I understand the vendors may optimize parameters, but I figured that
UofToronto wouldn't be affected by that, and the numbers were comparable...
but perhaps they tune at a different point in the pipeline.

../Dave

On Fri, 25 Aug 2023 at 17:14, o1bigtenor <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Fri, Aug 25, 2023 at 10:06 AM David Mason <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > Speedtest (the app) gives consistent results for a variety of test
> sites, including UofToronto, Bell Canada, Primus. All are significantly
> higher numbers than testmy.net (320Down, 450Up versus 190Down, 215Up on
> testmy.net Toronto site).
> >
> >
> AIUI 'speedtest' is most often optimized by the various vendors to
> give 'great looking numbers'.
> Testmy.net, imo anyway, seem to be more 'real world numbers.
> The graphs of the test I find very very revealing - - - - after a
> while one gets a really good idea of the
> connection possibilities.
>
> Thanks for sharing
>
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