On Mon, Nov 14, 2016 at 12:09:07PM -0600, o1bigtenor via talk wrote:
Greetings
I have been using www.testmy.net as a non-flash based (its html 5 IIUC) connection tester.
My ISP on the other hand believes that only flash based tests like Ookla's are any good.
Looking for thoughts and opinions on the differences between the two and which might actually be more accurate.
Well having just tried it, I think I would at least have to agree with your ISP that that site sucks for speedtesting. I just tried it at work, and speedtest.net shows download of 880Mbps, and upload of 944Mbps, while www.testmy.net shows 91Mbps down and 96Mbps up. Are they testing against a 100Mbps connection at their end or something? That's useless. Now https://sourceforge.net/speedtest/?source=slashdotannouncement is also HTML5 based and at least it manages to get close to the speedtest.net speeds, although it is rather big in variance and does not quite get the full speed. So at least so far, I would say your ISP is right. So perhaps for low end connections it would be OK, but it sure doesn't work for faster ones at this point in time. -- Len Sorensen