[squid-users] Slow speedtest results

[Evan Pierce]

Hi all

Any idea why when using www.speedtest.net on my squid proxy ( squid 
3.5.27 on Centos 6.9) gives consistently false/bad speeds while doing a 
speed test. The actual speed when downloading a file from a actual web 
server like say the microsoft website is consistently good (30Mb/s fiber 
- download speed 3.4MB/s) but a speed test done at the same time sits at 
around 3 to 4Mb/s. I have tried turning caching off and various other 
"tuning" settings on squid but nothing has fundamentally altered the 
speed. Running command line speedtest gives a correct speedtest from the 
squid host. Test machine was machine running firefox and chrome with the 
proxy statically configured and wasn't under any load. A similarly 
configured squid on smaller hardware and the same service provider runs 
consistently gives an accurate speedtest (same centos and squid 
versions). Any one have any ideas?

thanks

Evan