For Toronto, they tested from a well-respected nearby ISP (Tek Savvy, originally from my home town, Chatham) --dave On 18/05/16 10:59 PM, jb wrote: > I had a quick look, it just does some parallel XHR fetches over port > 80 from their server, which at least ( for me ) was not located at my > nearest amazon/netflix POP, but is located in the USA at a 200ms ping > time, so the speed reading was slow to ramp up, and lower than it > should be. > > They instrument it and collect info but only report the download speed > to the user in megabits. I'm following a topic in neogaf in which > various people are running it, and it either gives about the same > result as speedtest.net or a lessor result (probably if the user is > further from california). > > They may start adding local servers or may not. It doesn't measure or > report latency or upload speed or anything else. Its main virtue is > the short domain name, and that it starts immediately on page load, > and finally because it is quite simple, it has wider browser > compatibility. > > > On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 5:51 AM, David Lang wrote: >> /. is talking about a new speed test to show your download speed. It doesn't >> show upload speeds or ping time. >> >> David Lang >> _______________________________________________ >> Bloat mailing list >> Bloat@lists.bufferbloat.net >> https://lists.bufferbloat.net/listinfo/bloat > _______________________________________________ > Bloat mailing list > Bloat@lists.bufferbloat.net > https://lists.bufferbloat.net/listinfo/bloat -- David Collier-Brown, | Always do right. This will gratify System Programmer and Author | some people and astonish the rest davecb@spamcop.net | -- Mark Twain