[155514] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Testing 1gbps bandwidth
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (valdis.kletnieks@vt.edu)
Tue Aug 14 10:45:25 2012
To: Luqman Kondeth <luqman.kondeth@nyu.edu>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 14 Aug 2012 16:05:55 +0400."
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From: valdis.kletnieks@vt.edu
Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2012 10:43:50 -0400
Cc: menong@mengon.net, nanog@nanog.org
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On Tue, 14 Aug 2012 16:05:55 +0400, Luqman Kondeth said:
> No, I don't want to test just the link. I want to make sure the path in my
> ISP also has enough backplane bandwidth and isn't using some old sup32
> and thereby throttling traffic
Still the same problem - if there's a bottleneck upstream of your ISP, you won't
be testing what you think you're testing. (We once hit an interesting corner
case trying to use one of the speedtest.net servers - we had a clear 10G path
out through like 3 AS's in a row, the bottleneck was speedtest.net's server. :)
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