So something to consider is - the test sites use tcp which has ack’s and signaling based on those but the mikrotik btest defaults to udp which has none of that. btest udp is a measure of pps but not of the round trip like tcp.
You are not so far away that you can’t use our site at vaskywire.speedtest.net Justin Miller VA SkyWire, LLC 3114 W Marshall St, Ste A Richmond, VA 23230 Office: (804) 521-4212 Desk: (804) 591-0500 ext 101 Fax: (804) 591-1559 [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > On Nov 1, 2016, at 12:42 PM, Ethan E. Dee via Mikrotik-users > <[email protected]> wrote: > > I have a very strange issue that I've not seen before and it's got my head > spinning. > It has to do with sites like speedtest.net and speedtest.xfinity.com. > We have a tower site where if I plug my laptop in to the tower on the switch > (connected 1gig Full) or anywhere in the public or private network extending > off that switch, speedtest.net will show 8-13mb/s up and down. Sometimes will > burst to 20-30mb/s for a second and then drop. > I have tried a few speedtest sites and gotten the same results. Also it's > regardless of time of day and who else is on. > Now if I run the mikrotik speedtest from that tower location or behind any > CPE to the core bgp routers a few hops away, I get about 50-80 on the > download (depending on other factors). > I thought surely the mikrotik speedtest were just lying, but then as I check > every stat and graph all the way to the core, sure enough it is actually > pulling that. > To make matters worse, I found a free mikrotik bandwidth test server online > so that the bandwidth test has to go out through the internet. Just in case > it was my upstream providers causing issues. > Got the same 50-80mb/s no problem using that test. > Can anyone try to explain what I'm running into? I can't find a pattern. > Except that I can prove the capacity is there by using the bandwidth test on > mikrotik. But speedtest.net is a big discouragement to me and my customers > are asking questions. We've tried several servers and sites. Same results. > > Attached are some resulting screenshots. In one of the mikrotik screenshots > you'll see the tx at around 10mb/s that is what I limited it to for that test > to try to get a higher number on the download side. > The second screenshot is letting them both run wide open. Also disregard the > graphs as I started and stopped the test and changed settings a number of > times that's why it is so dynamic. > > > -- > This message has been scanned by E.F.A. Project and is believed to be clean. > > > <Speedtest sites.zip><Mikrotik > Tests.zip>_______________________________________________ > Mikrotik-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/mikrotik-users
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