I think, the cloudflare test uses a single TCP connection, while Ookla/Fast/… 
use multiple connections.

That’s probably the difference for you.


Christoph

> On Jan 4, 2023, at 2:21 PM, David P. Reed via Starlink 
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> I don't know how to debug this, but the cloudflare speed test really sucks on 
> my home wired network, compared to others. And also I discovered to my 
> chagrin that the DSLReports speedtest is now broken, at least in my Chrome 
> browser.
>  
> The speeds measured by Cloudflare are essentially 1/2 of both Ookla and 
> Fast.com.
>  
> Cloudflare in my test config gives ~500/10 Mb/sec, with a download latency of 
> 14.6 msec, upload latency of 11.6.
>  
> Oookla and Fast give ~980/25 Mb/sec, with "latency" being about 11 or 12 msec.
>  
> This difference is observed over a tuned "cake" install on my Linux router, 
> and the home network is 10 GigE to my workstation from the router, and the 
> router talks to my DOCSIS cable modem on RCN at 1 GigE, with RCN's product 
> offering being its "Gig" product.
>  
> Now, I hate using Ookla and getting bombarded with ads! I don't really trust 
> fast.com, but it used to be OK.
>  
> The real disappointment was that the DSL Reports speed test, which I used to 
> recommend is so broken. It claims it can't reach any of its 3 selected test 
> sites, because I may have an "alien script" and suggests my DNS might be 
> "slow" or my Chrome might have browser malware.
>  
> Now, maybe Chrome has browser malware on my machine. This is troubling to a 
> serious degree to me, and I will be investigating.
>  
> However, Cloudflare seems to be somewhat flaky to a significant degree. (It 
> also doesn't seem to push a fast network connection nearly hard enough to 
> measure lag under load, it seems to me).
>  
>  
>  
> On Wednesday, January 4, 2023 2:20pm, [email protected] 
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> > 1. Re: [Rpm] the grinch meets cloudflare's christmas present
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> > Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2023 14:20:15 -0500
> > From: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
> > To: Dave Taht <[email protected]>
> > Cc: bloat <[email protected]>, libreqos
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> > HNY Dave and all the rest,
> > 
> > Great to see yet another capacity test add latency metrics to the results. 
> > This
> > one looks like a good start.
> > 
> > Results from my Windstream DOCSIS 3.1 line (3.1 on download only, up is 3.0)
> > Gigabit down / 35Mbps up provisioning. Using an IQrouter Pro (an i5 x86) 
> > with Cake
> > set for 710/31 as this ISP can’t deliver reliable low-latency unless you
> > shave a good bit off the targets. My local loop is pretty congested.
> > 
> > Here’s the latest Cloudflare test:
> > 
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> > And an Ookla test run just afterward:
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> > They are definitely both in the ballpark and correspond to other tests run 
> > from
> > the router itself or my (wired) MacBook Pro.
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > 
> > Jonathan
> > 
> > 
> > > On Jan 4, 2023, at 12:26 PM, Dave Taht via Rpm
> > <[email protected]> wrote:
> > >
> > > Please try the new, the shiny, the really wonderful test here:
> > > https://speed.cloudflare.com/
> > >
> > > I would really appreciate some independent verification of
> > > measurements using this tool. In my brief experiments it appears - as
> > > all the commercial tools to date - to dramatically understate the
> > > bufferbloat, on my LTE, (and my starlink terminal is out being
> > > hacked^H^H^H^H^H^Hworked on, so I can't measure that)
> > >
> > > My test of their test reports 223ms 5G latency under load , where
> > > flent reports over 2seconds. See comparison attached.
> > >
> > > My guess is that this otherwise lovely new tool, like too many,
> > > doesn't run for long enough. Admittedly, most web objects (their
> > > target market) are small, and so long as they remain small and not
> > > heavily pipelined this test is a very good start... but I'm pretty
> > > sure cloudflare is used for bigger uploads and downloads than that.
> > > There's no way to change the test to run longer either.
> > >
> > > I'd love to get some results from other networks (compared as usual to
> > > flent), especially ones with cake on it. I'd love to know if they
> > > measured more minimum rtts that can be obtained with fq_codel or cake,
> > > correctly.
> > >
> > > Love Always,
> > > The Grinch
> > >
> > > --
> > > This song goes out to all the folk that thought Stadia would work:
> > >
> > https://www.linkedin.com/posts/dtaht_the-mushroom-song-activity-6981366665607352320-FXtz
> > > Dave Täht CEO, TekLibre, LLC
> > >
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