Hi Dave,
well, it was a free service and it lasted a long time. I want to raise a toast
to Justin and convey my sincere thanks for years of investing into the "good"
of the internet.
Now, the question is which test is going to be the rightful successor?
Short of running netperf/irtt/iper2/iperf3 on a hosted server, I see lots of
potential but none of the tests are really there yet (grievances in now
particular order):
OOKLA: speedtest.net.
Pros: ubiquitious, allows selection of single flow versus multi-flow
test, allows server selection
Cons: only IPv4, only static unloaded RTT measurement, no control over
measurement duration
BUFFERBLOAT verdict: incomplete, maybe usable as load generator
NETFLIX: fast.com.
Pros: allows selection of upload testing, supposedly decent back-end,
duration configurable
allows unloaded, loaded download and loaded upload RTT
measurements (but reports sinlge numbers for loaded and unloaded RTT, that are
not the max)
Cons: RTT report as two numbers one for the loaded and one for unloaded
RTT, time-course of RTTs missing
BUFFERBLOAT verdict: incomplete, but oh, so close...
NPERF: nperf.com
Pros: allows server selection, RTT measurement and report as time
course, also reports average rates and static RTT/jitter for Up- and Download
Cons: RTT measurement for unloaded only, reported RTT static only , no
control over measurement duration
BUFFERBLOAT verdict: incomplete,
THINKBROADBAND: www.thinkbroadband.com/speedtest
Pros: IPv6, reports coarse RTT time courses for all three measurement
phases
Cons: only static unloaded RTT report in final results, time courses
only visible immediately after testing, no control over measurement duration
BUFFERBLOAT verdict: a bit coarse, might work for users within a
reasonable distance to the UK for acute de-bloating sessions (history reporting
is bad though)
honorable mentioning:
BREITBANDMESSUNG: breitbandmessung.de
Pros: query of contracted internet access speed before measurement,
with a scheduler that will only start a test when the backend has sufficient
capacity to saturate the user-supplied contracted rates, IPv6 (happy-eyeballs)
Cons: only static unloaded RTT measurement, no control over measurement
duration
BUFFERBLOAT verdict: unsuitable, exceot as load generator, but the
bandwidth reservation feature is quite nice.
Best Regards
Sebastian
> On May 1, 2020, at 18:44, Dave Taht <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> https://www.reddit.com/r/HomeNetworking/comments/gbd6g0/dsl_reports_speed_test_no_longer_free/
>
> They ran out of bandwidth.
>
> Message to users here:
>
> http://www.dslreports.com/speedtest
>
>
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