[nfbcs] Videos and buffering.

[Steve Jacobson]

Gabe,

I am going to do my best to avoid the personal attack in your note below and try to use this list to present real information.  I don't see a description of how 
the speed tests are done as you imply in your note.  As I mentioned in another note, I am getting extremely low measurements that are not valid for me.  
Much of the text that I have found on this site refers to 3G and 4G sites, and I do not see anything that indicates whether there is a diverse set of 
destinations for this test.  While the technical details may not be important to the average consumer, I am speculating that there is a bad path between my 
connection and the other end that is causing me to get a consistently low rate.  If you happen to be on a good path, your results may be very accurate.  At 
least some other speed test sites try to minimize the distance between the two ends of the test to try to measure the speed of your connection rather than 
having the speed limited by a poor path.  My reaction to this site is that its results are not reliable unless you already know that you have a good path to it, 
which most of us would not know without comparing.  If Alan got results similar to mine, it would cause him to draw a possibly incorrect conclusion about his 
connection speed.  

Do you have information that might explain what I am seeing?  I'd be interested to understand this site better, though, and if you are saying there is 
information I am missing I'd be glad to take a look.  The interface is very nice and easy to use, so it would be nice to be able to recommend this site.

Best regards,

Steve Jacobson

On Wed, 22 Dec 2010 05:52:31 -0600, Gabe Vega \(netbook\) wrote:

>Dave, knowing who you are and your background I expected more from you.

>This simply tests the bandwidth throughput speed of the connection. The rate
>it shows is the download speed and if you read the website information it
>would have told you that.

>This was not suppose to be a all incompassing technical expert speed test.
>And I never claimed it to be. It simply sends a 1mb file through and see how
>long it takes to download a couple of times.

>Most consumers just want to know how fast they can download and it tells
>them exactly that.

>Sorry it was too, simple for you. You being an expert and all.
> 
>Gabe Vega
>The Tech of all Techs!
>(623) 565-9357
>-----Original Message-----
>From: nfbcs-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nfbcs-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf
>Of David Andrews
>Sent: Wednesday, December 22, 2010 5:43 AM
>To: NFB in Computer Science Mailing List
>Subject: Re: [nfbcs] Videos and buffering.

>Yes, it is easy to use, and accessible -- but I am not sure what it is
>actualy telling you because it is so simplified.  Is that upload speed,
>download speed, and it talks about measuring WIFI/3G/4G.  It seems to me
>that all it can really measure is the slowest link in your system, internet
>link, wifi, or other type of connection.

>Dave

>At 10:12 PM 12/21/2010, you wrote:
>>Yes, good site. Out of 10 measurements my average was 392 kbps.
>>
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: nfbcs-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nfbcs-bounces at nfbnet.org] On 
>>Behalf Of Gabe Vega (netbook)
>>Sent: Tuesday, December 21, 2010 9:05 PM
>>To: 'NFB in Computer Science Mailing List'
>>Subject: Re: [nfbcs] Videos and buffering.
>>
>>You can do this by going to
>>http://www.4g-speed.info
>>It is an accessible text based speed test, I can run this on my mac, 
>>windows xp, and my iphone. No flash, no java.
>>
>>Hope this helps.
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: nfbcs-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nfbcs-bounces at nfbnet.org] On 
>>Behalf Of Larry Wayland
>>Sent: Tuesday, December 21, 2010 8:58 PM
>>To: 'NFB in Computer Science Mailing List'
>>Subject: Re: [nfbcs] Videos and buffering.
>>
>>You may want to check your internet speed to make sure it is working 
>>the way it should.
>>
>>
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: nfbcs-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nfbcs-bounces at nfbnet.org] On 
>>Behalf Of Alan Wheeler
>>Sent: Tuesday, December 21, 2010 10:48 AM
>>To: nfbcs at nfbnet.org
>>Subject: [nfbcs] Videos and buffering.
>>
>>Hello, I hope you can help. I am running Windows Vista (64 bit) and JAWS
>11.
>>Lately, within the past month, I can't seem to watch video content on 
>>web pages, be it from You Tube or anywhere, without it buffering (breaking
>up).
>>I tried, not sure how successfully, to install the new Adobe flash 
>>player and am still having problems. Any suggestions?
>>
>>Alan
>>
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>>
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>cymbals.
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>>
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