Speedtest Results speedtest.net vs Mikrotik bandwidth test

Thu Apr 4 01:34:07 UTC 2013

On 4/3/13 6:25 PM, Warren Bailey wrote:
> I'm shocked Ookla hasn't been eaten by some major ISP. Speed tests are
> the root of most complaints. Your link is congested (oversubed) and you
> then attempt to completely saturate your bandwidth to tell your provider
> what a suck job they are doing. I can't imagine wireless isps or those
> with limited  bandwidth haven't black holed those kind of performance
> tools. My world (satellite) is plagued by people who are speed testing
> very narrow band connections and expecting 15mbps down. They don't
> realize Speedtest is not an accurate representation of your connection
> as you cannot influence your bandwidth upstream. Ds3 from you to your
> 56k modem type of scenario comes to mind. It may *not* be your provider
> who is responsible for your issues (some people Speedtest just to call
> their provider to complain for service credits etc). 
> 

In my case I know the gig connection between me and that transit is
nowhere near saturated and works OK, so I have to assume the server
they're hosting speedtest.net on is either constantly hosed or uses a
10Base-T interface, possibly token ring.

~Seth