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Re:Speed.cloudflare.com by js2 on Tuesday May 26, 2020 @04:13PM (#23315882)
It depends what you want to measure of course. I provided results to a variety of servers besides my local fast.com and speedtest.net server. As well, I'm familiar with what speeds I get when downloading Xcode, when pulling binaries via Usenet, etc. The results from Cloudflare indicate to me a bottleneck on their end, and something is especially wonky with the upload result.

I get 860-910 Mbps down/ 180-372 Mbps up to NYC[1-3], TOR1, but I have to test using Chrome. Running the DO test under Safari is pegging the CPU on a Macbook Pro 2.7 Ghz i7. (The other speed tests run fine under Safari.)

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Re:Speed.cloudflare.com by arghwhat on Tuesday May 26, 2020 @05:13PM (#23316463)
Indeed, their tests are currently wonky. I get 10% of my regular upload capacity, and 30-50% of my download through their test, despite testing to a Cloudflare location within the same city as myself.

I just wanted to ensure that we correctly discredited useless numbers and focused on the interesting ones instead.

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