My suspicion is that people observe that something doesn't work or
something is loading slowly. Then they run the speed test and find a
reason not to like what they see.
I think some folks run the speed test while their video is buffering and
don't understand that while video is buffering, some of the speed is
being used by that. Or web browsing is slow because of issues on their
PC and then they run the speed test and get 5mbps and decide that's not
enough....perhaps because they saw or read something that told them they
need 10 or 50 or 100.
On 9/30/2015 2:39 PM, Mathew Howard wrote:
I have serious doubts that most people could even tell the difference
between 10mbps and 50mbps without running a speedtest (aside from
large downloads)... They just need to run speedtests constantly to
make sure their evil ISP isn't cheating them.
On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 12:58 PM, Ken Hohhof <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
I am starting to hate the obsession with speedtests. Recently we
cut the burst from 100 MBytes to about 6 MBytes (actually 8
seconds worth) at one tower while doubling everyone’s sustained
speeds. Previously this tower had Trango APs and the highest
burst speed you could get was about 8 Mbps, but when we upgraded
to 450 the speedtests temporarily went to 30-50 Mbps.
Of course we got whining from people who saw their speedtests drop
to merely what they were paying for. Didn’t matter that we
doubled their sustained speed, which is a huge deal for video
streaming. And that speeds are consistent even at peak usage
times. Plus a 6 MByte burst is enough that most websites should
still load at max speed available.
It’s like some people get Internet just to run speedtests, rather
than real traffic. Are some people addicted to speedtest.net
<http://speedtest.net>?
*From:* Daniel White <mailto:[email protected]>
*Sent:* Wednesday, September 30, 2015 10:27 AM
*To:* [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
*Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] 50mbps is faster than 85% of the rest of
the country?
Just got this… and yes this is my home internet connection
http://www.speedtest.net/result/4706527705.png
I wonder what speed you need to get about the 85% benchmark.
Thank you,
Daniel White
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*From:* Af [mailto:[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>] *On Behalf Of *Rory Conaway
*Sent:* Wednesday, September 30, 2015 8:45 AM
*To:* [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
*Subject:* [AFMUG] 50mbps is faster than 85% of the rest of the
country?
This was a speedtest taken by one of my customers this morning.
The thing that surprised me was the 85% number. I’m not sure of
the source of the data but if that’s correct, then there is a huge
opportunity that we all need to be looking at. In this case, it’s
a lowly Nanostation Loco M5 to an older XM Rocket. Even though
there is about 40 customers on it, it wasn’t under a lot of load
when this was taken. But the point is, 50Mbps is a relatively
easy number to hit with 802.11ac and it also means, 85% of the
country is where we need to be competing.
*Rory Conaway **• Triad Wireless •**CEO*
*4226 S. 37^th Street • Phoenix • AZ 85040*
*O 602-426-0542 <tel:602-426-0542>*
*www.triadwireless.net <http://www.triadwireless.net/> *
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