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ISPs happily collaborate with and put speed test servers in privileged locations on their network so you will get higher speeds there even if the actual peering
by Nextgrid 1y ago
ISPs happily collaborate with and put speed test servers in privileged locations on their network so you will get higher speeds there even if the actual peering to the outside world is much slower.
- hectormalot 1y agoAs I was typing this it came to mind. Will test against one of my own servers one of these days to confirm.
- Nextgrid 1y agoYou can try Fast.com (Netflix) or Cloudflare’s one which are explicitly designed to work around this by serving the test data from the same endpoints the serve actual customer data, so ISPs can’t cheat. This still doesn’t guarantee however that you will achieve this speed to any random host on the internet - their pipe to Cloudflare/Netflix may very well be fat and optimized but it doesn’t guarantee their pipe to a random small hosting provider doesn’t go over a 56k modem somewhere (I jest.. but only a bit).
- hdgvhicv 1y agoGiven that whether you get 30mbit or 30gbit from Netflix won’t make a blind bit of difference it’s not that useful a test. It doesn’t do upload either as Netflix is all about consumption. Test to where you want to exchange high speed traffic.
- daveoc64 1y agoFast.com does an upload speed test, but it's hidden behind the "Show more info" button.