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Re: Speedtest Results speedtest.net vs Mikrotik bandwidth test

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Scott Weeks)
Tue Apr 2 18:16:18 2013

Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2013 15:37:46 -0700
From: "Scott Weeks" <surfer@mauigateway.com>
To: <nanog@nanog.org>
Reply-To: surfer@mauigateway.com
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org



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You might want to consider putting up a speedtest server internal to your
network.  I know there is a fee but well worth it I believe.  You will
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I would consider NDT as well: www.internet2.edu/performance/ndt

Last I checked, about 3 years ago, speedtest sent only latin text in
large packets.  NDT tests much more.  The customers just use a web
browser and the only caveat is they need to have Java working.

Here's one to get a feeling of what your customers will see:
http://ndt.anl.gov:7123

scott


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