On 1/12/22 17:58, Sean Donelan wrote:
Back in the old days, when there was competition between ISPs, the
ISPs you paid money used to have curated speed test targets on their
networks. Because you were paying them, some people wanted evidence
they were getting what they were paying for, that was the only one
under their control when you didn't get what you were paying.
We ran speedtest.net servers for about 4 years, and then retired them.
They outlived their usefuless as the minimum bandwidth made available to
customers started to test the limits both of the servers and the
customer's own gear.
It took another 3 years for both customers and internal teams to get
onboard with "no more speedtest.net here", but finally, seems the ship
has turned.
Mark.
