[103606] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Speedtest site accuracy [was: Bandwidth issues in the Sprint
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeff Shultz)
Tue Apr 8 17:57:52 2008
Date: Tue, 08 Apr 2008 14:49:01 -0700
From: Jeff Shultz <jeffshultz@wvi.com>
To: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <200804082127.m38LRG8G007265@parsley.amaranth.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
Daniel Senie wrote:
> If you go to Speakeasy.net and run their test, the vendor of theirs has
> a logo showing (and clickable). This outfit produces nice-looking speed
> test software.
>
> That said, it just reported my Comcast Business account as getting
> 25Mbps down, and 1.4Mbps up, which is pretty unlikely. Clearing the
> browser cache alters the displayed speed considerably, so this is a good
> indication of the usefulness (or lack thereof) of some of this software.
Speakeasy must be good - you're the second person in 5 minutes to
recommend them.
What I'm looking for is software that we can install locally on our
backbone so we can offer our customers an accurate and up-to-date
performance measure of their own DSL circuit - which is anywhere from
256/256kb to 1024/6.144Mbs at the moment.
We're going fiber-to-the-house over the next 5 years so I expect those
numbers will continue to rise to the point that problems outside of our
network will definitely be more of a bottleneck than problems inside our
network - so I'm looking for a solution that will help us illustrate
that point to our customers.
--
Jeff Shultz
