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Ignitionnet 03-04-2015 17:32

New DSLReports speedtester
 
Just FYI.

http://www.dslreports.com/speedtest

It's tweakable too which is cool.

Sephiroth 03-04-2015 22:17

Re: New DSLReports speedtester
 
The upstream test always timed out for me on my VM circuit.

EDIT: Download showed my 154 meg.

Kymmy 03-04-2015 22:19

Re: New DSLReports speedtester
 
Seemed limited to 100Mb on my download but upload worked OK

Kushan 04-04-2015 16:07

Re: New DSLReports speedtester
 
That's a really nice test! I really like that one, much better than Speedtest.net. My only complaint is they don't have a nice simple image to share, best you get is this:

http://www.dslreports.com/speedtest/234317

Edit: Just to put this out there, testmy.net is decent as well, though it never ever shows me hitting my top speeds so I'm not sure if it's less reliable or just harsher about real world speeds:

https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/...2015/04/33.png

Kymmy 04-04-2015 16:17

Re: New DSLReports speedtester
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by Kymmy (Post 35769532)
Seemed limited to 100Mb on my download but upload worked OK

Now showing full speed

http://www.dslreports.com/speedtest/234358

qasdfdsaq 04-04-2015 20:40

Re: New DSLReports speedtester
 
http://www.dslreports.com/speedtest/235764

Seems OK. Not sure what the "Your link: Idle/Full" meter is supposed to mean, keeps flipping between 0, 4, and 100.

Ignitionnet 04-04-2015 21:01

Re: New DSLReports speedtester
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by qasdfdsaq (Post 35769727)
http://www.dslreports.com/speedtest/235764

Seems OK. Not sure what the "Your link: Idle/Full" meter is supposed to mean, keeps flipping between 0, 4, and 100.

I think it tries to calculate the line capacity based on highest transfer rate reached then tell you if you're hitting it or not.

It's in beta so I fully imagine it's buggy right now.

dragon 22-04-2015 16:16

Re: New DSLReports speedtester
 
http://www.dslreports.com/speedtest/341298 - I'm sure speed-testers love me skewing their results.

That was Plusnet FTTC balanced with VM 152.

qasdfdsaq 27-04-2015 12:02

Re: New DSLReports speedtester
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by Ignitionnet (Post 35769729)
I think it tries to calculate the line capacity based on highest transfer rate reached then tell you if you're hitting it or not.

It's in beta so I fully imagine it's buggy right now.

Looks like that dial has been changed to (or replaced by) a "Buffer bloat" dial. The buffer-bloat dial shows any increase in your latency during the test beyond idle latency, which I suspect was also used for the "line capacity" indicator.

Very good metric to display IMO, I wish more speedtest sites and diagnostics would use it - it's a very basic tool yet very important tool that most consumer sites seem to miss completely. It's practically the first check I do to determine if a link is saturated or not.

Ignitionnet 27-04-2015 19:43

Re: New DSLReports speedtester
 
The log is also very good, and I note it uses a few different servers depending on the number of streams in use.

Quote:

