Speed Test Results

[james.cutler at consultant.com (Cutler James R)]

On Dec 23, 2011, at 8:07 AM, Paul Stewart wrote:

> In my opinion they are only "somewhat reliable" if they are on your network
> or very close to your network -we operate one of the speedtest.net sites and
> for our own eyeball traffic find it to be a "reasonable indicator" of what
> kind of speeds the customer is getting.
> 
> To put it a different way, if a customer is getting 20X1 Internet service
> and the speedtest shows 17 X 0.8 then case closed - if they are getting a
> speedtest result of 5 X 0.5 then our helpdesk will take a further look -
> this is really in rough terms...
> 
> Paul