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This must be the absolute end all be all 'thought' on ISP 'acceptable' throughput I've read yet.

Hi, I pay 10$ /month for unlimited download/upload, and I have an actual speed of 100/90 Mbits/s upload/download
This speed is sustained and has high quality and low latency all across the board.
 
Check this provider, RDS/RCS Romania - Only available there, of course, but puts to shame about 90% of the world
 
PS: After a double check, you can after all have 500 Mbps Download and 200Mbps Upload in a single pack, with an appropriate router that the Telco will provide, and all of that for 39 RON, which is about 10$
Here's the link, and I've lived there for a couple of years and never had (or heard of) any performance issues in internet access from anyone. Top quality service at a truly fair price.
Link: http://www.rcs-rds.ro/internet-digi-net/fiberlink?t=internet-fix&pachet=digi_net_fiberlink_500&id_pachet=13&pas=rezumat_comanda
 

Ha, was just posting a SS you beat me to it lol
 
Now check this out.
 
Weather in a shell w/ a couple keystrokes? No problem.
 
curl wttr.in/Denver?u  

 
Yea. I like running root for such things, why not? XD

Slow Connection for me. I wish there was a 500MB file size.
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https://testmy.net/db/D0AdSOhMB

https://testmy.net/quickstats/OsakanHime

...the dial-up bbs days never ended!

Ha, was just posting a SS you beat me to it lol
 
Now check this out.
 
Weather in a shell w/ a couple keystrokes? No problem.
 
curl wttr.in/Denver?u  

 
Yea. I like running root for such things, why not? XD

To see the current phase of the moon:
curl wttr.in/Moon  
Or even better a specific date:
curl wttr.in/Moon@2016-July-21

Here is the data for Shaw Communication at testmy.net
 
https://testmy.net/host-history/shaw_communications

Here is the data for Telus at testmy.net
 
https://testmy.net/host-history/telus_communications

Complete Data for Telus at testmy.net
 
You can find charts for each provider, by going to 'Database Lookup'
You can also search many variables between providers, rank, end user or member rank. 

Hi Sheila,
 Yes exactly. Many people simply reduce the window or open a new tab, or new browser window while the auto test is running.
 
Once you close the window, or tab the test is running in , the test will be terminated.

Running pfsense on an HP box with 4-GB nics split by a cisco 2924-xl for local KVM acess ect, a DGS-1224G GB switch, one card to a wtr54g with ddwrt, a wap11 which acts as a repeater.
 
I pulled cat6 through this old plastered house and dropped GB nics in all the machines. The wireless is controlled through 'captive portal' ( which plays hell on the kids 3dsx hahah ) on the pfsense appliance for external access. All hardware devices are on seperate subnets from any servers and or wireless networks. Using turnkey PDC to keep things in order.

It's Showtime...
 
Part 1 - Browsing the web and a 10MB download on Three (4G) and Meteor (3G):
 
 
Part 2 - So what does Ookla Speedtest report?  Can TestMy be run in a way to match it?  Let's find out...
 
 

Over the past week or so, I'm no longer able to access TestMy over port 8080.  HTTPS works fine.
 
As of the 30th April 2016, the EU rules on net neutrality came into force.  This means that all that traffic must be treated equally regardless of the source and destination and that ISPs are no longer permitted to block and throttle traffic. 
 
In previous tests I carried out on the Irish Three mobile network (mobile data on Smartphones) and the UK ISP Pulse8 broadband, there was a vast difference between the throughput I got over normal HTTP compared with port 8080 that Ookla's Speedtest uses. 
 
If port 8080 can be enabled again on TestMy, I'll have a go at making a video capture of running tests on TestMy compared to accessing it over port 8008 as well as two third party tests on my phone with the Three network, e.g. Leaseweb test file (normal HTTP download) against running Speedtest.net (which uses port 8080).  If there's a clear variation, I'll put it on YouTube. 

Since moving half way across the country recently, i've been busy lately but here is my new connection from florida. keep in mind its cable net but i do live in a damn forest lol. literally!
 

Just changed my ISP. Getting really good speeds!

I see significant differences amongst the test sites. DC is significantly faster than Dallas, for example. I live in Nashville.
That said does that have anything to do with my service? Where does my provider (comcast) connect me? I hope I'm being clear...
https://testmy.net/compID/677523761700

I've got boxes running several places, a few in production and quite a few in residential applications. Rarely, as in hardly ever any more does one of them complain. The more you do with them they more you'll want to do.
One of them had an uptime of around 10 months until recently when I ran the 2.3 RC version on it. The local box is still running the nightly, I should get that up to date.

