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Speedtest Showing Wrong Speeds

Open branttaylor opened this issue 3 years ago • 4 comments

I'm not really sure how this is the case, but within the pod I am seeing download speeds that are roughly double what I'm actually getting. For example, inside the pod I'm getting this:

bash-5.0# speedtest

   Speedtest by Ookla

     Server: Comcast - Nashville, TN (id = 1764)
        ISP: Comcast Business
    Latency:    13.17 ms   (2.89 ms jitter)
   Download:   934.82 Mbps (data used: 1.4 GB)
     Upload:    33.24 Mbps (data used: 42.2 MB)
Packet Loss: Not available.
 Result URL: https://www.speedtest.net/result/c/f0b5583c-87ce-4b35-96ff-0c3d01874584

But outside of the pod, I run speedtest-cli on the node itself and I get this:

administrator@server:~$ speedtest
Retrieving speedtest.net configuration...
Testing from Comcast Business (redacted)...
Retrieving speedtest.net server list...
Selecting best server based on ping...
Hosted by Comcast (Nashville, TN) [26.01 km]: 16.491 ms
Testing download speed................................................................................
Download: 426.06 Mbit/s
Testing upload speed......................................................................................................
Upload: 41.40 Mbit/s

I'm located in Middle Tennessee, as you can tell. Any thoughts on why this is the case? I've even tried running speedtest inside the pod using different speedtest servers and they're all way higher than I'm actually getting.

branttaylor avatar Sep 10 '20 00:09 branttaylor