A lot of people can't differentiate between what the test is testing, a bad test and connectivity issues producing bad results on an otherwise good test. I'd say that most of the time, it's the last category. ----- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions Midwest Internet Exchange The Brothers WISP ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike Hammett" <nanog@ics-il.net> Cc: "NANOG" <nanog@nanog.org> Sent: Monday, December 5, 2016 12:42:56 PM Subject: Re: Favorite Speed Test Systems Right, it's mostly ISPs that don't understand the BGP world or how speedtests work. I think, you, Paul and myself were the only ones participating that really knew. ----- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions Midwest Internet Exchange The Brothers WISP ----- Original Message ----- From: "Josh Reynolds" <josh@kyneticwifi.com> To: "Mike Hammett" <nanog@ics-il.net> Cc: "NANOG" <nanog@nanog.org> Sent: Monday, December 5, 2016 10:28:22 AM Subject: Re: Favorite Speed Test Systems There was an afmug thread about this exact issue several months ago. On Dec 5, 2016 9:57 AM, "Mike Hammett" < nanog@ics-il.net > wrote: Ah, this is the first I've heard of slow fast.com performance with someone actually connected to them. Usually it's an ISP that's a few AS hops away from Netflix. ----- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions Midwest Internet Exchange The Brothers WISP ----- Original Message ----- From: "Josh Reynolds" < josh@kyneticwifi.com > To: "Steven Miano" < mianosm@gmail.com > Cc: "NANOG" < nanog@nanog.org > Sent: Monday, December 5, 2016 9:51:30 AM Subject: Re: Favorite Speed Test Systems A lot of people have crappy performance to those. For example, from a 10G server to fast.com I was pulling around 9Mbps up/down. 1 hop away from a Netflix open connect appliance. On Dec 5, 2016 9:49 AM, "Steven Miano" < mianosm@gmail.com > wrote:
fast.com is a dead fast/simple download result page.
...also with a huge customer base - it is often closer to speedtest.<ISP>.net|com than some of those others.
There is also a speedtest-cli available on Linux/MacOS (via Brew).
On Mon, Dec 5, 2016 at 9:50 AM, Graham Johnston < johnstong@westmancom.com > wrote:
For many years we have had a local instance of the Ookla speedtest.net on our network, and while it is pretty good some other tests seem include more detailed results.
I am aware of the following speedtest systems that an operator can likely have a local instance of:
* Speedtest.net
* Sourceforge.net/speedtest
* Dslreports.com/speedtest
Are there others? What is your preferred one and why?
Thanks, Graham
-- Miano, Steven M. http://stevenmiano.com