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Speed test results not very realistic #5

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@adocampo

Running skill gave a wrong speed test compared to the web page. I have a 500/500 internet connection. Skill always returns below that. If I do the test on the web interface I get these results
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while doing the test through the skill the results are quite lower
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My bet is speedtest isn't grabbing the proper server to do the tests. On the command line utility I could see when I run speedtest without selecting the server, it grabs one based on "ping" (my bet it is grabbing one of the nearer servers, and then making a ping to see the timeout, and not doing a ping to all the servers).
On the following capture I'm showing two random tests using cli
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against this location
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and this other
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against this other location
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while if I select my server (I choosed my own's ISP server located on my city)
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I know this is a limitation of the speedtest tool, but perhaps would be great to let specify the server to get the most accurate speed test, wouldn't it?

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