[119036] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Speed Testing and Throughput testing
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Simon Horman)
Wed Nov 4 23:55:08 2009
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 2009 15:54:14 +1100
From: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
To: Jason Biel <jason@biel-tech.com>
In-Reply-To: <b4fbab630911030449r712837bdxeca26a239042a8c7@mail.gmail.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Tue, Nov 03, 2009 at 06:49:05AM -0600, Jason Biel wrote:
> Linux always worked best for us as well, was easy running a livecd with
> laptops. We found that two windows XP machines, same identical hardware and
> OS load yielded different registry settings (or lack thereof) for TCP Window
> setting.
I would have thought that (netperf's) UDP tests were more appropriate
than TCP for testing link speed. Am I missing the point?
