[184473] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Inexpensive probes for automated bandwidth testing purposes
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Levine)
Sat Oct 3 20:57:20 2015
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
Date: 4 Oct 2015 00:56:53 -0000
From: "John Levine" <johnl@iecc.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <37DBA43E-EE76-4323-962C-30BB988D0C2E@hathcock.org>
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In article <37DBA43E-EE76-4323-962C-30BB988D0C2E@hathcock.org> you write:
>Greetings, NANOG. Happy Saturday to all.
>
>I am running a DOCSIS network that has a noisy cable plant. I want to be able to substantiate and quantify users' bandwidth issues. I would
>like a set of inexpensive probes that I could place at selected customer's homes/businesses that would on a scheduled basis perform bandwidth
>tests.
The RIPE Atlas project uses TP-Link TL-MR3020 minirouters reprogramed
to be network probes collecting data not unlike what you're interested
in. They are $28 apiece at Amazon so I'd expect them to be under $20
in any quantity.
RIPE gives away the source code here:
https://atlas.ripe.net/get-involved/source-code/
R's,
John
