On 2023-08-24 10:50, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote:
Rogers and Bell have web sites for testing your internet speed. The advantage of using one should be that it is a pretty pure test of the ISP's infrastructure.
TL;DR: run the test from a fast computer.
When I used Bell's speed test on my own router (remember that it runs Fedora 38 and thus has FireFox and Chromium) the results were disappointing. Half or two-thirds of my promised speed.
The problem turns out to be the web page itself.
Some thing is either very wrong with the web page, you need a better browser or something else was running in the background that affected performance. My "slow" AMD FX8320 computer is able to use the Rogers speed test page and the numbers I got are about what I expected to see. One should not need a "fast" computer just to run a speedtest. The only reason I just thought of is that perhaps your internet speed is exceptionally high and that makes the speed of your Internet connection sensitive to the browser and your computer system. -- Cheers! Kevin. https://www.patreon.com/KevinCozens | "Nerds make the shiny things that | distract the mouth-breathers, and Owner of Elecraft K2 #2172 | that's why we're powerful" #include <disclaimer/favourite> | --Chris Hardwick