further discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11722775
This could be useful from a residential last mile customer point of view, to expose ISPs which have good peering/low congestion to speedtest.net but might have less than optimal routing to Netflix. Or an ISP that is flat topping the traffic charts on an N x 10GbE link to netflix somewhere in the intermediate path. Some people will see radically different results from speetest vs this new Netflix test during peak evening hours. On Wed, May 18, 2016 at 3:24 PM, Nate Burke <[email protected]> wrote: > Just came across this https://fast.com. Utility from netflix. Torching > it looks like it opens 3 HTTPS connections to 3 different IP Addresses to > run the test. Only reports download speed, no Latency or Upload. >
