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Ben Tossell@bentossell · Community Lead, Product Hunt
I assume a lot of you remember FAST.com by Netflix that was launched around 3 months ago.... I do because my speed was this bad: Now while I'm in Mallorca I get this :) Anyway, now they have an Android and iPhone app!! Netflix also published a blog post yesterday: Building fast.com Oh and The Next Web wrote about it too: Netflix’s super simple sp… See more
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Fraser Smith@frassmith · Software Developer, Shanghai, China
@bentossell @nattgarun I don't use it because it seems that it's a speed test between the user and Netflix servers (or CDN). So, as I'm in China and Netflix has no official presence here, I get really poor results on fast.com. Example: I just tried, with VPN off and fast.com gave me something around 1Mbps. Speedtest under the same circumstances showed my ba… See more
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Muhammad Nasrullah@nash · VP Engg Convo, Founder Frequel & Pring
@frassmith @bentossell @nattgarun However, it's an accurate predictor of actual behaviour given that they use their actual CDN and content to test. This makes it look like regular traffic and the ISPs can't game the system by detecting traffic to speedtest.net and giving you a temporary speed boost. Details here: http://techblog.netflix.com/2016...
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Ulina@missu · Web Developer
@frassmith Hi, I'm pretty sure I read that this is one of the reasons why Netflix created the site. ISPs where throttling Netflix traffic. The other problem was that ISPs where boosting performance from the more common speed checking sites. So to prove that both issues were true, they create a speed checker that uses their own servers. You have a unique situ… See more
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