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When I got mine a year or so ago I was frequently getting speed tests like 17mbps down/5up, which was still much better than I had before. But just now I got 135/25, and while that's unusually fast, I'm consistently seeing >100mbps download rates. But the download latency this time was 156ms, 7x their 20ms target. That's the usual and I haven't seen many lower measurements.

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one of my sadnesses is so few tests, except those designed by the bufferbloat project, test up + down + latency at the same time.

I like this new one: https://github.com/Zoxc/crusader/releases/tag/v0.0.10-testin.... My favorite remains the rrul test out of the flent.org suite.

Most web speed tests have nearly no predictive power for testing videoconferencing quality, although I am delighted speed test.net cloudflare and others have added a "responsiveness" metric that too few see... https://blog.cerowrt.org/post/speedtests/

Have you made sure the app says no obstructions?

Yep, and the dish is on a high point, the ridge of a house on the crest of a mesa with low horizons all around, that attracts an unfortunate number of lightning strikes.

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