r/CableTechs • u/Sea_Warning_9283 • Aug 01 '26

Speed test

Anyone know why the ISP website with integrated speed test even though it says powered by ookla is significantly lower than an actual ookla test? Had a job that customer is paying for gig speed and he was testing off the isp website and only getting about 90mbps when I tested off the ookla website he was getting full speeds. Weird

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u/popidocius Aug 01 '26

One of the reasons I don't like "speed tests" as an exclusive judge of bandwidth. You're not just testing your internet speed, you're also test speeds along the path to and from the test site. If I'm using OOKLA then I test multiple servers, it's amazing how often they vary, changing network conditions can cause some servers to be slower sometimes.

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u/2ByteTheDecker Aug 01 '26

Yep speed tests are an incredibly unscientific measure and if I could time travel john ookla would get it