[123646] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: FCC releases Internet speed test tool
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Scott Berkman)
Fri Mar 12 11:26:46 2010
From: "Scott Berkman" <scott@sberkman.net>
To: "'Robert Mathews (OSIA)'" <mathews@hawaii.edu>,
"'North American Network Operators Group'" <Nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <4B9A5E7F.1030004@hawaii.edu>
Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2010 11:26:17 -0500
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
So have other people noticed that the Ookla/Speedtest.net/Speakeasy
Bandwidth test often comes up VERY short on upload bandwidth results for
anything other than residential-grade asymmetrical services?
We often get complaints from customers saying "I'm not getting the =
upload
bandwidth I'm paying for", and when we ask what they are using to =
determine
this, the answer is almost always either Speakeasy or Speedtest.net.
We certainly don't depend on or recommend these sites to customers (we =
have
our own internal tools and usually recommend FTP or iperf), but everyone =
who
deems themselves semi-knowledgeable seems to find their way there =
anyway.
Do these sites simply not have the downstream bandwidth to handle the =
upload
tests? If that=92s the case I'd really like to see the admins add a
disclaimer of some form directly to the site.
Thanks,
-Scott
-----Original Message-----
From: Robert Mathews (OSIA) [mailto:mathews@hawaii.edu]=20
Sent: Friday, March 12, 2010 10:32 AM
To: North American Network Operators Group
Subject: Re: FCC releases Internet speed test tool
Joe Greco wrote:
> Correction: it _requires_ Java. It _asks_ for your address. It seems
> like it'd work fine if you gave it your neighbor's address. :-)
>
> I noted that I got wildly varying numbers on a laptop and an iPhone =
(there
> is also an iPhone app) and the iPhone app doesn't ask for an address. =
Both
> on the same wifi, and the numbers were off by a lot.
>
> ... JG
INSTEAD of using the FCC provided app, one 'could' always use OOKLA and
M-LAB directly.
The following links may prove to be more helpful to some.
http://demo.ookla.com/linequality/ *and *
http://npad.iupui.lax01.measurement-lab.org:8000/ (Choose the closest
orig/term point to you from:
http://www.measurementlab.net/measurement-lab-tools#npad )
Both sites present varying granularity.. It goes without saying that
one should NOT send one's mother/grandmother to the NPAD site. Pete
(Peter L=F6thberg) being the exception here..... O:-)
Best,
Robert.
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