[147895] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Speed Test Results
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Frank Bulk)
Sun Dec 25 20:29:49 2011
From: "Frank Bulk" <frnkblk@iname.com>
To: "'Michael Holstein'" <michael.holstein@csuohio.edu>,
"jacob miller" <mmzinyi@yahoo.com>
In-Reply-To: <4EF4D5E6.50705@csuohio.edu>
Date: Sun, 25 Dec 2011 19:28:24 -0600
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
We host an Ookla Speedtest server onsite and find it a very reliable means
to identify throughput issues. The source of any performance issues may or
may not be ours, but if a customer says things are slow we can usually
identify whether it's their PC or network (browsing is slow but speed test
runs fine) or a local or regional network issue (speed test runs slow).
If a customer gets less than 90% of the advertised throughput, we follow up
on it.
Frank
-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Holstein [mailto:michael.holstein@csuohio.edu]
Sent: Friday, December 23, 2011 1:27 PM
To: jacob miller
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Subject: Re: Speed Test Results
> Am having a debate on the results of speed tests sites.
>
> Am interested in knowing the thoughts of different individuals in regards
to this.
>
>
They are excellent tools for generating user complaints.
(just like the "do traceroute and count the hops" advice from gamer mags
of old).
(my $0.02)
Michael Holstein
Cleveland State University
