[185777] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Fwd: Updated Ookla Speedtest Server Requirements
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eliezer Croitoru)
Thu Nov 12 20:44:57 2015
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2015 03:44:51 +0200
From: Eliezer Croitoru <eliezer@ngtech.co.il>
In-reply-to: <05BF09C5-F623-4AB0-AF92-CF5D162C1747@hathcock.org>
To: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
On 10/11/2015 03:19, Lorell Hathcock wrote:
> Currently using IBM/LENOVO x3550 / 12 GB RAM / 2 x Xeon E5620
What???? This is an overkill for this tiny task.
>>>
>>>10GbE uplink currently handling ~2gbps peak traffic.
These services are not meant to sustain 10Gbe for a very long time.
The specs from:
http://www.ookla.com/support/a26461638/
Are pretty good and accurate.
As long you won't use ATOM CPUs you will probably max the 10Gbe.
Eliezer
