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> With home broadband reaching 70 Mbps globally The source for that is some stats from speedtest.net, which I assume is calculated from the users who used thei
by rob74 4y ago
> With home broadband reaching 70 Mbps globally
The source for that is some stats from speedtest.net, which I assume is calculated from the users who used their speed test? So it's probably heavily skewed towards power users who have a fast connection and want to check if they are really getting what they are paying for. Most "casual" users with shitty DSL connections are happy if "the internet" works at all and are pretty unlikely to ever use this service...
- Springtime 4y agoPrior topics on HN about those speed tests (eg[1]) also show ISPs prioritize them which gives a misleading representation of typical speeds. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31062799 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31062799
- dspillett 4y agoThis is why Netflix started their own (fast.com), making it more difficult for ISPs to throttle NF video content (or just prioritise speedtest traffic) and blame NF for poor performance (or poor quality because it was using more highly compressed streams to deal with low throughput) because “if you run any speedtest you'll see your connection through us is fine, it must be NF being busy”.