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I just got fiber. 5-20 ms to most websites as far as I can tell. Blazing. It is the lowest bandwidth package, but the latency is still far superior to cable. An

• bradknowles 3y ago
  IMO, they are correct to focus on latency instead of bandwidth as the primary factor governing perceived "speed" by the users. And speed.Cloudflare.com is one interesting tool to measure that. But it doesn't tell you anything about your latency to various other sites around the 'net. I wonder, do folks here frequently measure that? Do you set up tools to constantly smokeping the top 100 web sites around the world, or maybe the top twenty websites that you actually use, or something else? Do you set up your own downdetector style graphs to show what latency is like to all these various services for you? If you do set up your own kind of monitor like this, what tools do you use to do so? Is it rrdtool or Nagios or something else?
  • bradknowles 3y ago
    I'd be curious to know what you folks think of https://testmy.net/ https://testmy.net/ and how that compares to other Speedtest type sites? I like their comparison to other tests in other areas and other carriers, as well as their options for configuring the tests. Anything else? Are there good toolkits out there for testing this sort of stuff?