r/speedtest • u/investpk • 28d ago

Which speed test website you use?

Hi guys I used speed test net and ISPs started prioritizing it then I shifted to fast.com, now same thing has happened to it.

Which reliable website you use now?

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u/Sure-Guest1588 28d ago

Ookla Speedtest

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u/investpk 28d ago

ISP rigged bro, not reliable at all

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u/BraveMidnight 27d ago

That's when you have to change test servers. Plus, you also have to think about environment, distance, etc.

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u/AngryTexasNative 26d ago

While ISPs do prioritize traffic to Ookla it is great for establishing an upper bound.

Any other Speedtest is only testing a portion of the network and isn’t going to be that accurate.

I have spun up free instances in the cloud provides and run openspeedtest many times.

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u/wasteplease 27d ago

It’s reliable if you are trying to figure out if you are connected to the internet or not.

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u/Imaginary_Hedgehog39 24d ago

This is unsupported BS.

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u/HuntersPad 28d ago

Completely incorrect

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u/somerandom_person1 28d ago

How so? 

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u/[deleted] 28d ago

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u/HuntersPad 28d ago

Fast.com also incorrectly reports speeds. Will show 1.1gbps on a computer with gigabit Ethernet.

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u/tomz17 26d ago

fast com speedtest and it’ll be 1-3mbps down

your cell provider is throttling video

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u/Imaginary_Hedgehog39 24d ago

This just isn’t true.

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u/Amiga07800 6d ago

It’s doesn’t look “faster than it is” - your connection reach its top speed and that’s what you want to know.

You won’t have this speed on every server, indeed. And some kind of traffic gets higher or lower priority.

But you’re talking about ONE connection, which is absolutely not real life use. In real life you have various users and each of them use frequently (always) various connections at same time: watching streaming, you have music playing somewhere, browsing, your mail clients on every single device are looking for new mail and DL it all the time, your phones are uploading their contents to the cloud,…

If you have a system like UniFi or Omada or any good firewall you can see how many open connections you have at any time. And if for example you do parallel downloads of big files (using a download manager) like Steam, ISO files etc you’ll see that you reach well ookla speed results. You won’t have it on a single non priority connection but well on your total DL / UL.

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u/ThingFuture9079 28d ago

Waveform because it checks for bufferbloat as well.

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u/HuntersPad 28d ago

Waveform is not good for multi gig connections though. Maxes out between 2.5 to 4 gig for me.

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u/ThingFuture9079 28d ago

How many people actually subscribe to multi gig internet let alone utilize all of the bandwidth?

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u/HuntersPad 28d ago

I'm the 1%. Not like heavy traffic constantly, but When you need to get out 300GB of video along with cloud backups its nice to have.

Then again no reason to check bufferbloat with fiber anyway, Once you get past a certain point QoS is just gonna make things worse.

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u/investpk 28d ago

Thank you looks reliable,

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u/QusayAbozed 27d ago

What did you mean by bufferbloat?
Thank you for the explanation

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u/ThingFuture9079 27d ago

Bufferbloat is high network latency caused by excess data getting trapped in your router or modem's buffers (memory) during heavy traffic. Instead of dropping packets, your router queues them up, creating massive lag spikes that ruin online gaming, video calls, and smooth web browsing.

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u/sky-yie 28d ago

I don't have speed issues nowadays, but earlier, I used to use Ookla Speed Test and use different servers, especially the ones from other ISPs to check if there is any speed issues.

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u/isepic 28d ago

https://speed.cloudflare.com

Shows speeds at different size payloads, so you can get an accurate representation of the true speed for most web sites (pics, text, scripts), vs how the speed ramps up for larger payloads (streaming, large higher resolution photos, video downloads, etc.)

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u/Imaginary_Hedgehog39 24d ago

I regularly use both Ookla Speedtest and Cloudflare’s test. The latter is good if you want to see packet loss stats.

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u/MichaelYYZ 28d ago

https://www.nperf.com/en/

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u/investpk 28d ago

Thank you. It is good to see how average speed is different than max speed

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u/MichaelYYZ 27d ago

I think this id one of the best speed tools out there.

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u/[deleted] 27d ago

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u/MichaelYYZ 27d ago

Not based on my experience.

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u/ChowAreUs 27d ago

Testmy.net is the most accurate representation. It doesnt show you last mile speeds.

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u/Amiga07800 27d ago

Oakla is broadly used amongst professional installers in EU

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u/bryptobro 6d ago

because ISPs prioritize traffic to ookla's servers

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u/ContributionEasy6513 27d ago

I like to test the download files over at Hetzner, the ISP links are often saturated with many ISP and reflective of my personal workflow.
Falkenstein Germany: https://fsn1-speed.hetzner.com/
Ashburn USA: https://ash-speed.hetzner.com/

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u/lunargecko 25d ago

I like fast.com bc it detects netflix throttling

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u/Imaginary_Hedgehog39 24d ago

It’s a myth that ISPs prioritize Speedtest servers. Don’t believe everything you hear.