We have done some extensive testing with the ookla speedtest.net server software as we wanted to optimize our speedtest server to be able to support multi gig’s /sec. What we have found that firefox/opera actually preformed the best. We also noted that going from win 8 to win 8.1 network performance dropped. OS X seemed to have performed the same across different versions of the OS. We ran head to head on 10gig ports with the speedtest server just to make sure there was no outside influencers. We ended up finding the right hardware/ os / browser match for our field tech laptops that would net us 950+ on the speedtest server. Network interface drivers seem to be a big issue once you get into these higher speeds.
Carlos Alcantar Race Communications / Race Team Member 1325 Howard Ave. #604, Burlingame, CA. 94010 Phone: +1 415 376 3314 / [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> / http://www.race.com<http://www.race.com/> From: Sterling Jacobson via Af <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Reply-To: "[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>" <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Date: Friday, December 19, 2014 at 5:38 PM To: "[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>" <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Speedtest.net optomized for IE?? Interesting. I talked to Ookla about Gigabit, and they sent me information and some links to their stuff. I can get about 5-600Mbps locally to my machine, but I’ve got some work to do before it shows 960Mbps it should be doing. From: Af [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Chuck Hogg via Af Sent: Friday, December 19, 2014 6:14 PM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Speedtest.net optomized for IE?? http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/3998189472 I get 250x250...have multi-gig here... On our own directly connected, I get 780's-840's. Regards, Chuck On Fri, Dec 19, 2014 at 4:56 PM, Sterling Jacobson via Af <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: I just got my new speedtest.net<http://speedtest.net> server running with Dave's help. Thanks Dave! It's at http://avative.speedtest.net Can any of you get over 500Mbps to it? It has a 10Gbps adapter and sits on a 10Gbps circuit, but I think I've got something cutting it to 600Mbps... I also talked to Ookla and they know about a problem with Chrome on Windows where flash isn't allowing it to do the full Gbps. So for now use a Mac? Or use IE on windows if you have a Gigabit connection to test on speedtest.net<http://speedtest.net> -----Original Message----- From: Sterling Jacobson Sent: Monday, December 15, 2014 12:42 PM To: '[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>' Subject: RE: [AFMUG] Speedtest.net optomized for IE?? Good point, I'll check for that! Since Chrome pulls the same context on all my machines that I log into Google, that makes sense why it would affect more than just one. -----Original Message----- From: Af [mailto:[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>] On Behalf Of Chris Wright via Af Sent: Monday, December 15, 2014 9:58 AM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Speedtest.net optomized for IE?? Chrome plugins causing the drop, perhaps? Even naked Chrome runs pretty heavy on resources. Chris Wright Velociter Wireless -----Original Message----- From: Af [mailto:[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>] On Behalf Of Sterling Jacobson via Af Sent: Sunday, December 14, 2014 1:14 PM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Speedtest.net optomized for IE?? AFMUG server must have stripped the jpgs, because they are attached in the send folder, but when I received my own message the jpgs were gone. Anywho, I am seeing several hundred megs difference between IE and Chrome on several machine to several different servers in Utah. I get about 900Mbps both ways with IE and about 6-700Mbps in Chrome. -----Original Message----- From: Af [mailto:[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>] On Behalf Of Bill Prince via Af Sent: Friday, December 12, 2014 11:41 AM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Speedtest.net optomized for IE?? no attachment... -- bp <part {dash} 15 {at} SkylineBroadbandService {dot} com> On 12/12/2014 10:20 AM, Sterling Jacobson via Af wrote: > I'm not sure what is going on, but recently I've noticed Ookla has changed > speedtest.net<http://speedtest.net> so it works a lot better with IE. > > And it USED to work just fine with Chrome, but they changed something in the > past month. > > Anyone else seeing this? > > It's very apparent at Gigabit speeds, see attached. > > Same everything except using IE instead of Chrome. > > Noticed this on several machines and several host servers on > speedtest.net<http://speedtest.net> > >
