/r/speedtest is a community for the purpose of discovering how to make Internet connections faster.

Speedtest showed the full speed we were paying for, but I could never get anywhere near that speed when downloading from anywhere else. It was barely usable but we were locked into a contract.

With me, I have received BETTER results from speedtest.net as opposed to Fast.com speedtest. Make sure you are choosing your CLOSEST server on Speedtest, otherwise it affects the.

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Sorry to clarify I mean the WiFiman app and Speedtest app both from iPhone on same AP - results vary much like the OP, terrible speeds on wifiman but perfect (expected) on speed test.

Basically like how speedtest.net works, except I want to point it towards my own server so i can test my speed towards the server from elsewhere? It has to be a web application.

I tried speedtest.net on chrome on my phone and I get 160mbps. I went to microsoft store to download speedtest.net app on my laptop and I also get 700mbps+. Why is there such a major.

Note the Xfinity "speedtest" shows the "speed to your gateway" - your gateway is your router, meaning you're basically testing the speed of your WLAN. Netflix runs speedtest.net (though I.

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Which internet speed test is trusted and why is there such a variance between them? I used ookla, fast.com, and googles internet speed test which gave me the corresponding 160mbps, 250mbps,.

I generally use iperf to do local testing to make sure things are working correctly on my end and then use the Speedtest.net CLI to test out to the internet. I usually manually set the test.

There's also these MikroTik public btest servers that I found to be more accurate than any other speed test site. Obviously only any good if you have MikroTik equipment though.