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 <david@lang.hm> 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
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