[brahma-dev]

Not very scientific but you can try something that is unlikely to be whitelisted.

Eg. http://134.209.196.181:8080 This is an instance of https://github.com/e7d/speedtest running on Digital Ocean in Amsterdam.

[femto113]

Interesting. Using Wave broadband in Seattle from this server I get

    38.69 Mbps Download
   154.43 Mbps Upload

While from speedtest.net (to a local server) I get

   178.34 Mbps Download
   192.23 Mbps Upload

I'd chalk it up to distance/noise except that the download speeds are way more similar than the upload speeds.

[kristopolous]

I'm in Los Angeles. My downstream is half using this tool compared to the one built into Google.

That's reasonable, actually pretty impressive for talking to Amsterdam

It's hard to really comprehend how amazing it is that I can talk to Europe at 200M/s over WiFi from my personal apartment on my smartphone while lying in bed in Los Angeles, and pay a flat rate that works out to about $2.25/day for the privilege.

It's just absurd. It's pretty easy to forget how much of a future world we live in

[belter]

Amsterdam is a kind of special case as its where major internet providers peer with each other via the AMS-IX

https://www.ams-ix.net/ams

You should try if possible connections to other pages in other countries.

[jshier]

Or just running iperf on a personal server. I use that to diagnose differences between raw UDP / TCP throughput and HTTP.