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Self-hosted Speed Test for HTML5 and more. Easy setup, examples, configurable, mobile friendly. Supports PHP, Node, Multiple servers, and more
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Default to reporting measured rates and give the estimates of the gross rates as additional number #209

Closed moeller0 closed 5 years ago

moeller0 commented 5 years ago

Description

Change the default value for overheadCompensationFactor from 1.06 to 1.0, as without knowing the actual encapsulation used by a given client-server pair this is at best an estimate wich will not be correct for everybody. But even if not correct for everybody it still will be useful for quite a number of folks so why not report both like:

measured net-rate: XXX Mbps estimated gros-rate: YYY Mbps

That will combine precision with utility ;)

Why it should be implemented

Everybody would benefit from this, as it will both make the test rsults directly comparable with traditional on-line speedtests like ookla's and it will let the user know what was actually measured and what was estimated.

adolfintel commented 5 years ago

It's an idea, I'll keep this in mind for the next version ;)