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Speedtest or Yabs Speed Tests
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iperf. So YABS.
of course yabs
YABS is the gold standard of all round benchmarking.
I would use both : yabs & speedtest-cliI'm biased, but speedtest cli
YABS/Iperf.
I have noticed providers who got DDoS protection that speedtest with speedtest.net such as their cli-script have issues with that. YABS and iperf is no problem. Not sure why tho
Yabs
@jsg is having a heart attack right now reading this
Nope, I'm smirking.
Depends on what one is interested in, as well as the context like enduser on VPS vs. provider looking at pipes. iperf3 (which is used in yabs) may serve well for a provider. speedtest IMO just is a mix of marketing BS and crap.
As an enduser one usually isn't interested in or ticking in terms of 'pipe' but rather wants to know what a mere mortal enduser can get in terms of actual usage (e.g and in particular http) and some basic latency info (ping) and that's what I wrote my benchmark program for (plus a few other criteria like e.g. being a good neighbour).
EDIT: btw, what I'm way more interested in, @xHosts, when does your 3 yr promo offer come ? * friendly smile
iPerf, so yabs.
And, I'm making iperf speedtest script.
https://github.com/GrapeApple0/ipench
Some hosts have poor speeds from the servers that YABS uses, either due to bad peering to them specifically or those servers being overly congested from everyone in the world running YABS. If I see subpar speeds with YABS then I will ask for or run a network-speed.xyz test (which uses speedtest-cli), which is more representative of a random sample of hosts my server may communicate with.
I may be doing some long promos soon, working on getting some bulk hardware deals in place with my account manager which has proven more difficult in recent months as the main one I had who had worked for the company 20+ years left at the turn of the year and since then when discussing deals it could be any one of a possible 5 who reply, some are more open to long term deals and agreements on prices while others are more locked on standard pricing.
I do have a some high bandwidth deals coming in the next few days, using Ryzen 7 CPU's.
Yes, I have had customers in the past complain yabs displays X but included port states Y when using either speedtest or network-speed all is well. I have even shown a wget file from another provider to show all speeds are as expected but because Yabs displays x and not what they demand they open payment disputes or create a drama.
I was hoping to get a clear picture like I have so far with replies on what is more reliable because some if Yabs shows something they believe that is 100% fact