[192958] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Favorite Speed Test Systems
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mike Hammett)
Mon Dec 5 13:48:39 2016
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From: Mike Hammett <nanog@ics-il.net>
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A lot of people can't differentiate between what the test is testing, a bad test and connectivity issues producing bad results on an otherwise good test.
I'd say that most of the time, it's the last category.
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Mike Hammett
Intelligent Computing Solutions
Midwest Internet Exchange
The Brothers WISP
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Hammett" <nanog@ics-il.net>
Cc: "NANOG" <nanog@nanog.org>
Sent: Monday, December 5, 2016 12:42:56 PM
Subject: Re: Favorite Speed Test Systems
Right, it's mostly ISPs that don't understand the BGP world or how speedtests work. I think, you, Paul and myself were the only ones participating that really knew.
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Mike Hammett
Intelligent Computing Solutions
Midwest Internet Exchange
The Brothers WISP
----- Original Message -----
From: "Josh Reynolds" <josh@kyneticwifi.com>
To: "Mike Hammett" <nanog@ics-il.net>
Cc: "NANOG" <nanog@nanog.org>
Sent: Monday, December 5, 2016 10:28:22 AM
Subject: Re: Favorite Speed Test Systems
There was an afmug thread about this exact issue several months ago.
On Dec 5, 2016 9:57 AM, "Mike Hammett" < nanog@ics-il.net > wrote:
Ah, this is the first I've heard of slow fast.com performance with someone actually connected to them. Usually it's an ISP that's a few AS hops away from Netflix.
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Mike Hammett
Intelligent Computing Solutions
Midwest Internet Exchange
The Brothers WISP
----- Original Message -----
From: "Josh Reynolds" < josh@kyneticwifi.com >
To: "Steven Miano" < mianosm@gmail.com >
Cc: "NANOG" < nanog@nanog.org >
Sent: Monday, December 5, 2016 9:51:30 AM
Subject: Re: Favorite Speed Test Systems
A lot of people have crappy performance to those. For example, from a 10G
server to fast.com I was pulling around 9Mbps up/down. 1 hop away from a
Netflix open connect appliance.
On Dec 5, 2016 9:49 AM, "Steven Miano" < mianosm@gmail.com > wrote:
> fast.com is a dead fast/simple download result page.
>
> ...also with a huge customer base - it is often closer to
> speedtest.<ISP>.net|com than some of those others.
>
> There is also a speedtest-cli available on Linux/MacOS (via Brew).
>
> On Mon, Dec 5, 2016 at 9:50 AM, Graham Johnston < johnstong@westmancom.com >
> wrote:
>
> > For many years we have had a local instance of the Ookla speedtest.net
> on
> > our network, and while it is pretty good some other tests seem include
> more
> > detailed results.
> >
> > I am aware of the following speedtest systems that an operator can likely
> > have a local instance of:
> >
> > * Speedtest.net
> >
> > * Sourceforge.net/speedtest
> >
> > * Dslreports.com/speedtest
> >
> > Are there others? What is your preferred one and why?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Graham
> >
> >
>
>
> --
> Miano, Steven M.
> http://stevenmiano.com
>
