may i suggest nettfart.no by the norwegian government as an alternative ? at least the name is fun

Mordisquitos 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

It's not the net fart that kills your connection, it is the server smell.

amarcheschi 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

There is also the Italian one, AFAIK you can use this as an official tool to check whether your speed is at least the minimum speed that should be provided by contract.

I don't know whether it pings to italy even outside italy/eu

https://misurainternet.it/misura-speedtest/?speedtest=inizia

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teddyh 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

For Swedish users: <https://www.bredbandskollen.se/>

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joshuat 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

fast.com is my go-to in the rare case I need to check network speed these days

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taberiand 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

We used fast.com to speed test our new office internet connection and the next day got an irate email from corporate (who had argued we didn't need the new connection) about "watching Netflix all day". I imagine some C-level thought they had a real gotcha! moment until I showed them the site.

	▲	musicale 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		This is another advantage of fast.com.

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cseleborg 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I read a while ago that certain ISPs will optimize the traffic to Netflix's servers, and so when you run fast.com (which is my default, by the way), you get your Internet speed for watching Netflix, but not necessarily for other things.

	▲	Spooky23 4 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		That was very relevant in some scenarios. When Spectrum was fighting with Netflix, they would force Netflix traffic to a peer circuit that was under provisioned as a shakedown tactic. Fast.com would detect that, and you could bypass that nonsense by changing your DNS.
	▲	cseleborg 4 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Out of curiosity, I just compared my home wifi between fast.com and cloudflare's speed tedt and got similar results, completely and definitely disproving (n=1) my claim above.

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vinay427 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

While neat that a government operates this, I’m not sure it’s a viable alternative for most users given that the servers are AFAIK all in Norway. For example, the latency from my network was 150-200ms (compared to 6ms for the Speedtest.net server) and the speed test results appear less consistent than they may be in/near Norway.

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firefax 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

why is it named this? i'm guessing "fart" means something different in your language :-)

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pmdr 4 hours ago | parent [-]

"speed" in Swedish and Norwegian. Probably Danish as well.

	▲	firefax 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		ah, makes sense, thank you.

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BoingBoomTschak 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I recommend https://speed.cloudflare.com/ personally.