Basically it's a CYA statement on the part of Ookla/speedtest.net, since their test sites are of varying quality. The Radnor, OH test site sometimes can't even properly test a 10mbit SOHO broadband connection, where the Toledo site is consistently able to flood every available bit of capacity on my 50/5 home connection.
It's just another tool that needs to be used intelligently. If I'm testing out a new ISP or a new speed level I've never had before, I wouldn't immediately complain if I didn't get the expected result on a public speed test site as it may be something outside of my ISP's control. On the other hand if things start dragging on my home connection or anywhere else that I know I can expect a certain result speedtest.net is usually my first stop. ---------- Sean Harlow s...@seanharlow.info On Dec 25, 2011, at 9:43 PM, Grant Ridder wrote: > Even though the faq's say they are only good for residential usage, i have > had no problems with it at school. My college has 2x 100 Mb circuits from > TW. When i run speed tests (I use speedtest.net) with the campus empty, i > can get around 95Mb up. The bottleneck is the school's 100Mb switches. > When the campus is filled (during the week) i can normally get close to 40 > Mb down on a test. > > -Grant
