[162147] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Speedtest Results speedtest.net vs Mikrotik bandwidth test
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Scott Weeks)
Wed Apr 3 20:28:40 2013
Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2013 17:28:22 -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
--- nick@foobar.org wrote:
From: Nick Hilliard <nick@foobar.org>
>> They may do some magic with bandwidth delay products.. If that was the case,
>> they may have written it for a standard latency versus something that is
>> unreasonable by interweb standards.
I don't know how they calculate bandwidth, but I was surprised that their system
gave such wrong results under what were effectively lab conditions.
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It'd be nice to know if NDT was not accurate as well. Anyone tested it?
scott
