[119557] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Testing Internet Speeds and Capacity
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Xai Xi)
Tue Nov 24 00:03:11 2009
From: Xai Xi <xaixili@live.com>
To: <nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2009 05:02:08 +0000
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
As mentioned=2C there is a limitation to TCP-based speed tests - TCP throug=
hput is very sensitive to packet losses=2C particularly during slow-start=
=2C in addition to requiring end-host tuning (as an exercise=2C try running=
speedtest.net on a high bandwidth connection). You could use something cal=
led "available bandwidth"=2C which is kind of like the "leftover capacity" =
on your path - I've been using this tool called pathload2: http://www.measu=
rementlab.net/measurement-lab-tools#pathload2
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