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LibreSpeed - Speed Test (librespeed.org)

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Free and Open Source Speed Test. No Flash, No Java, No Websocket, No Bullshit.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 3 months ago (19 children)

Unfortunately doesn't quite reach the speeds speedtest.net can hit, but still cool to have a tool like this

[–] [email protected] 49 points 3 months ago (4 children)

ISPs give special preference to speedtest.net, so that their metrics will look better. Which means it rarely reflects actual reality. Theres a good chance this test is closer to the actual speeds you're getting everywhere but on speedtest.net.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (3 children)

I'm the author of the project. The servers are simply overloaded af unfortunately. It's a fairly popular project and we don't have enough servers to support this many concurrent users.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Thank you for the project. Maybe you can have an indicator saying

Server load level = 4/5 Measured speed might not be indicative of true speed
Server load level = 2/5 Measured speed is close to true speed

This could set an expectation for the users of the side

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago

Good idea, I'll add it to the to-do list for the next major release.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

Wow. Thank you!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Hello there, I didn't expect you to popup. (Nice project BTW)

Would it be possible to get more companies to sponsor it? It seems like it is free advertising especially for ISPs (as long as they don't favor IPs)

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

Occasionally some cloud providers or ISPs chime in and offer their servers to the public. If you have an LS server, you can submit it here: https://librespeed.org/submit

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Forgot to mention earlier, Steam is an example of a real world situation where I do actually hit around 1.5 Gb/s down

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Speedtest.net, Steam, well populated torrents, and the Star Citizen patcher are the only things I've experienced my full downstream of 1.5Gbps with.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

You should run i2p and a Tor relay

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

Certainly true in regards to real life use, but it's a good way to check that there isn't some issue on my end that's limiting the speed I am paying for

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Depending on the country, if they don't give special preference to speedtest.net, they might just block it.

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