If there's no actual issue besides a test showing "I don't get what I pay
for", refer them to the up-to explanation for residential service. It
should be in everyone's TOS and list the 50+ variables of why a speedtest
won't always be perfect or accurate.

On Tue, Jan 28, 2020, 8:00 PM Ken Hohhof <af...@kwisp.com> wrote:

> You can't win.
>
> I had to tell one customer we would only troubleshoot speedtest.net or
> fast.com results, he was using some automatic speedtest and then
> reviewing the report and complaining he wasn't getting what he was paying
> for (our traffic graphs and preseem graphs say otherwise).  He was using
> something like testmy.net.
>
> This is a new thing, I'm waiting for speedtests that automatically
> complain to the ISP and demand a refund.  Even if everything works fine
> including streaming.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: AF <af-boun...@af.afmug.com> On Behalf Of Seth Mattinen
> Sent: Tuesday, January 28, 2020 7:37 PM
> To: af@af.afmug.com
> Subject: Re: [AFMUG] WIFI and 4mb Speedtest.net
>
> On 1/28/20 17:24, Josh Baird wrote:
> > That's great and all, but most users will go to speedtest.net
> > <http://speedtest.net> by default.  This is why you should consider
> > running your own Ookla server.
>
>
> We dealt with that by having a policy of not supporting speedtest.net
> results, and direct them to the test we will support.
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