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What I'd really love to see is this concept provided as a service by all of the big streaming/gaming/large-content-blob providers and aggregated into a single p
by nlawalker 10y ago
What I'd really love to see is this concept provided as a service by all of the big streaming/gaming/large-content-blob providers and aggregated into a single page.
I have absolutely no reason to believe that every well-known "speed test" app/site/utility out there isn't being gamed by my ISP. A speed test that showed me my actual streaming bandwidth from Netflix, actual download speed of an XX MB file from Steam, actual upload bandwidth to some photo-sharing service, and actual latency to XBox Live or some well-trafficked gaming service would be awesome.
- btym 10y agoI'm not sure this would need to be managed by any of those companies though, I think everything you listed could be tested in a browser by a 3rd party. May require authorization to those services though.
- nitrogen 10y agoI have absolutely no reason to believe that every well-known "speed test" app/site/utility out there isn't being gamed by my ISP. Guess who runs the nearest speedtest.net server: Comcast.
- virtuallynathan 10y agoThere is good reasons for this, it can help a ton in figuring out where exactly the issue is. If the speedtest server is off-net, you have no idea where the problem lies. Transit provider? Peering? End network? my wifi? Last mile?
- CaptSpify 10y agoThere may be some good reasons for this, but for even the best companies, it's shady. And comcast is far from one the best companies. Instead, they should create a site that is clearly comcast branded and shows the results of each step.
- Sephr 10y agoThey do: http://speedtest.xfinity.com/ http://speedtest.xfinity.com/
- z3t4 10y agoJust try downloading a popular torrent. Not saying you should download the whole file, just enough so that you will see your max up/down bandwidth.