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Re: Keynote/Boardwatch Internet Backbone Index A better test!!!

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ben Black)
Fri Jun 27 16:44:34 1997

Date: Fri, 27 Jun 1997 16:28:22 -0400 (EDT)
From: Ben Black <black@zen.cypher.net>
To: "Craig A. Huegen" <c-huegen@quadrunner.com>
cc: Jack Rickard <jack.rickard@boardwatch.com>,
        Peter Cole <Peter.Cole@telescan.com>, nanog@merit.edu,
        marketing@keynote.com
In-Reply-To: <Pine.QUAD.3.96.970627130626.23661A-100000@quad.quadrunner.com>

for an exmple of somewhat more complete and better designed benchmarks of 
this type:

http://www.inversenet.com/about/backgrounder.html#2

note that they understand the numerous factors that contribute to overall 
performance.  only a marketing droid could think downloading 50k worth of 
web pages is somehow an indicator of overall performance.


b3n


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