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Speed tests
Even though I've never had such an issue myself, I've often followed the threads in tech support about speed problems. Usually in one of first couple of replies will be instructions about running a...
Speedofme and similar apps are not reliable for satellite internet. Please use testmy.net for your speed tests, especially if you need support with speed issues, as testmy.net is required in order to escalate speed issues to corporate engineers.
maratsade wrote:Speedofme and similar apps are not reliable for satellite internet. Please use testmy.net for your speed tests, especially if you need support with speed issues, as testmy.net is required in order to escalate speed issues to corporate engineers.
I just tried that speedof.me. It was WAY off, as verified by networx. I tried it twice before starting networx, and the two tests were very similar. I think 3.6Mbps down and 3.9Mbps down, if I remember correctly. The uploads were 1.8Mbps (I think), 1.9Mbps. I didn't try the upload with testmy.net until just now, so it's not on the networx graph, but it was 2.8Mbps.
While networx was running, speedof.me gave me a result of 4.1Mbps down and 1.9Mbps up, whereas testmy.net gave me a result of 31.1Mbps down. This was with the VDS off, though I don't think it makes a difference with speedof.me.
