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
