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http://speed.cloudflare.com http://speed.cloudflare.com is a bit harder to argue with though.

tverbeure 5mo ago
The difference is that until now I had never heard of speed.cloudflare.com before. (I know about fast.com though.)
cheema33 5mo ago
I had not heard of http://speed.cloudflare.com http://speed.cloudflare.com either. I just tried it and I did not get accurate numbers. wifiman.com, from Ubiquiti/Unifi team does provide more accurate numbers. fast.com numbers are pretty accurate as well.
- amelius 5mo ago
  I'm a huge fan of https://speed.cloudflare.com/ https://speed.cloudflare.com/ and you'll have to come with better evidence. Also fast.com doesn't even give upload speed and latency.
  - andylynch 5mo ago
    Sure it does. Just tap ‘More Info’ to show them
  - TheScaryOne 5mo ago
    That's not the point of fast.com Fast is a one click solution to finding out your download speed from Netflix. Latency doesn't matter, nor does upload.
- fragmede 5mo ago
  > I did not get accurate numbers. That's why speedtest.net is a great purchase for Accenture. Of course Cloudflare's speed test is accurate: it's a test of how fast your connection is to their network. No more, no less. That their network doesn't have the same PoPs means it'll have different numbers than Ookla's test, your ISPs advertised numbers, Netflix's test, and any other speed test. But for people that don't see the Internet as a pile of different interconnected networks, the conclusion that a particular test is inaccurate is a win for Accenture.
- is_true 5mo ago
  They serve so many sites that they are probably the best test there's now.
eddythompson80 5mo ago
All these numbers are fake. They are all special cased in most ISPs with the cooperation of cloudflare, Netflix, OOkla, Akamai, Google, etc. The centralization of the internet around AWS, Azure, Google, Netflix, Cloudflare, etc has been a godsend to ISPs and the internet infrastructure in general. Maintaining good network conditions to 4 or 5 dozen networks and working with them closely is so so much easier than maintaining full peer-to-peer network conditions. Go ahead and try to test internet speed to your home network over a wireguard VPN and compare it to the performance of the same VPN when connecting to any of the major services. Try to setup a tunnel between your house and your friends house in the same city and test the speed and compare it to fast.com or cloudflare.com or speedtest.net

The difference is that until now I had never heard of speed.cloudflare.com before. (I know about fast.com though.)

I had not heard of http://speed.cloudflare.com http://speed.cloudflare.com either. I just tried it and I did not get accurate numbers. wifiman.com, from Ubiquiti/Unifi team does provide more accurate numbers. fast.com numbers are pretty accurate as well.

amelius 5mo ago
I'm a huge fan of https://speed.cloudflare.com/ https://speed.cloudflare.com/ and you'll have to come with better evidence. Also fast.com doesn't even give upload speed and latency.
- andylynch 5mo ago
  Sure it does. Just tap ‘More Info’ to show them
- TheScaryOne 5mo ago
  That's not the point of fast.com Fast is a one click solution to finding out your download speed from Netflix. Latency doesn't matter, nor does upload.
fragmede 5mo ago
> I did not get accurate numbers. That's why speedtest.net is a great purchase for Accenture. Of course Cloudflare's speed test is accurate: it's a test of how fast your connection is to their network. No more, no less. That their network doesn't have the same PoPs means it'll have different numbers than Ookla's test, your ISPs advertised numbers, Netflix's test, and any other speed test. But for people that don't see the Internet as a pile of different interconnected networks, the conclusion that a particular test is inaccurate is a win for Accenture.
is_true 5mo ago
They serve so many sites that they are probably the best test there's now.

eddythompson80 5mo ago

All these numbers are fake. They are all special cased in most ISPs with the cooperation of cloudflare, Netflix, OOkla, Akamai, Google, etc. The centralization of the internet around AWS, Azure, Google, Netflix, Cloudflare, etc has been a godsend to ISPs and the internet infrastructure in general. Maintaining good network conditions to 4 or 5 dozen networks and working with them closely is so so much easier than maintaining full peer-to-peer network conditions. Go ahead and try to test internet speed to your home network over a wireguard VPN and compare it to the performance of the same VPN when connecting to any of the major services. Try to setup a tunnel between your house and your friends house in the same city and test the speed and compare it to fast.com or cloudflare.com or speedtest.net