We host one of the gazillion speed test sites and for networks that are close to us we find it "reasonably accurate" .. a good benchmark at least ..
Even our installers in the field use it as a "reference point".... YMMV obviously.... Paul -----Original Message----- From: valdis.kletni...@vt.edu [mailto:valdis.kletni...@vt.edu] Sent: April-03-13 5:48 PM To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: Speedtest Results speedtest.net vs Mikrotik bandwidth test 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...)
