speed tests - good for anything?

9/5/2007 1:22:57 AM

not really.

9/5/2007 10:25:06 AM

It'll only really help confirm if something's seriously wrong. If you shut off all filesharing etc. and are getting dialup speeds, then you know something is fucked up. Of course, if you're getting dialup speeds you should realize something's wrong anyways. If everything's working properly, there's far too many limiting factors besides your connection for the speed quoted to be truly useful.

9/5/2007 10:35:49 AM

http://www.speedtest.net actually works really well, and I can run it from my PS3



Our ISP here at work is god the fuck awful

9/5/2007 10:38:18 AM

TESTED USING RECOMMENDED PYRAMID!




From our shitty att T1's

The road runner business class connection is super bad ass most of the time, but right now everything past new york is going on level3 which is just the worst ever.

Quote :

"TCP/Web100 Network Agnostic Tool v5.4.8 click START to begin Checking for Middleboxes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Done checking for firewalls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Done running 10s outbound test (client-to-server [C2S]) . . . . . 3.58Mb/s running 10s inbound test (server-to-client [S2C]) . . . . . . 12.74Mb/s The slowest link in the end-to-end path is a a 622 Mbps OC-12 subnet"

http://ndt.ncren.net:7123/

[Edited on September 5, 2007 at 11:06 AM. Reason : .]

9/5/2007 10:52:48 AM

dslreports speedtests are just a shitty metric. They typically don't mean crap if you have a fast connection (i.e. on a campus). They are designed for home broadband types of connections. The faster your connection, the less accurate they are. You also have to factor in the distance away from you the server is located and all the ISPs in between.

Not only that, but they are mostly eye candy with pretty little graphics that move showing you the dial go up and down. Try finding one as close to you as possible like that NDT link above (assuming you are in NC)

9/5/2007 11:32:03 AM

Shitty metrics, but this:

http://www.speedtest.net/global.php?continent=1&country=1®ion=62

really makes me wish we had comcast here instead.

9/5/2007 2:54:01 PM

From my office in Jordan Hall

9/5/2007 4:21:11 PM

17ms ping over ~350miles, on a comcast residential connection...
18Mb from my apt in Denver, CO i had a good 6Mb connection (comcast) in Arlington, VA too

[Edited on September 5, 2007 at 5:58 PM. Reason : .]

9/5/2007 5:56:41 PM

Oook, so I was getting about 6.5 mbit/s this afternoon and now I'm getting about 300 kbit/s. Looks like TWC has made it clear that after the promotional "free upgrade" to RR Turbo I will be selecting the regular roadrunner option. They don't even have enough fucking capacity to handle the appartment complex's after work traffic.

As I said earlier, these tools are good at confirming that something is fucked up at least. Same drop in speed with 3 different routers wireless or switch side. Yay.

[Edited on September 5, 2007 at 6:28 PM. Reason : ]

9/5/2007 6:27:52 PM

9/5/2007 6:29:33 PM

Anyone have some quick suggestions for how to tell if your router's being attacked? I'm not getting anything generated in my logs.

9/5/2007 6:31:55 PM

i wish i had my work's connection

44904 kb/s down

33442 kb/s up

9/5/2007 7:50:51 PM

<img src="http://www.speedtest.net/result/182309531.png">

[Edited on September 5, 2007 at 8:37 PM. Reason : p]

9/5/2007 8:37:08 PM

^ learn you some crazy code

9/5/2007 11:10:02 PM

thank god I'm not on dsl over 40 year old wires in the mountains anymore

9/5/2007 11:55:50 PM

in Wolf Village

9/6/2007 12:03:10 AM

ncsu cvm

9/6/2007 12:53:04 PM

oh wow look who hosts the Raleigh, NC speedtest.net site:

9/6/2007 9:56:34 PM