CharterTech1084

Let us examine some false information that TestMy.Net would like you to believe, but also let me clarify something before we start. Do I believe the test results are accurate on this site? Yes, to a degree. Now, the fact that this site says providers shouldn't have any part in the speed test process is ridiculous. Let me explain. Any service provider can only guarantee the speeds of their network, therefor we usually run speed tests that pull from our own servers. When you go off grid to different servers you take a journey across strange and far away lands. You cross other networks, other servers, and will get different paths at different times of day and night due to heavier or lighter internet traffic. Why should a provider like Spectrum or Comcast be to blame for slow speeds and poor connection when you are requesting information, or even a speed test, from someone else's network? Lets make it simple. If you bought a new car and the manufacturer promised that it would get 60MPG, that means under normal driving conditions, or keeping it on the smooth flat roads....in network. Now when you take that car across country, out of network, up and down mountains, back country roads, and mud holes...poorly maintained infrastructure, remote locations, bad servers...you let less MPG, or in our case Mbps. Are you gonna blame the car manufacturer for the lowered MPG when you took the car into strange locations? The bottom line is that any company can not be blamed for the performance of any outside networks. They can only be held responsible for their own network speeds. So in short, TestMy.Net is not testing your ISP against itself. It is testing your ISP along with every network along the way to the destination server, and then laying 100% of the blame on your ISP. If you are late to work, do you blame yourself and your car(assuming its in good working condition), or do you blame the condition of the roads and the traffic along your route to your final destination? Your boss blames you(TestMy.Net blames ISP), but you blame the conditions that you could not control. Smooth sailing until you get to the roads or near the destinations that everyone else is trying to get to. Even a Bugatti cant get you to work any faster when you travel on bad roads or in high congestion areas. Think about that. Your ISP spends money on its own maintenance and infrastructure. They don't give any thought to the health and performance of the competitors. It's a competition between companies, and any IPS can only guarantee advertised speeds when the internet traffic is processed in their own network.