[185720] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Updated Ookla Speedtest Server Requirements
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lorell Hathcock)
Tue Nov 10 08:40:47 2015
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
From: "Lorell Hathcock" <lorell@hathcock.org>
To: "'Christopher Morrow'" <morrowc.lists@gmail.com>,
"'Valdis Kletnieks'" <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu>
In-Reply-To: <CAL9jLaZwE8Dyth7SGf74O8RcQ3zRhvwM7Jm9t8U1U7ru_erQZQ@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2015 07:35:36 -0600
Cc: 'NANOG list' <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
Good question.
-----Original Message-----
From: christopher.morrow@gmail.com [mailto:christopher.morrow@gmail.com] =
On Behalf Of Christopher Morrow
Sent: Monday, November 9, 2015 11:26 PM
To: Valdis Kletnieks <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu>
Cc: Lorell Hathcock <lorell@hathcock.org>; NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Subject: Re: Updated Ookla Speedtest Server Requirements
imagine lorell has a userbase on his ISP service of lots of 100mbps or =
1gbps customers.
Imagine some percentage of them want to test their network speeds.
Imagine enough of them are trying at peak times that 1gbps to the 'speed =
test server' is not enough bandwidth.
Perhaps he could instead run 10 servers or a 10g loadbalancer and 10 1g =
boxes behind that loadbalancer?
On Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 4:00 PM, <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu> wrote:
> On Mon, 09 Nov 2015 15:27:20 -0600, "Lorell Hathcock" said:
>
>> I want a server that is capable of handlilng a speedtest up to =
10Gbps.
>
> Do you have (or are planning to have) a clear 10G path to enough=20
> systems that want to use speedtest specifically to make it worthwhile? =
=20
> We have a lot of gear reachable at high speeds, but the admins of=20
> those servers usually care more about iperf and similar than =
speedtest.....
>
