[arikrahman]

All it takes to defeat the business model is https://openspeedtest.com/

[jedberg]

That test was totally inaccurate for me. It got the download right but upload was only 1/12 of my rated speed and 1/12 of what all the other tests (and my actual experience) tell me.

[archb]

Same for me. The download speed was fine, but upload speed was 1.75x the actual one.

[girvo]

Same for me: download was okay, upload was completely wrong

[steve_adams_86]

My very limited experience in this space is that measuring uploads is actually quite a bit trickier and harder to nail down than download speeds

[arikrahman]

Perhaps you can audit the https://github.com/openspeedtest/Speed-Test codebase

[mbesto]

Or https://speed.cloudflare.com/

[arikrahman]

Moving from one proprietary solution to another defeats the purpose. That's why I linked a FOSS solution. The repo is here https://github.com/openspeedtest/Speed-Test

[swiftcoder]

Cloudflare's undercounts my download by 25% and my upload by 75% (versus both speedtest.net and my observed sustained data rates). Also reports double the latency.

[mbesto]

Undercounts it by what barometer?

[swiftcoder]

Versus versus my own measurement of sustained download/upload rates (this isn't rocket science - upload a 1 GB file to S3, download it again, time both). speedtest.net is within ~5% of my own test results, cloudflare isn't even in the ballpark.

[UqWBcuFx6NV4r]

evidently putting “open” in the name of a website doesn’t suddenly make it not-bad.

[arikrahman]

It is open. https://github.com/openspeedtest/Speed-Test