Trick for a reliable and ad-free ookla speedtest in Opera

[Luigi_R]

As everybody here I was complaining about the poor connection speed of our Sony Android TV with both Ethernet and Wifi. The network performance is bottlenecked by the hardware itself (I still have to digest the fact the in 2017 I have got 10/100 Ethernet port, Wifi module connected to the USB2.0 and 1575Mb of Ram sold for 2Gb). Already running a speed test on a web site like speedtest.net falsifies the results because java scripts and ads running in background overload the device. For this reason I switched to fast.com where I could download at full speed but I was questioning the reliability of the results since on speedtest.net I was always getting half of my bandwidth. Today I found a way to run speed test on speedtest.net without ads on our Android TVs. You just need to add run?r=f  at the end of speedtest.net address (http://beta.speedtest.net/run?r=f). I can now get similar results as for other devices connected to the same 5Ghz network, download and upload test at the maximum speed and ping of 11-12 instead of 100-200. To give you some numbers (test performed on the same server):

http://beta.speedtest.net/:

Ping 248 Download 30.18 Mbps Upload 3.80 Mbps

(http://beta.speedtest.net/run?r=f:

Ping 13  Download 59.32 Mbps Upload 3.90Mbps

Give it a try and let me know if it works for you too.

[Jecht_Sin]

Or.. you have two other options:

1. Use fast.com (from Netflix) instead. It's less complete but usually quite accurate.
2. Use Adguard DNS in the DNS settings.  - IP Addresses: 176.103.130.130 and 176.103.130.131

I have used Adguard DNS for a long time now, and it blocks even the YouTube ads. I never see one. Using it they still appear in the Apple TV 4K, though. I am not sure how it works.

[Luigi_R]

Thanks to fast.com I have actually found the trick for speedtest.net. In fact I was performing the test on fast.com and I always got results that never match to the one from Ookla. But from fast.com website at the end of the test you can compare the results agaist the one of speedtest.net and by clicking on the link provided on them I have noticed that the ads were not loaded gaining in speed. On speedtest.net I could also check the ping and the upload that is why I prefer that one. I have never tried Adguard DNS, I will give it a try although I do not use much the TV to surf on internet.