We pulled a trick on our customers for awhile, we cached speedtest.net and
speakeasy.net/speedtest then did a dns redirect locally to our local
speedtest servers which we made look identical to the site they went to, so
we could save upstream bandwidth and the customer would get better results..

Ryan

On Sun, Sep 12, 2010 at 5:29 PM, RickG <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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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