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Why are the uploads so low?

Tested a couple of VPS upload speeds & they all end up in the 3-6 Mbps range for upload using speedtest-cli.

Figured it's because I'm using crappy low end stuff. So spun up a 100usd pm azure server...certain I'll be blown away by it's savage performance. And....

Download: 1072.76 Mbit/s

Upload: 4.16 Mbit/s

What gives? Is this a flaw in the speedtest-cli or is it actually that slow?

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Comments

  • Perhaps the server you are testing with is low on internet bars.

  • @Janevski said:
    Perhaps the server you are testing with is low on internet bars.

    lol. Yeah tried a couple that were near the VPS location...all varying levels of bleak

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  • ITLabsITLabs Member
    edited October 2019

    Have you tried with iperf?

    Edit: also take a look at YABS (it uses iperf3).

  • @ITLabs said:
    Have you tried with iperf?

    Edit: also take a look at YABS (it uses iperf3).

    ah....that is now giving results more in line with expectations.

    6-8gbps down, 1gbps up for the Azure server

    50mbps both ways for the small oracle VM (looks capped)

    Guess that means I shouldn't be trusting speedtest. Also need to check out the lower end Azure boxes...see if they have similar performance.

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  • sinsin Member
    edited October 2019

    @havocx said:
    Tested a couple of VPS upload speeds & they all end up in the 3-6 Mbps range for upload using speedtest-cli.

    Figured it's because I'm using crappy low end stuff. So spun up a 100usd pm azure server...certain I'll be blown away by it's savage performance. And....

    Download: 1072.76 Mbit/s

    Upload: 4.16 Mbit/s

    What gives? Is this a flaw in the speedtest-cli or is it actually that slow?

    It's a bug with speedtest-cli, happens on my servers too. Use iperf/iperf3 instead.

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  • hzrhzr Member
    edited October 2019

    havocx said: I shouldn't be trusting speedtest

    You shouldn't be trusting speedtest in the first place for server to server - it's basically meant for largely measuring dinky connections.

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  • ITLabsITLabs Member
    edited October 2019

    @havocx said:

    @ITLabs said:
    Have you tried with iperf?

    Edit: also take a look at YABS (it uses iperf3).

    ah....that is now giving results more in line with expectations.

    6-8gbps down, 1gbps up for the Azure server

    50mbps both ways for the small oracle VM (looks capped)

    Guess that means I shouldn't be trusting speedtest. Also need to check out the lower end Azure boxes...see if they have similar performance.

    There are some reports about upload issues with speedtest-cli. Are you using the version from your distro?

    Try cloning the lastest version from their repo (https://github.com/sivel/speedtest-cli) and see if the results have improved.

  • @ITLabs said:
    There are some reports about upload issues with speedtest-cli. Are you using the version from your distro?

    Try cloning the lastest version from their repo (https://github.com/sivel/speedtest-cli) and see if the results have improved.

    Yep. That resulted in gbps too. I guess the one in ubuntu repos is broken. Weird

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  • havocx said: Yep. That resulted in gbps too. I guess the one in ubuntu repos is broken. Weird

    Yes, has been for quite a while. In fact this is the 2nd or 3rd thread on this here at LET if you search.

    Cheers!

  • @TheLinuxBug said:
    Yes, has been for quite a while. In fact this is the 2nd or 3rd thread on this here at LET if you search.

    Cheers!

    My bad. :/

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  • FHRFHR Member, Host Rep
    edited October 2019

    Because speedtest-cli is a useless piece of garbage. If you need to test real throughput, use iperf3

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  • JordJord Moderator, Host Rep

    I do like using speedtest-cli but it is useless, just use iperf3 will never let you down.

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