[162162] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Speedtest Results speedtest.net vs Mikrotik bandwidth test
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jason Hellenthal)
Thu Apr 4 04:35:31 2013
In-Reply-To: <515D3651.7050600@tiedyenetworks.com>
From: Jason Hellenthal <jhellenthal@dataix.net>
Date: Thu, 4 Apr 2013 04:35:13 -0400
To: Mike <mike-nanog@tiedyenetworks.com>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
When is speed ever ensured past someone else's edge/border ?
You may pass through your upstream that fast but once you are out in the ope=
n range you are free game to all the lions, tigers & bears..,
There is always going to be something eating you. Best off letting it be the=
Spanish queasiness from the night before than the results from speedtest.ne=
t
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Jason Hellenthal
JJH448-ARIN
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On Apr 4, 2013, at 4:14, Mike <mike-nanog@tiedyenetworks.com> wrote:
> On 04/03/2013 02:48 PM, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
>> On Wed, 03 Apr 2013 14:07:48 -0700, Mike said:
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>>> These speedtests are pure unscientific bs and I'd love to see them
>>> called out on the carpet for it.
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>> As far as I know, it's possible for the end-to-end reported values to be
>> lower than your immediate upstream due to issues further upstream.
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>> But if it reports 20MBbits/sec down and 5MBits/sec up, then the link is
>> able to go *at least* that fast.
>>=20
>> (If anybody's got evidence of it reporting more than the link is technica=
lly
>> capable of, feel free to correct me...)
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> Yeah, I do... I've had T1 lines reported at 4.7mbps down and 2.8mbps up.
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> These tests are hogwash.
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> Mike-
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