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You can make that argument literally for everything and anything. Why need a new programming language? Well, because we think that our users deserve more choic
by fermienrico 6y ago
You can make that argument literally for everything and anything.
Why need a new programming language? Well, because we think that our users deserve more choices.
That does not fly well when someone needs to fork out $$$ to fund the activity.
Back to the topic, what users really need is a way to run all available tools (there are many speed test tools out there) and provide them a "full picture" in one shot. Sure, the test will take 3 mins to run but it would more useful if you're concerned about usefulness.
- arghwhat 6y agoIndeed, you can make that argument for everything, and it still holds. You want more competition, not less. From a speed-test service, difference is indeed in who you test against: Location is a feature. No different than programming languages providing different features. Without this service, you would not be able to speedtest towards cloudflare infrastructure at all. You'd need this at the very least to try to create the "monster" test-suite you suggest. However, it is entirely impossible to provide "a full picture", simply because there is no such thing. In a given moment, there is a given possible throughput and latency for any given point A to point B, which holds no value for any other point, or any other time.
- manigandham 6y agoWell, Cloudflare did fork out the money for this tool so it's already done and now free to use.