[147833] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Speed Test Results
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joe Maimon)
Fri Dec 23 07:46:41 2011
Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2011 07:45:39 -0500
From: Joe Maimon <jmaimon@ttec.com>
To: Leigh Porter <leigh.porter@ukbroadband.com>
In-Reply-To: <725D3716-AAF5-4A4D-A4E5-C67E0811C850@ukbroadband.com>
Cc: jacob miller <mmzinyi@yahoo.com>, "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
They are very useful for like-for-like comparison, for an indication of
where your minimum performance levels are probably at, for a quick check
that things are working properly and as expected.
To determine the exact max effective speed? To test qos policies? To
determine whether you are meeting SLA's?
Not so much.
Joe
Leigh Porter wrote:
>
> They are completely unreliable and not to be trusted except for an occasional general indication of speed.
>
>
