New South African Internet speed test website launched

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Very nice, howcome no server for Durban NapAfrica.
Would be nice, to see lower ping, based on DBN server???
 
Mariuspay said:
It doesnt open for me. wheely thingy turning turning 10 min
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Are you behind a firewall that blocks port 8443 perhaps?
Then that will happen...
I see it uses port 80 for the site (http) and then port 8443 for that wheely thingy and the actual download and upload
 
dotcat said:
no https ?
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It is somewhat of a challenge to implement HTTPS as the additional overhead causes accuracy issues with the current testing engine. The devs are, however, working on a solution.
 
ArtyLoop said:
Why do we need this when speedtest.net provides the benchmark? Or is this so that the ISPs can say "But ja on speedtest.co.za your line is performing optimally" when in reality they're throttling/shaping the bejayzus out of you
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Quite the inverse.

Speedtest.net encourages on-net servers, which means you do not perform tests to the Internet. When you, for example, test your speed on Vodacom and MTN, they have on-net speed test servers on their own network. You therefore never leave their network for this speed test.

MyBroadband’s speed test servers are hosted at Internet breakout points (NAPAfrica) in Johannesburg and Cape Town (Durban to follow soon). This means you test your speed to the Internet instead of on-net. This is why the test results are often a little worse than Speedtest.net.

I hope this explains the difference.
 
ArtyLoop said:
Why do we need this when speedtest.net provides the benchmark?
Or is this so that the ISPs can say "But ja on speedtest.co.za your line is performing optimally" when in reality they're throttling/shaping the bejayzus out of you
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They (most ISPs) already do so for all speedtest.net servers (not by IP or hostname, but by protocol recognition/DPI).

Only the ISPs who can't afford decent DPI (or don't know how to) don't do it, if they could afford/do it they would.

Note that for many use cases it does make sense to do this, as it makes it easier to rule out factors the ISP can't control (poor WiFi signal, issues in the last mile etc.), although it would be better to have functionality like this only for specific speedtest servers as part of a customer self-diagnostics tool/portal/page (we wanted to do this at the ISP I used to work at, but many other product features which weren't launched were prioritised over doing this :-().
 
rpm said:
Quite the inverse.

Speedtest.net encourages on-net servers, which means you do not perform tests to the Internet. When you, for example, test your speed on Vodacom and MTN, they have on-net speed test servers on their own network. You therefore never leave their network for this speed test.

MyBroadband’s speed test servers are hosted at Internet breakout points (NAPAfrica) in Johannesburg and Cape Town (Durban to follow soon). This means you test your speed to the Internet instead of on-net. This is why the test results are often a little worse than Speedtest.net.

I hope this explains the difference.
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Makes sense, comparing apples with apples.
 
Not entirely agreed. Speedtest. Net you can choose any international server you want to test to.
 
quovadis said:
I may be wrong but speedtest.co.za's appears to be a licensed implementation of OOKLA's speed test who also own speedtest.net.
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This is not correct. It uses a different testing engine completely which has been customized to test to only the NAPAfrica Internet breakout points.
 
So pointless and a waste of time, money and energy.

Seems some people have nothing but time to waste on garbage like this site when far superior sites already exist.
 
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