[119546] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Testing Internet Speeds and Capacity
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Marshall Eubanks)
Mon Nov 23 17:41:13 2009
From: Marshall Eubanks <tme@americafree.tv>
To: shake righa <ssrigha@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <73439e5a0911192311j13e370eboe3e44c1621a3ee17@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2009 17:40:14 -0500
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Nov 20, 2009, at 2:11 AM, shake righa wrote:
> Hi,
>
> how does one truly test internet speeds provided by your provider.
>
I am going to go back to your original question and ask, for what
purpose ?
> Speed test sits give different results that one provided by the
> provider.
>
Could well be. Speed tests for one purpose (say, TCP web) may be
largely irrelevant for other purposes (say, UDP video).
If it really matters - i.e., if you have an application or use case or
customer where speed is crucial, then test it using that
application, or find a test that mimics that application.
If you care about interpreting your tests, you might start here
http://shlang.com/writing/tcp-perf.html
Regards
Marshall
> Regards,
> Shake
>
>
