks.com> wrote:
On 04/03/2013 02:48 PM, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
On Wed, 03 Apr 2013 14:07:48 -0700, Mike said:
These speedtests are pure unscientific bs and I'd love to see them called out on the carpet for it.
As far as I know, it's possible for the end-to-end reported values to be lower than your immediate upstream due to issues further upstream.
But if it reports 20MBbits/sec down and 5MBits/sec up, then the link is able to go *at least* that fast.
(If anybody's got evidence of it reporting more than the link is technically capable of, feel free to correct me...)
Yeah, I do... I've had T1 lines reported at 4.7mbps down and 2.8mbps up.
These tests are hogwash.
Mike-