Here's why I don't Use Speedtest.net anymore... By Tom Spark Reviews

So throughout my years of testing VPN, I've primarily used speediest. net in my VPN reviews. One reason is that, since I kind of started it in the beginning, it was kind of a way to keep a consistent kind of metro speed. In my reviews, I've never really liked. The website, though, and especially in the last couple of years, there's been some problems with it, namely that speediest. net is associated with j2 global j2 global itself also owns Spanish, which is another VPN, and I do think there could be some conflict of interest there with that testing.

VPN providers on a website owned by a VPN provider, perhaps if they detected, which VPN you're using they could lower the speeds or something like that. There also are just overall some problematic things with speed test and VPN a lot of times. Certain VPNs can detect you using a speed test or something like that. They will automatically make the speeds look better. It's something like bandwidth.

Compression is a term that I've seen tossed around that could influence speed tests. So I've always made sure to include the torrent test, because I think in a lot of ways that is more accurate um there has been pretty consistent, um indication of fast torrent, VPNs, getting good torrent results, do get good results with speed testers as well um, but nowadays, I do kind of not want to use speediest. Anymore for sure and future reviews, and I'm going to be talking about that. Why? For more reasons in this video, so one reason I don't want to use speediest. net anymore.

Something I already touched on briefly is that they're owned by a lot of other companies, and I'm not a huge fan of j2 global as an overall company itself, I found some documents about the company um talking about how they kind of have a weird history of purchasing companies, some weird financial history and stuff like that buying companies that don't necessarily do well but still buying the companies all the same, which is a little weird I'll. Put that down description. If you want to check that document out, if you want to find more information about why g2 global could be kind of sketchy, perhaps, but I'll, let you read, the document come to your own conclusions, but I do really feel like I am concerned about the privacy policy for speediest. net, because one reason we're using the website is to test VPN speeds. And if you take a look at the privacy policy, you can see that it is horrible.

They may process your personal details, your name, demographic data, contact details, records of your consent, purchase details, details of your employer, information about your content or advertising demographic information, all sorts of things pretty much. Nothing is of the limit. Um they're, pretty much going to collect your non-precise information about the approximate physical call, location, information about use of the services such as usage and data and statistical information, browsing history anyways guys they pretty much collect anything. You don't want them to collect, including log files which may include IP addresses, browser type, ISP, referring exit pages operating system date, time stamps and or click stream data, including any clicks on customized links. So they pretty much collect everything, and this is one of the reasons why I kind of want to stop using it now um, but there are kinds of problematic elements of this and that one reason I have USB test.

net is you can get pretty accurate results on the website and another website that is, I would say, more reliable in terms of having better privacy would probably speed. Up. Me. Now I've used this in a couple videos in the past, but my problem with this website is that for some reason it never really indicates the same speeds that other websites do I've seen that some people say speed up dot me is more accurate and these are more realistically your real speeds, but I'm not really to sure about that. There are other websites like fast.

com, which I probably will end up using in the future. So fast. com is owned by Netflix, so you could kind of give or take the privacy there as well um. I might, you know, trust Netflix more as a company, though I think than j2 global. Like I said, I think, speed of me uh me is a little more trustworthy than perhaps most of the other ones, but the results seemed kind of weird um.

I do like fast. com in terms of the presentation and the information it gives me. The speed test seemed very accurate um. They even wrote a blog about kind of the design and architecture of the website and why it works. So well, so that's really cool to see, but we could see perfect results on this website, giving me pretty much exactly the speeds that I think I'm getting and when I'm testing VPNs.

It also gives me very accurate results as well, so I'll probably be using fast. com in the future. Another good website for testing stuff, I think in terms of having more privacy and transparency, perhaps is something called DSL reports. The cool thing about this website is that I, like its interface, even though it's kind of ghetto in some way. The cool thing about this website is that it kind of saves your previous results, I guess probably through cookies, or something like that, and you could get some kind of indication on.

You know your real speeds versus your VPN speeds. However, my problem with this website, like speedup. me, is that, for some reason my speeds always seem a little different from other websites. If you take something like fast. com, this is my speeds with wire guard around 660 megabits per second, and you could see, my upload is probably going to be around the same area, but if you look at something like this website, this is my speeds, so the upload is pretty accurate.

I think, but download still seems to be a little low um for this one, not really sure why compared to something like this uh, this seems to be a little more accurate for me, especially since I'm getting a gigabyte. The only thing the problem with that website is that it's kind of incompatible with certain browsers or even operating systems. This guy on my server who uses Linux, couldn't get it to work. So, while I do like the history of results and the general look and perhaps idea of the website being a little more trustworthy um, it can be hard to get results, sometimes so guys. What is kind of like the final thoughts and ending points of this video? Well, I probably won't be using speediest.

net anymore in future videos, because I don't really cut trust the parent company and I do think there is a conflict of interest with Spanish being a VPN and if I'm testing VPNs with a service owned by the same company, it's a little sketchy there. I do think the privacy policy of the website itself is very horrible, collecting all sorts of information. It hasn't always been the most accurate results. It has done a decent job, but I do think that fast. com, perhaps could be more private, have a more trustworthy company and give just as good or even better results in the speediest.

net. Not only that, but we could see other options like speed of me being good as well for certain users, depending on where you are around the world. It doesn't really seem that to work that well for me, but does prevent probably more privacy and collect less stuff from you than the other options and which goes. Those are my final thoughts on this and just kind of transparent video and why you might not see me using speediest. net anymore in future videos or just in speed test in general.

Let me know what you guys think of speediest. net what your current opinion of the best speed test websites are, if you've made it this far in the video. That's how I'll know, and I'll see you guys in the next one very soon.

Source : Tom Spark Reviews