On Fri, Aug 25, 2023 at 7:39 AM Alvin Starr via talk <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 2023-08-24 10:50, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: > > Rogers and Bell have web sites for testing your internet speed. The > > advantage of using one should be that it is a pretty pure test of the > > ISP's infrastructure. > > > I know that Bell has tuned their traffic management rules to prioritize > speed test sites. > > I would be very surprised if Rogers is not also doing the same thing. > > The Bell and Rogers hosted sites are the most likely to take advantage > of traffic management to enhance their stats. > So you may get results that are close to the maximum that the network > can support but nowhere near what the network is able to deliver under > its current load. > > > Network performance testing is best done with tools like iperf. > I found a website called testmy.net that seems to do a very good job. Gives graphing of the results and shows the variability of connection quite well imo.
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