I’m only doing it because we’re deploying Preseem for managing speed tiers and I know customers will use speedtest.net to determine if they’re getting advertised speeds.
My expectation was that I would have to gross up the rate limit a little so that someone on a 10 Mbps plan would speedtest at 10.1 rather than 9.8. What shocked me was the upstream was consistently coming up as 700k on a 1M plan and 1.4M on a 2M plan. Then I tried Chrome and Firefox, since I know I’m one of maybe 3 people in the universe still using Edge. And in Chrome the 30% upstream discrepancy was mostly resolved. And after Sterling mentioned the app, I tried that and got even higher numbers. I guess most people are using the app, because that’s what you have to do on a mobile device, and I’m one of 3 people in the universe still using a clunky old computer instead of a little pocket Facebook screen that also makes phone calls. From: AF <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Tim Reichhart Sent: Sunday, February 10, 2019 7:35 PM To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [AFMUG] speedtest.net result depends on browser? quit using speedtest.net or any other speed test like fast.com and use nperf.com or openspeedtest.com or host you own. _____ -----Original Message----- From: "Ken Hohhof" < <mailto:[email protected]> [email protected]> To: "AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group" < <mailto:[email protected]> [email protected]> Date: 02/10/19 09:10 Subject: Re: [AFMUG] speedtest.net result depends on browser? OK, as much as I hate installing apps, I just tried the Windows app and am seeing around 3% higher download speed and 25% higher upload speed using the app. I am at home now on an AT&T connection, will have to try on my network. This came up because we have been evaluating Preseem and while I was not surprised we had to set the DL rate a couple % high to get speedtests to yield the advertised rate, I was concerned when I saw 1.4M UL results on a 2M speed tier, that's a big difference, enough for customers to feel they're being cheated. But that was in Edge, and when I tried it with Chrome, it was something like 1.9M. I'll have to try it with the app. I know on mobile devices like phones, most people are app crazy and install apps for everything, so typically they are using the speedtest.net iOS or Android app. I just cringe at the thought of dozens or hundreds of apps on my phone, makes it easier for social media apps to spy on you and grab data they shouldn't have access to, plus I keep reading about malicious apps making it into the Apple and Google stores. Just saw one today about apps that steal your cryptocurrency wallet. From: AF < <mailto:[email protected]> [email protected]> On Behalf Of Sterling Jacobson Sent: Sunday, February 10, 2019 12:16 AM To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group < <mailto:[email protected]> [email protected]> Subject: Re: [AFMUG] speedtest.net result depends on browser? Yes, but generally I see the best/normal speeds using the Speedtest app on Win 10. Sometimes Chrome is faster, sometimes slower than Edge. Same with Apple, the app is more 'normal'speeds than using safari. From: AF < <mailto:[email protected]> [email protected]> On Behalf Of Ken Hohhof Sent: Saturday, February 9, 2019 1:39 PM To: 'AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group' < <mailto:[email protected]> [email protected]> Subject: [AFMUG] speedtest.net result depends on browser? Has anyone noticed different speedtest.net results depending on what browser you use? Specifically I am seeing upstream speeds significantly lower with Microsoft Edge than with Google Chrome _____ -- AF mailing list <mailto:[email protected]> [email protected] <http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com
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