[119561] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Testing Internet Speeds and Capacity
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (shake righa)
Tue Nov 24 01:45:38 2009
In-Reply-To: <BLU129-W217CCC256E02DE52144E0AC79D0@phx.gbl>
Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2009 09:44:46 +0300
From: shake righa <ssrigha@gmail.com>
To: nanog <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
At the moment the market is competitive and clients are getting
various different offers from different competitors.Thus you find them
enquiring about speeds hence need to check on the speeds.
onsite engineers too need to be able to test and provide accurate
results.thus need for a tool that can provide accurate results.
Regards,
Shake Righa
On 11/24/09, Xai Xi <xaixili@live.com> wrote:
>
> As mentioned, there is a limitation to TCP-based speed tests - TCP
> throughput is very sensitive to packet losses, particularly during
> slow-start, in addition to requiring end-host tuning (as an exercise, try
> running speedtest.net on a high bandwidth connection). You could use
> something called "available bandwidth", which is kind of like the "leftov=
er
> capacity" on your path - I've been using this tool called pathload2:
> http://www.measurementlab.net/measurement-lab-tools#pathload2
>
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