[135832] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: help needed - state of california needs a benchmark
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christopher Morrow)
Sat Jan 29 16:11:46 2011
In-Reply-To: <C33BA4F7-D988-4108-B04D-96F13B60750D@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2011 16:11:00 -0500
From: Christopher Morrow <morrowc.lists@gmail.com>
To: Jeff Richmond <jeff.richmond@gmail.com>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 1:29 PM, Jeff Richmond <jeff.richmond@gmail.com> wr=
ote:
> Mike, nothing is perfect, so let's just start with that. What the FCC has=
done to measure this is to partner with Sam Knows and then have friendly D=
SL subs for the participating telcos to run modified CPE firmware to test a=
gainst their servers. We have been collecting data for this for the past co=
uple of months, actually. More can be found here:
>
> http://www.samknows.com/broadband/fcc_and_samknows
note that samknows has some deficiencies in their platform, at least:
o no ip v6 support
o the home-routers/gateways/aps randomly reboot with completely
non-functional setups
their customer support ... isn't really available, ever.
> While even that I have issues with, it certainly is better than hitting t=
hat speedtest site where anything at all problematic on the customer LAN si=
de of the CPE can cause erroneous results.
>
the above aside, how about using the network test suite from Mlabs?
<http://www.measurementlab.net/measurement-lab-tools>
Or ask the swedish folk who've deployed 'speedtest' gear for the
swedish isp/users to tst against? (common test infrastructure).
-chris
