I hate to necro an old thread, but has anyone devised an alternative? We’re looking at the same dilemma of our own speedtest. It’s always been nice to have the Ookla speedtest not just in terms of performance, but the ability to reference actual results as well (since customers sometimes misinterpret the results). From the other speedtests mentioned (speedtest.io and openspeedtest) it appears that neither are something you can install on a local machine. Our personal preference is so customers can see what their speeds are within our control (the speedtest server is right next to our upstreams).
-Tim From: Af [mailto:af-bounces+tim=velociter....@afmug.com] On Behalf Of Tushar Patel via Af Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2014 7:55 PM To: af@afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Speedtest replacements? May be we will try that. But as a speedtest product from ookla, I am surprised there isn't really good competing product in the market. One would think there should be market for such product. No wonder they are raising the price. Tushar On Sep 23, 2014, at 8:23 PM, "Forrest Christian (List Account) via Af" <af@afmug.com<mailto:af@afmug.com>> wrote: Why not just host a speedtest.net<http://speedtest.net> server and have your customers test to it? -forrest On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 8:34 AM, Darren Shea via Af <af@afmug.com<mailto:af@afmug.com>> wrote: We currently host our own speedtest server using Ookla's speedtest technology, but Ookla is discontinuing the version we run, and the licensing fees for the new version are very steep. I'm looking at alternatives, such as OpenSpeedTest and speed.io<http://speed.io>, but would like to get some feedback on these if anyone is using them. We once tried using Brandon Checkett's Fancy Speed Test, but the results display was not really in line with what we wanted. Does anyone hosting their own, non-Ookla, speedtest server have some success stories or horror stories about particular packages? Thank you, Darren
