[119487] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Testing Internet Speeds and Capacity
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeff Shultz)
Fri Nov 20 11:19:31 2009
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2009 07:56:41 -0800
From: Jeff Shultz <jeffshultz@wvi.com>
To: shake righa <ssrigha@gmail.com>, NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <73439e5a0911192311j13e370eboe3e44c1621a3ee17@mail.gmail.com>
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shake righa wrote:
> Hi,
>
> how does one truly test internet speeds provided by your provider.
>
> Speed test sits give different results that one provided by the provider.
>
> Regards,
> Shake
>
Nice ISP's will put speed test software on their backbone so you can
test the speed of your circuit to the backbone.
Remember that the speed your provider quotes you is probably the full
throughput of the circuit. Some circuits, such as DSL ones, will read up
to 15% slower due to ATM circuit overhead.
--
Jeff Shultz
