On Fri, Aug 25, 2023 at 7:39 AM Alvin Starr via talk <talk@gtalug.org> wrote:
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.
I know that Bell has tuned their traffic management rules to prioritize speed test sites.
I would be very surprised if Rogers is not also doing the same thing.
The Bell and Rogers hosted sites are the most likely to take advantage of traffic management to enhance their stats. So you may get results that are close to the maximum that the network can support but nowhere near what the network is able to deliver under its current load.
Network performance testing is best done with tools like iperf.
I found a website called testmy.net that seems to do a very good job. Gives graphing of the results and shows the variability of connection quite well imo. HTH