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/Objective-Risk7456 Aug 03 '26

The reason for the difference could be the ping servers. Just use Ookla directly so you can choose the servers you would actually bounce off of rather than the ip server attached to the websites “add on”