Speed Test Results
Paul Stewart
paul at paulstewart.org
Fri Dec 23 13:07:58 UTC 2011
In my opinion they are only "somewhat reliable" if they are on your network
or very close to your network -we operate one of the speedtest.net sites and
for our own eyeball traffic find it to be a "reasonable indicator" of what
kind of speeds the customer is getting.
To put it a different way, if a customer is getting 20X1 Internet service
and the speedtest shows 17 X 0.8 then case closed - if they are getting a
speedtest result of 5 X 0.5 then our helpdesk will take a further look -
this is really in rough terms...
Paul
-----Original Message-----
From: jacob miller [mailto:mmzinyi at yahoo.com]
Sent: Friday, December 23, 2011 4:19 AM
To: nanog at nanog.org
Subject: Speed Test Results
Hi,
Am having a debate on the results of speed tests sites.
Am interested in knowing the thoughts of different individuals in regards to
this.
Regards,
Jacob
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