We are not about to stop doing speed tests, but we do need to realize that taking too simple a view, just the average, may be masking a serious problem. With each click, we unfortunately skew the statistics, driving the average up.Ĭybera’s test on Ookla - blazingly fast compared to most Canadian consumers. Over the last few months, we have run several tests on Ookla to see how the numbers varied. By doing a single speed test on Cybera’s ultra high speed connection, we have masked the pain of ordinary users experiencing really slow network services. If two bad connections plus Cybera were calculated on the site, we would then have an average of: 2 X 1.5=3ĭivided by the number of samples 930/3 = 310 Mbps If another ‘average’ Canadian ran the test on a pokey 1.5 Mbps connection, the average would be around 464 Mbps. We had a download speed of about 927 Mbps at the time of the test. Let’s use our download speed as an example. When Cybera ran the speedtest, we added more data points to Ookla. Therefore, the 30 Mbps is an average of the speeds Canadians reported through this website. People visit this site to test the speed of their internet connection. Ookla is essentially a broadband research company that “crowdsources” download and upload speeds through its website.

The website ranks Canada as 33rd in the world index of internet speeds. Ookla’s speed test displaying the “average” broadband speed.

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