[123666] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: FCC releases Internet speed test tool
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Antonio Querubin)
Fri Mar 12 14:27:07 2010
Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2010 09:23:52 -1000 (HST)
From: Antonio Querubin <tony@lava.net>
To: "John S. Quarterman" <jsqnanog@quarterman.com>
In-Reply-To: <1268418889.802182.3230@marut.quarterman.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Fri, 12 Mar 2010, John S. Quarterman wrote:
> Anybody who wants to do it better, here's your chance:
>
> https://www.fbo.gov/utils/view?id=cb712eb3ef384ebe25bfbf6b0a5dfa16
Seems they'd be better off just gathering data from existing speedtest
networks. But speed isn't the only issue they should be looking at. If
the government really wants to make significant, long-term improvements to
the national network infrastructure, it also needs to be encouraging
deployment of multicast and IPv6 to the end-user.
Antonio Querubin
808-545-5282 x3003
e-mail/xmpp: tony@lava.net