0.1s start test for Fiber
0.38s 4 locations to query
6.48s Google Europe is ~25ms
6.48s Dublin, Ireland, EU is ~32ms
6.48s Frankfurt, DE, EU is ~38ms
6.48s DE, EU is ~39ms
8.48s Starting download phase
8.5s doing 32 gets
16.93s stream0 mbits=1.87 DE, EU 1sec=1.7 20%
16.93s stream1 mbits=2.37 Frankfurt, DE, EU 1sec=1.43 1%
16.93s stream2 mbits=2.13 Dublin, Ireland, EU 1sec=2.81 1%
16.93s stream3 mbits=2.42 Google Europe 1sec=2.27 1%
16.93s stream4 mbits=1.49 DE, EU 1sec=1.59 1%
16.93s stream5 mbits=0.83 Frankfurt, DE, EU 1sec=0.81 0%
16.93s stream6 mbits=1.89 Dublin, Ireland, EU 1sec=1.38 1%
16.93s stream7 mbits=0.75 Frankfurt, DE, EU 1sec=1.06 0%
16.93s stream8 mbits=1.77 Google Europe 1sec=2.45 1%
16.93s stream9 mbits=2.22 Dublin, Ireland, EU 1sec=1.75 1%
16.93s stream10 mbits=1.32 Frankfurt, DE, EU 1sec=1.98 1%
16.93s stream11 mbits=1.49 DE, EU 1sec=1.98 1%
16.93s stream12 mbits=3.13 Google Europe 1sec=4.54 1%
16.93s stream13 mbits=1.3 DE, EU 1sec=2.37 1%
16.93s stream14 mbits=2.92 Dublin, Ireland, EU 1sec=2 1%
16.93s stream15 mbits=2.04 Dublin, Ireland, EU 1sec=2.93 1%
16.93s stream16 mbits=1.6 DE, EU 1sec=3.5 1%
16.93s stream17 mbits=2.92 Frankfurt, DE, EU 1sec=2.65 1%
16.93s stream18 mbits=1.35 Frankfurt, DE, EU 1sec=1.24 1%
16.93s stream19 mbits=1.3 Frankfurt, DE, EU 1sec=1.75 1%
16.93s stream20 mbits=2.19 Dublin, Ireland, EU 1sec=2.33 1%
16.93s stream21 mbits=2.46 Google Europe 1sec=1.54 1%
16.93s stream22 mbits=1.15 Frankfurt, DE, EU 1sec=0.81 0%
16.93s stream23 mbits=1.98 DE, EU 1sec=0.78 1%
16.93s stream24 mbits=1.75 DE, EU 1sec=3.64 1%
16.93s stream25 mbits=1.62 Frankfurt, DE, EU 1sec=2.28 1%
16.93s stream26 mbits=2.25 Google Europe 1sec=1.54 1%
16.93s stream27 mbits=1.52 Frankfurt, DE, EU 1sec=1.73 1%
16.93s stream28 mbits=1.59 Frankfurt, DE, EU 1sec=1.38 1%
16.93s stream29 mbits=1.92 Frankfurt, DE, EU 1sec=1.98 1%
16.93s stream30 mbits=1.78 DE, EU 1sec=1.64 1%
16.93s stream31 mbits=2.09 DE, EU 1sec=1.2 1%
22.24s Starting upload phase
38.03s stream0 (DE, EU) mbits=2.26
38.03s stream1 (Frankfurt, DE, EU) mbits=2.8
38.03s stream2 (Dublin, Ireland, EU) mbits=1.89
38.03s stream3 (Google Europe) mbits=1.64
38.03s stream4 (DE, EU) mbits=2.7
38.03s stream5 (Frankfurt, DE, EU) mbits=2.22
38.03s stream6 (Dublin, Ireland, EU) mbits=1.75
38.03s stream7 (Frankfurt, DE, EU) mbits=3.05
45.22s 6s past peak 18.41 not getting faster
45.22s END TEST
45.22s 10hz drop stats frames=8 total ms=2755
49.33s Total megabytes consumed: 128.4 (down:82.5 up:45.9)


---------- Post added at 18:43 ---------- Previous post was at 18:16 ----------

Quote:

Originally Posted by Kushan (Post 35769667)
That's a really nice test! I really like that one, much better than Speedtest.net. My only complaint is they don't have a nice simple image to share, best you get is this:

http://www.dslreports.com/speedtest/234317

They do now!

https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/local/2015/04/6.png

Kushan 27-04-2015 19:52

Re: New DSLReports speedtester
 
Ohhh snazzy!

https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/local/2015/04/5.png

qasdfdsaq 27-04-2015 20:51

Re: New DSLReports speedtester
 
Looks like the upload test isn't working anymore for me :(

https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/local/2015/04/3.png

Also it seems to use 32 streams on the download nomatter what, but the upload varies between 1 on my home connection and 24 on the above connection which oddly failed.

---------- Post added at 19:51 ---------- Previous post was at 19:45 ----------

Eh, looks like it was just Chrome on that machine, it works using IE:

https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/local/2015/04/4.png

Interestingly, the bufferbloat measurement doesn't show up in IE but does in Chrome, but either way I'm impressed it works seemingly without flash, java, or any other junk. The ping measurement is also way off in IE.

Currently a complete lack of UK locations though sadly. Looks like they use a combination of servers from Google, Amazon AWS, and NFOservers.com

Kushan 27-04-2015 21:04

Re: New DSLReports speedtester
 
I think the download/upload streams are determined by which you pick - cable is 24/8.

qasdfdsaq 27-04-2015 21:52

Re: New DSLReports speedtester
 
Must be more to it than that, I picked "fibre" on every machine and it used 1 upstream on one machine and 24 upstreams on another.

Ignitionnet 27-04-2015 22:35

Re: New DSLReports speedtester
 
I think it does a quick test with a small amount of data and from there decides on a number of streams.


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