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Show HN: Internet Speed Test
- nadermx 3y agoResizing box, got hugged. One sec.
- lukevp 3y agoDoesn’t load for me… hug of death? Or is it a joke I missed?
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- abatilo 3y agoCongratulations on getting a hug of death!
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- afruitpie 3y agoWhy use this instead of one of the various other speed tests? Off the top of my head: 1. Ookla SpeedTest https://www.speedtest.net https://www.speedtest.net 2. Netflix Fast https://fast.com https://fast.com 3. Cloudflare Speed Test (my personal favorite) https://speed.cloudflare.com https://speed.cloudflare.com
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- ssalka 3y agowhy are there multiple versions of anything? people can choose the one they like, and all are different somehow. I personally prefer fast.com because it's quick to type in and typically I'm only looking for download speed, but the real-time graph on this one here is pretty cool
- adamomada 3y agoFast shows you how fast your ISP WAN is, as the speed test goes to your local (ISP) Netflix cache. I like speed tests that go outside the ISP to get an idea of bandwidth to the internet
- icyfox 3y agoFast can also measure some more connection metadata if you click "show more info". A bit annoying it requires the extra step to start measuring ping and upload speed, but it is there.
- Isthatablackgsd 3y agoThere are ISPs out there that give priority and optimized the speed to Ookla Speedtest whenever the browsers connected to it. This causes skewed results believing that we are getting the speed we paid for when it is not in reality. In a way, it would do "unlimited speed" the maximum it can go just for this test. Netflix Fast are connected to multiple Netflix CDNs throughout regions. They will get a realistic speed meter and difficult for ISPs to fake it.
- is_true 3y agoCloudflare is more representative of the general speed. Fast gives me 300Mbps (what my ISP "promises") while cloudflare's give me 75Mbps
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- satiric 3y agoWorking well for me. Looks good on mobile. Thanks for not putting a bunch of useless crap all over the screen like a lot of these kinds of sites do.
- greenyoda 3y agoI don't think this server has enough bandwidth to accurately measure download speed. It told me my speed was 90.59 MB/s, but the test at fast.com gave me a more plausible 310 MB/s and speedtest.net gave me 325 MB/s. So it seems to be measuring its own maximum speed rather than mine. (The upload speed it gave me, 12 MB/s, agreed with fast.com.)
- nadermx 3y agoI will spend some time setting up Telemetry and a few servers to try and get one closer to you. But I don't think I'm getting throttled, but I'll check as well.
- greenyoda 3y agoYou may be getting throttled, since both times I tried, the speed started out faster and then quickly slowed down.
- teaearlgraycold 3y agoSays 1.6Gb/s here but fast.com says 4.0Gb/s
- rodlette 3y agoAlternative: use the iperf CLI tool with one of the servers listed on https://github.com/R0GGER/public-iperf3-servers https://github.com/R0GGER/public-iperf3-servers . I prefer this, since I already use iperf to measure speed between hosts I manage.
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- circularfoyers 3y agoWould be interesting to see the latency graphed at the same time.
- nadermx 3y agoI like this idea, but I'll have to think about it.
- vanillax 3y agowhat is this? No description. No Github. Im all for test your internet speed like libre speed, where I can actually test my local wifi. How is this front page?
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- pvg 3y agoIt's a Show HN https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
- 38 3y ago366/12 here. Dallas
- perryizgr8 3y agoThat upload speed is brutal. Unfortunately, slow upload will impact your downloading experience as well, if the gap is wide enough.
- adhall 3y ago400 (four hundred)mbps down in remote NC US with fiber.
- gavinsyancey 3y agoUm ... my upload speed shows as 0.00 Mbps. Is it broken?
- averageRoyalty 3y agoVery nice UI! Can I make some suggestions? - Latency, traceroute (or server location), ingress network or any other 'advanced' stats would be nice. Maybe hidden in an accordian? - If it's open source, a github like is probably a good idea - A share button is also a good idea. A simple link to a results page or even just a generated image would probably be sufficient. Where are you hosting this? Doesn't this slam your cost of bandwidth/fair use for unlimited? Thanks for sharing, very cool!
- nadermx 3y agoI'll add some more advanced stats over the coming days and telemetry.
- cobertos 3y agoAlways felt too cautious to buy a .my domain (Myanmar) but they do make nice domain hacks
- amanzi 3y agoSome constructive feedback - without me know where your server is, this test feels pointless. It's just showing my the speed between my computer and your server which could be anywhere in the world. Also, the chart labels say "MBS" but the details below say "Mbps". If I want a simple test, I'll usually use fast.com because I know that Netflix have a presence here in NZ and the "more info" link shows where the servers are. But if I need something more technically oriented, I'll use speed.cloudflare.com. Both of those tests show my speed significantly higher than what yours is showing.
- nadermx 3y agoI'm going to work on telemetry and a snippet to show the server, ping, and a few more things keeping it minimal. I also fixed the typo. Thanks for the feedback
- s1mon 3y agoInteresting, but as others have commented, why? Is this something that you plan to turn into a product or is this just for fun? Compared with other tools this runs for much longer, which made me question if it was ever going to stop the download test and run the upload. After stopping it twice I finally let it run long enough to see the upload too. The numbers agree with Ookla as far as I can tell. Having the X axis move is a bit disturbing and confusing since it doesn't give a sense of when the test might finish. The Y axis is not great for a cable connection like mine where it's ~550Mbps down and only 12 up. The upload graph is almost flat and it's hard to see any variation.
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- patatero 3y agoAre you residing in Malaysia? The only way to buy a .my domain is if you own a MyKad (national id) or a locally registered business.
- KomoD 3y ago> The only way to buy a .my domain Not the only way, there's registrars who offer "trustee" services and can register it on your behalf
- gnicholas 3y agoThe upload seemed to keep going for 5-10 seconds after the chart was fully populated. Other than that, seems pretty good (and showed similar results to testmy.net).
- nadermx 3y agoThnx. Fixed the issue so it ends when the plotting ends.
- Mrirazak1 3y agoIs this privacy based?
- nadermx 3y agoIt stores nothing as its just a blob of data, it uses clicky which is gdrp compliant for visitor tracking, why by default anynomizes and zero's out the ips.
- chaz6 3y agoI am pleased to see that it supports IPv6. Even today, plenty of new services are lacking.