Spicehead-venp3 wrote:Oh and don't listen to people saying " should give you good results". No one has complained about our network speeds here unless I'm "fixing" the network and it is down. If I test at night when the wife and 2 kids are all streaming Youtube and Netflix, then it goes to about 250 Mbps on that same wired desktop. My wired desktop gets around 950 Mbps on a good day, but usually 800 Mbps if I test it during the day. Just for reference, at my house (ATT gigabit fiber) I get ~500Mbs download and ~300 Mbs upload from my laptop on wifi (wifi 6 AP and laptop). That will be a different number than every employee running a speed test from their workstation at the same time. If you have one person test the internet speed from a wired computer while no one else is using the network. The other thing to consider is total bandwidth at any given point during the day. If you need a specific solution like a server backup to the cloud, then a good route to go is to isolate that server IP from any software inspection or traffic filtering and schedule the backups during non-business hours. Where more speed really shines is large file upload or download. Usually, 100 Mb/s is enough to keep people working and anything above that is not noticed for normal tasks. Most user tasks at a business only really need a modest connection speed. The key question is "what is the problem that more speed will solve?" and then determine how a speed test will answer that question. Obviously it will because most ISPs have fantastic peering with netflix because that's the only thing 80% of the dumbed down world population does on the internet. Oh and don't listen to people saying " should give you good results". Latency, bandwidth and packet losses to Madrid. In London and operate in Edinburgh, then check latency, bandwidth and packet I would test speeds to servers hosted in key datacentres. Nearest IXP, they could have absolutely terrible speeds and lowest priority Peering arrangements with other networks. The internet is the interconnection of networks, and some ISPs have terrible Geographically nearest data centre/internet exchange point. The internet doesn't stop at a speed test server run by your own ISP in your A lot of ISPs host speed test servers in your nearestÄC in order to mask their terrible peering arrangements. My recommendation is to not test your speed to the nearest server
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