[Cialug] speedtest-cli lies!!!

[Jared Brees]

800 down / 400 up - same results with both CLI and GUI

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From: Cialug <cialug-bounces at cialug.org> on behalf of L. V. Lammert <lvl at omnitec.net>
Sent: Thursday, August 20, 2020 18:18
To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group <cialug at cialug.org>
Subject: Re: [Cialug] speedtest-cli lies!!!

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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