On 3/8/23 12:08, Alvin Starr via talk wrote:

As I like to point out the Carriers all manipulate traffic to speed test sites to make performance look better.

Download an ISO image for your favorite OS and use that as your benchmark.

Try using the newest test, at any given time.  From bufferbloat.net, the newest is from waveform.  My most recent results are as follows.

 It's possible to detect a test, of course, by watching to see who has a test and collecting all their IP address ranges ranges, but then you have to have the excess capacity to give them better service than anyone else. All of them!

I prefer to use flent, but that's for serious stuff (;-))

--dave

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