We tell them its all dependent on the remote side, And its a very bad way to gauge speed. The local florida speedtest.net servers suck... Even from our colo I only get like 40Mb/s down, But like 68Mb/s up, Its stupid. We just host the mini speedtest.net in our colo and tell them to test that, And that the server sits right next to fiber, so if they can get xMb/s to it, That is how fast the internet will go. When they argue that our fiber is "overloaded" (its not) and we need to buy more because they can only pull 2Mb/s from example.com we disagree with them and tell them we can't do anything once its off our network, But its not a load issue.
Nick Olsen Network Operations (877) 804-3001 x106 ---------------------------------------- From: "RickG" <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, September 12, 2010 7:28 PM To: "WISPA General List" <[email protected]> Subject: [WISPA] speed test OK for all your speed hungry customers that want to run speed tests to speedtest.net and dslreports.com - the question is: what do you do? I've never really had good results with off net speed tests even when removing the load and running directly t from my laptop to my fiber connection. But I get these people who think they're not getting what they pay for :( -RickG
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