When is speed ever ensured past someone else's edge/border ? You may pass through your upstream that fast but once you are out in the open range you are free game to all the lions, tigers & bears..,
There is always going to be something eating you. Best off letting it be the Spanish queasiness from the night before than the results from speedtest.net -- Jason Hellenthal JJH448-ARIN - (2^(N-1)) On Apr 4, 2013, at 4:14, Mike <mike-na...@tiedyenetworks.com> wrote: > On 04/03/2013 02:48 PM, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: >> On Wed, 03 Apr 2013 14:07:48 -0700, Mike said: >> >>> These speedtests are pure unscientific bs and I'd love to see them >>> called out on the carpet for it. >> >> As far as I know, it's possible for the end-to-end reported values to be >> lower than your immediate upstream due to issues further upstream. >> >> But if it reports 20MBbits/sec down and 5MBits/sec up, then the link is >> able to go *at least* that fast. >> >> (If anybody's got evidence of it reporting more than the link is technically >> capable of, feel free to correct me...) > > > > Yeah, I do... I've had T1 lines reported at 4.7mbps down and 2.8mbps up. > > These tests are hogwash. > > Mike- >
