[Cialug] speedtest-cli lies!!!

L. V. Lammert lvl at omnitec.net
Thu Aug 20 15:05:09 UTC 2020


On Thu, 20 Aug 2020, Andrew Denner wrote:

> I would be hesitant to trust any of it's results for making decisions
> with.A possible alternative (but appears to not be free as in libre) is
> thespeedtest.net cli binary https://www.speedtest.net/apps/cli
>
Don't understand how, but the speedtest version from Ookla is 1.0.0, ..
the one installed from packages is 1.0.7.

Also looks like the problem is not limited to a single system/connection,
..  seeing the same issue on Spectrum and our EOC (i.e. Upload speed WAY
off from the web interface).

Heading for iperf now, .. thanks!


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