This is awesome!!!! time to go upgrade my two routers!. I currently have two set up in hyper-v VM's with one of them configured as a backup. Looking foward to playing around with the new GUI!

We are happy to announce the release of pfSense® software version 2.3!
The most significant changes in this release are a rewrite of the webGUI utilizing Bootstrap, and the underlying system, including the base system and kernel, being converted entirely to FreeBSD pkg. The pkg conversion enables us to update pieces of the system individually going forward, rather than the monolithic updates of the past.  The webGUI rewrite brings a new responsive look and feel to pfSense requiring a minimum of resizing or scrolling on  a wide range of devices from desktop to mobile phones.
For the highlights, check out the Features and Highlights video. Past blog posts have covered some of the changes, such as the performance improvements from tryforward, and the webGUI update.
The full list of changes is on the 2.3 New Features and Changes page.
To get to a release, we’ve closed 760 total tickets.  While the majority of these were related to the Bootstrap conversion, 137 are fixed bugs impacting 2.2.6 and earlier releases.
Source
He doesn't really wake up and realise he's doing a video until around the 2:15 mark; fyi

 
 
 
 
 
People, check it out, start a VM locally and have at it. Run the live version, just have a look at what this thing can do for you and your control over what comes in and what does not. Good stuff!
 

I never claimed BSD was Linux - only that I used the Linux router. Totally separate project that pre-dated m0n0wall and pfSense, and is now defunct.
m0n0wall was started by the same people as pfSense, yes, and it's now officially closed. Chris Buechler is the main guy at pfSense, and a couple of other folks help with answering questions on the forum and writing and updating documentation. It was begun in order to provide a platform that was more feature-rich and would scale to server-class hardware.
 
I used, and still use, ssh for console access whenever possible. Telnet's not at all secure, and ssh has way more features. My office has a static IP, and I created rules in pfSense to let traffic through from that IP on ports 22 and 443...and others, if some special need warranted. I very seldom had anything come up that I couldn't manage through the pfSense web UI.

pfSense is to the point of replacing Cisco equipment in rather large production sites. As you should well know.
 
Before I started with it, I relied on whatever tomato or DD-wrt had going for it, not downplaying them, just required a bit more.
 
Now I use it in three production environments myself, I'm a bit concerned though to be honest, it does it's job so well, I've come to rely on it. Top notch stuff!
 
Been running the nightly since 2.3 was at night lol

I used the Linux router, way back in '99 or so. Compiled onto a floppy and booted from that in read-only mode. It was a bit fussy about NICs and had no admin UI, but it worked. m0n0wall was good, but pfSense is truly gold-standard open source software, right up there with the best Linux distros, MySQL, the various Apache server products. I used to have a side business setting up and administering firewalls, routers, IPSec VPNs, captive portals, etc. for small businesses. Needless to say, pfSense was my go-to platform for most of that. I re-branded the web UI with my own logo and colors, so clients thought I was a real wizard.

Been running pfSense since 1.something; ran m0n0wall before that. Just upgraded from (I think) 2.2.6. So far, so good. Web GUI is vastly improved, and scales well to my phone. Very nice work by Chris Buechler and crew. I encourage folks to try pfSense. It's a real-deal firewall/router that does everything you'll likely need it to do and a whole lot more. Excellent community support.

The one and only reason Ookla is even remotely available on the net today, is the simple fact first of all, they have the ISP insiders market flooded.
 
Who else knowing, would harbor a flash base script within their internal network, unless the ends outweighed the means, or likelihood of an infiltration. If your confident enough to allow this thing to live within your public network, than obviously you've got said network protected. Fair enough right? That type of ISP network protection would likely come at the cost of the consumer. If for no other reason than isolation, which is the complete antithesis of the meaning to testing throughput across networks, that at the very least represents what the intentions are for the masses taking the test.
 
Secondly the ISP know well the entire idea of a test being run on any high level network, is useless and nothing more than a 'feel good' item.
 
These tests of Ookla, should be completely isolated on a per ISP level, if they must be used at all. Of course they are useful for tech to determine if there is or not an issue between modem/ head end (or wherever these flash tests are living). No?