[103627] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Speedtest site accuracy [was: Bandwidth issues in the Sprint network]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brian Raaen)
Wed Apr 9 08:10:58 2008
From: Brian Raaen <braaen@zcorum.com>
To: rcheung@rochester.rr.com
Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2008 08:09:48 -0400
Cc: frnkblk@iname.com, NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>,
"'Jeff Shultz'" <jeffshultz@wvi.com>
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I just ran a few test off that page. on the Download I get anywhere from=20
25-30Mbps and on the upload I seem to be getting 4-6Mbps one time when I=20
turned off the AV I spiked to 10Mbps, but was not able to duplicate that ra=
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after that. This site seems to be aimed at testing the sprint wireless=20
cards, and my not test higher speed circuits as well... but I'll see what t=
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Sprint engineers have to say. Thanks for the link.
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Brian Raaen
Network Engineer
braaen@zcorum.com
On Tuesday 08 April 2008, rcheung@rochester.rr.com wrote:
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> Incidentally, Sprint's speedtest site is here:=20
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> http://www.sprint.com/speedtest
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> The page is hosted off Speakeasy?, but the file is stored on Sprint serve=
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per their respective geographic region.
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> I'd be interested to see the speedtest results of your OC3.
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> Rick
> ---- Frank Bulk - iNAME <frnkblk@iname.com> wrote:=20
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> > Vonage appears to be using Visualware's product: http://www.myspeed.com/
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> > Frank
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-nanog@merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu] On Behalf Of=
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Jeff
> > Shultz
> > Sent: Tuesday, April 08, 2008 4:49 PM
> > To: NANOG list
> > Subject: Re: Speedtest site accuracy [was: Bandwidth issues in the Spri=
nt
> > network]
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> > Daniel Senie wrote:
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> > > If you go to Speakeasy.net and run their test, the vendor of theirs h=
as
> > > a logo showing (and clickable). This outfit produces nice-looking spe=
ed
> > > 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 g=
ood
> > > indication of the usefulness (or lack thereof) of some of this softwa=
re.
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> > Speakeasy must be good - you're the second person in 5 minutes to
> > recommend them.
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> > 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.
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> > 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.
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> > --
> > Jeff Shultz
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