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Selecting best server based on ping...
Hosted by Monashee Mountain Multimedia (Revelstoke, BC) [196.14 km]: 61.974 ms
Testing download speed................................................................................
Download: 5.79 Mbit/s
Testing upload speed....................................................................................................
Upload: 1.00 Mbit/s
Yes, I know it's slow but Internet is expensive here and I can live with this.
russel@debian-nuc:~$ speedtest-cli
Retrieving speedtest.net configuration...
Testing from SimpleLink (xxx.xxx.xx.xx)...
Retrieving speedtest.net server list...
Selecting best server based on ping...
Hosted by Line Systems (West Chester, PA) [137.61 km]: 83.369 ms
Testing download speed................................................................................
Download: 10.70 Mbit/s
Testing upload speed....................................................................................................
Upload: 21.33 Mbit/s
interesting that my upload speed is about double the download speed.
user@server:~$ speedtest-cli
Retrieving speedtest.net configuration...
Retrieving speedtest.net server list...
Testing from ****** (**.***.***.***)...
Selecting best server based on latency...
Hosted by wilhelm.tel (Norderstedt) [18.59 km]: 22.128 ms
Testing download speed........................................
Download: 93.44 Mbits/s
Testing upload speed..................................................
Upload: 79.99 Mbits/s
russel@debian-nuc:~$ speedtest-cli
Retrieving speedtest.net configuration...
Testing from SimpleLink (xxx.xxx.xx.xx)...
Retrieving speedtest.net server list...
Selecting best server based on ping...
Hosted by Comcast (Baltimore, MD) [139.59 km]: 103.526 ms
Testing download speed................................................................................
Download: 9.94 Mbit/s
Testing upload speed....................................................................................................
Upload: 22.92 Mbit/s
Be aware of the section titled "Inconsistency" at https://github.com/sivel/speedtest-cli
I just tested with both speedtest-cli and Speedtest beta and got similar download speeds but very different ping and upload. This was expected as I also recently compared 4 web-based test sites and got different results every time even with multiple consecutive uses of the same test.
Bottom line is speed tests will only give ball-park results.
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Those who have lost data
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Retrieving speedtest.net server list...
Selecting best server based on ping...
Hosted by xxxxx(Billings, MT) [73.05 km]: xxxxxx
Testing download speed................................................................................
Download: 7.58 Mbit/s
Testing upload speed....................................................................................................
Upload: 1.53 Mbit/s
Billings is south of us by about 110 miles! pretty slow on the upload!
jppattison wrote:..., I was wondering if we were getting what we were promised - I don't think so ....
You should double check your terms of service, generally they list speeds as up to, since many things can affect actual speed at any given time. Internet congestion, busy server that you are communicating with, rerouteing due to hardware issues on the shortest path, others. Even things like time of day can matter. It is often on non-commercial accounts that upload is significantly lower than download speed.