How to fool speedtests while in a limiter?
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Hello,
Is there any way fool speedtests such as speakeasy and speedtest.net to show the full bandwidth of the connection, even though the user is in a limiter? Speedtests seem to draw data from the same CDNs as other websites, so I'm wondering how this could be done.
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I don't see how you could while limiting others except for putting in rules to limit speekease or other in a different, more unlimited queue or limiter.
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This seems a little devious to wonder about, but just the same..
The challenge would be that it's hard to distinguish speedtest traffic from other browsing traffic (traffic seems to be coming from Akamai).
I wonder if configuring a burst amount in a limiter would change the results.
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If the burst amount was long enough, I don't see why not. Most don't last but a couple of minutes.
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ttblum: just out of curiosity, why do you want to do that? I'm guessing that you want to limit users without them finding out by doing a speedtest and not getting the full bandwidth of the connection, but why?
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Shudnawz: I find that 3rd party software vendors will often run speedtests in an attempt to blame their software issues on the network. Also, I find that corporate big-wigs tend to run speedtests and open tickets and generally waste time.
I figured it out: Most speedtests seem to prefer to run over TCP port 8443, so if I configure outbound traffic over TCP port 8443 to be unlimited then this will fool most speedtests into showing your full bandwidth.
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The guy you're replying to hasn't logged in in 2.5 years, but thanks for the info regardless.
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sounds bit like isp trying to prevent users from detecting being throttled to me
