[126070] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Edu versus Speakeasy Speedtest
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stephen John Smoogen)
Thu Apr 29 13:49:42 2010
In-Reply-To: <F2DF7BEF9FB81F4997B7AE7191A14F6604814F1C69@UTHCMS3.uthouston.edu>
Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2010 11:48:51 -0600
From: Stephen John Smoogen <smooge@gmail.com>
To: "Murphy, William" <William.Murphy@uth.tmc.edu>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 9:53 AM, Murphy, William
<William.Murphy@uth.tmc.edu> wrote:
> I work for an Edu with multi-gigabit Internet connectivity and I get
> questions from users saying "Why am I only getting 14Mb when I run this
> speed test?" =A0I have got to believe that the various Internet speed tes=
ts
> (Speakeasy or dslreports) are rate limited to prevent someone from shutti=
ng
> them down. =A0I am able to get 300-400Mb running from a PC inside my netw=
ork
> to NDT servers located on Internet2, so that tells me my border and inter=
nal
> network is healthy. =A0Can someone on this list shed some light regarding
> reliability and accuracy of these various speed tests especially for an E=
du
> with lots'o bandwidth? =A0Thanks.
>
>
>
> Bill Murphy
>
> University of Texas Health Science Center - Houston
>
Best analogy I ever saw to teach Phd's why the net was slow:
Take a vacuum cleaner with extensions. Make a set of end connectors
from smaller and smaller tubes (garden hose, and straw I think they
were duct taped to vacuum cleaner ends). Have the complainer try to
clean up a mess with each of the ends. Ask them why it took much
longer with the straw versus the regular end. For the dimwitted (eg
2-3 Phd's and various honors) elaborate that the vacuum cleaner is
like your computer.. for things local and on Internet2 you get a
regular hose. On going to DSlreports etc you are going at some point
through a straw. [Actually i think the tube had a straw duct taped at
the middle... and had things painted on it saying "What we control.
What we don't control. What they control. What they don't control" ]
At this point most people realized networking wasnt' the people to
complain to]
--=20
Stephen J Smoogen.
=93The core skill of innovators is error recovery, not failure avoidance.=
=94
Randy Nelson, President of Pixar University.
"We have a strategic plan. It's called doing things.""
=97 Herb Kelleher, founder Southwest Airlines
