23 Dec
2011
23 Dec
'11
8:33 p.m.
On Fri, 23 Dec 2011 12:16:38 MST, Joel Maslak said:
However, they are susceptible to things like wireless network issues, TCP limitations (one stream vs. many streams), and misconfiguration of devices at the customer location. And the speed test box isn't necessarily configured/speced correctly either.
I have seen some surreal results reported by some of the speed test sites if you have a sufficiently fat pipe. Near as I could tell, every single hop was gigE or better all the way, the speedtest site then tried to apply a correction for the bottleneck it knew about on its local gigE nterface, and basically decided that the *rest* of the path must be near-infinite speed. ;)