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" <j...@kyneticwifi.com> To: "Mike Hammett" <na...@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" < na...@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" < j...@kyneticwifi.com > To: "Steven Miano" < mian...@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" < mian...@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 < johnst...@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 >