[10307] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Keynote/Boardwatch Internet Backbone Index A better test!!!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jack Rickard)
Fri Jun 27 20:57:55 1997
From: "Jack Rickard" <jack.rickard@boardwatch.com>
To: "Michael Dillon" <michael@priori.net>, <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Fri, 27 Jun 1997 16:22:05 -0600
See the July Directory. We show about 30 pages of graphs, including one
with an average for each period (nominally 4 hours I think) across the
calendar month.
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> From: Michael Dillon <michael@priori.net>
> To: nanog@merit.edu; Gene Shklar <GeneShklar@keynote.com>
> Subject: RE: Keynote/Boardwatch Internet Backbone Index A better test!!!
> Date: Friday, June 27, 1997 2:39 PM
>
> >Thanks for the suggestions. We're considering doing a follow-up and
> >perhaps making
> >this a regular feature every 2 or 4 months thereafter. We've received a
> >few suggestions
> >for methodology changes/enhancements,
>
> I just thought of another solution to the problem of too many variables.
> The numbers that you came up with this time are essentially meaningless
> because there are so many variables involved that shift from time to
time,
> and by taking one month of measurements and boiling it down to a single
> number, you simply don't learn anything useful. However, if you were to
do
> a similar test and come up with a single number for each day and then
plot
> that number for one month, then it would show some useful info. If a
> provider has one bad day, it doesn't blow their average but it is still
> clearly visible. And if a provider has 10 bad days, then that is also
> visible and is arguably more useful than a single number which might be
> seen as implying a slower network. Personally, I would rate an erratic
> network as far worse than a slower one.
>
>
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