Tuesday, July 18, 2017

Is your ISP Rogers Canada- Unfortunately if you use Speedtest.net it is probably lying to you

Does Rogers ISP Canada cache the download test to increase SpeedTest.net test results 


I have been using Pihole as a DNS server on my network for about 3 months now and love it so much that I have 2 instances running on 2 separate computers in VMware workstation,

Recently a user over at Reddit came up with an interesting project ( also Here and Here ) that uses the Pihole Web gui to perform a speed test on a regular basis.

I let the test run for about 2 days and it seems that it makes a few requests that are local to me and owned by my ISP.



Does this prove that Speedtest.net is flat out lying to you about your results, Well not really but I would be very leary about any result you get.