On Fri, 23 Dec 2011 12:16:38 MST, Joel Maslak said: > However, they are susceptible to things like wireless network issues, > TCP limitations (one stream vs. many streams), and misconfiguration of > devices at the customer location. And the speed test box isn't > necessarily configured/speced correctly either.
I have seen some surreal results reported by some of the speed test sites if you have a sufficiently fat pipe. Near as I could tell, every single hop was gigE or better all the way, the speedtest site then tried to apply a correction for the bottleneck it knew about on its local gigE nterface, and basically decided that the *rest* of the path must be near-infinite speed. ;)
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