[Cialug] speedtest-cli lies!!!
L. V. Lammert
lvl at omnitec.net
Thu Aug 20 23:18:21 UTC 2020
On Thu, 20 Aug 2020, Jared Brees wrote:
> I've used SpeedTest GUI with symmetrical connections a lot
> (https://www.speedtest.net/result/8270594082.png); never had an issue.
>
Was not talking about the GUI, .. we don't have GUIs on machines behind
that link.
> At the moment I'm not on a symmetrical connection, but I'm getting over
> 400Mbps upload through both CLI and GUI Speedtest without issue.
>
400 / ??
SpeedTest GUI worked fine, .. but it requires a GUI - hard to do if there
isn't one.
speedtest-cli was the one having a problem with a symmetrical connection -
it showed up/dn as both at the lowest rate, while the GUI did evaluate
correctly.
Lee
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