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Re:Speed.cloudflare.com by owenmarshall on Tuesday May 26, 2020 @03:02PM (#23315135)
Netflix has an advantage: their OCA boxes may handle speed test traffic [1]. That means a box racked at your ISP[2] may be serving that traffic. While Cloudflare may have nice peering agreements, they don't have that.

[1]: https://netflixtechblog.com/building-fast-com-4857fe0f8adb

[2]: https://openconnect.netflix.com/en/#what-is-open-connect

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Re:Speed.cloudflare.com by js2 on Tuesday May 26, 2020 @03:05PM (#23315164)
How does that explain me getting solid results from DSL Reports, Ookla to a random server I picked in Ashburn, and to Google Fiber's servers in Atlanta, Charlotte, and locally.

I think there's something about the methodology of Cloudflare's test.

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Re:Speed.cloudflare.com by owenmarshall on Tuesday May 26, 2020 @03:08PM (#23315205)
My point is limited to "fast.com could give faster results because you may not even leave your ISP to talk to them"; I'm not here to say "Cloudflare's results are good/bad/better/worse/reliable/unreliable."

A thought, though: Cloudflare reports your p90 time as "your speed". I don't know what the other sites report. Is it the same?

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