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Why are the uploads so low?
Tested a couple of VPS upload speeds & they all end up in the 3-6 Mbps range for upload using speedtest-cli.
Figured it's because I'm using crappy low end stuff. So spun up a 100usd pm azure server...certain I'll be blown away by it's savage performance. And....
Download: 1072.76 Mbit/s
Upload: 4.16 Mbit/s
What gives? Is this a flaw in the speedtest-cli or is it actually that slow?
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Perhaps the server you are testing with is low on internet bars.
lol. Yeah tried a couple that were near the VPS location...all varying levels of bleak
Have you tried with iperf?
Edit: also take a look at YABS (it uses iperf3).
ah....that is now giving results more in line with expectations.
6-8gbps down, 1gbps up for the Azure server
50mbps both ways for the small oracle VM (looks capped)
Guess that means I shouldn't be trusting speedtest. Also need to check out the lower end Azure boxes...see if they have similar performance.
It's a bug with speedtest-cli, happens on my servers too. Use iperf/iperf3 instead.
You shouldn't be trusting speedtest in the first place for server to server - it's basically meant for largely measuring dinky connections.
There are some reports about upload issues with speedtest-cli. Are you using the version from your distro?
Try cloning the lastest version from their repo (https://github.com/sivel/speedtest-cli) and see if the results have improved.
Yep. That resulted in gbps too. I guess the one in ubuntu repos is broken. Weird
Yes, has been for quite a while. In fact this is the 2nd or 3rd thread on this here at LET if you search.
Cheers!
My bad.
Because speedtest-cli is a useless piece of garbage. If you need to test real throughput, use iperf3
I do like using speedtest-cli but it is useless, just use iperf3 will never let you down.