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may i suggest nettfart.no by the norwegian government as an alternative ? at least the name is fun

by yokoprime 4mo ago

joshuat 4mo ago
fast.com is my go-to in the rare case I need to check network speed these days
- taberiand 4mo ago
  We used fast.com to speed test our new office internet connection and the next day got an irate email from corporate (who had argued we didn't need the new connection) about "watching Netflix all day". I imagine some C-level thought they had a real gotcha! moment until I showed them the site.
  - musicale 4mo ago
    This is another advantage of fast.com.
- cseleborg 4mo ago
  I read a while ago that certain ISPs will optimize the traffic to Netflix's servers, and so when you run fast.com (which is my default, by the way), you get your Internet speed for watching Netflix, but not necessarily for other things.
  - cseleborg 4mo ago
    Out of curiosity, I just compared my home wifi between fast.com and cloudflare's speed tedt and got similar results, completely and definitely disproving (n=1) my claim above.
  - Spooky23 4mo ago
    That was very relevant in some scenarios. When Spectrum was fighting with Netflix, they would force Netflix traffic to a peer circuit that was under provisioned as a shakedown tactic. Fast.com would detect that, and you could bypass that nonsense by changing your DNS.
  - patja 4mo ago
    The opposite can also be true. T-Mobile throttles Netflix and fast.com on my 5g mobile plan to be less than 5Mbps where Speedtest shows > 200Mbps.
vinay427 4mo ago
While neat that a government operates this, I’m not sure it’s a viable alternative for most users given that the servers are AFAIK all in Norway. For example, the latency from my network was 150-200ms (compared to 6ms for the Speedtest.net server) and the speed test results appear less consistent than they may be in/near Norway.
BoingBoomTschak 4mo ago
I recommend https://speed.cloudflare.com/ https://speed.cloudflare.com/ personally.
- LelouBil 4mo ago
  I like the fact that it shows packet loss
  - BoingBoomTschak 4mo ago
    Well, I originally found it on the Bufferfloat test page: https://www.bufferbloat.net/projects/bloat/wiki/Tests_for_Bufferbloat/ https://www.bufferbloat.net/projects/bloat/wiki/Tests_for_Bu...
firefax 4mo ago
why is it named this? i'm guessing "fart" means something different in your language :-)
- pmdr 4mo ago
  "speed" in Swedish and Norwegian. Probably Danish as well.
  - firefax 4mo ago
    ah, makes sense, thank you.
    - bookofjoe 4mo ago
      >A fartlek (Swedish for "speed play") is an unstructured, continuous running workout that mixes fast bursts of intense running with slower, recovery jogging.
- rswail 4mo ago
  Wait until you find out what they call "closed".
Mordisquitos 4mo ago
It's not the net fart that kills your connection, it is the server smell.
amarcheschi 4mo ago
There is also the Italian one, AFAIK you can use this as an official tool to check whether your speed is at least the minimum speed that should be provided by contract. I don't know whether it pings to italy even outside italy/eu https://misurainternet.it/misura-speedtest/?speedtest=inizia https://misurainternet.it/misura-speedtest/?speedtest=inizia
teddyh 4mo ago
For Swedish users: <https://www.bredbandskollen.se/ https://www.bredbandskollen.se/>
- usr1106 4mo ago
  Finnish https://bittimittari.fi/en/measurement https://bittimittari.fi/en/measurement
  - arielcostas 4mo ago
    Spain https://speedtest.rediris.es/ https://speedtest.rediris.es/

may i suggest nettfart.no by the norwegian government as an alternative ? at least the name is fun

joshuat 4mo ago

fast.com is my go-to in the rare case I need to check network speed these days

taberiand 4mo ago
We used fast.com to speed test our new office internet connection and the next day got an irate email from corporate (who had argued we didn't need the new connection) about "watching Netflix all day". I imagine some C-level thought they had a real gotcha! moment until I showed them the site.
- musicale 4mo ago
  This is another advantage of fast.com.
cseleborg 4mo ago
I read a while ago that certain ISPs will optimize the traffic to Netflix's servers, and so when you run fast.com (which is my default, by the way), you get your Internet speed for watching Netflix, but not necessarily for other things.
- cseleborg 4mo ago
  Out of curiosity, I just compared my home wifi between fast.com and cloudflare's speed tedt and got similar results, completely and definitely disproving (n=1) my claim above.
- Spooky23 4mo ago
  That was very relevant in some scenarios. When Spectrum was fighting with Netflix, they would force Netflix traffic to a peer circuit that was under provisioned as a shakedown tactic. Fast.com would detect that, and you could bypass that nonsense by changing your DNS.
- patja 4mo ago
  The opposite can also be true. T-Mobile throttles Netflix and fast.com on my 5g mobile plan to be less than 5Mbps where Speedtest shows > 200Mbps.

vinay427 4mo ago

While neat that a government operates this, I’m not sure it’s a viable alternative for most users given that the servers are AFAIK all in Norway. For example, the latency from my network was 150-200ms (compared to 6ms for the Speedtest.net server) and the speed test results appear less consistent than they may be in/near Norway.

BoingBoomTschak 4mo ago

I recommend https://speed.cloudflare.com/ https://speed.cloudflare.com/ personally.

LelouBil 4mo ago
I like the fact that it shows packet loss
- BoingBoomTschak 4mo ago
  Well, I originally found it on the Bufferfloat test page: https://www.bufferbloat.net/projects/bloat/wiki/Tests_for_Bufferbloat/ https://www.bufferbloat.net/projects/bloat/wiki/Tests_for_Bu...

firefax 4mo ago

why is it named this? i'm guessing "fart" means something different in your language :-)

pmdr 4mo ago
"speed" in Swedish and Norwegian. Probably Danish as well.
- firefax 4mo ago
  ah, makes sense, thank you.
  - bookofjoe 4mo ago
    >A fartlek (Swedish for "speed play") is an unstructured, continuous running workout that mixes fast bursts of intense running with slower, recovery jogging.
rswail 4mo ago
Wait until you find out what they call "closed".

Mordisquitos 4mo ago

It's not the net fart that kills your connection, it is the server smell.

amarcheschi 4mo ago

There is also the Italian one, AFAIK you can use this as an official tool to check whether your speed is at least the minimum speed that should be provided by contract. I don't know whether it pings to italy even outside italy/eu https://misurainternet.it/misura-speedtest/?speedtest=inizia https://misurainternet.it/misura-speedtest/?speedtest=inizia

teddyh 4mo ago

For Swedish users: <https://www.bredbandskollen.se/ https://www.bredbandskollen.se/>

usr1106 4mo ago
Finnish https://bittimittari.fi/en/measurement https://bittimittari.fi/en/measurement
- arielcostas 4mo ago
  Spain https://speedtest.rediris.es/ https://speedtest.rediris.es/