So are we all going to all resort to name calling now to get our points across? Every time you deal with a dynamic object such as the Internet, where conditions can change on a minute by minute basis, benchmark results are close to useless. The only thing that benchmarks on a dynamic object can do is give you a rough estimate of the actual throughput.. The variables to be tested in something massive as the Internet and too numerous to count.. SO, lets get on with it :) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------ Jesse W. Wheeler Quality Assurance Analyst Reynolds & Reynolds Healthcare Systems Division Email: Jesse_Wheeler@reyrey.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------ --------------------------------------------------------
---------- From: Jack Rickard[SMTP:jack.rickard@boardwatch.com] Sent: Friday, June 27, 1997 2:00 PM To: Ben Black; nanog@merit.edu Subject: Re: Keynote/Boardwatch Internet Backbone Index A better test!!!
I'm not a marketing droid. But only a moron would think that overall performance would NOT affect the download of a web page, which is essentially what you are attempting to say.
There are certainly other ways to do it. Approximately Internet User Population raised to Internet User Population worth.
Jack RIckard
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From: Ben Black <black@zen.cypher.net> To: Craig A. Huegen <c-huegen@quadrunner.com> Cc: Jack Rickard <jack.rickard@boardwatch.com>; Peter Cole <Peter.Cole@telescan.com>; nanog@merit.edu; marketing@keynote.com Subject: Re: Keynote/Boardwatch Internet Backbone Index A better test!!! Date: Friday, June 27, 1997 2:28 PM
for an exmple of somewhat more complete and better designed benchmarks of
this type:
http://www.inversenet.com/about/backgrounder.html#2
note that they understand the numerous factors that contribute to overall
performance. only a marketing droid could think downloading 50k worth of
web pages is somehow an indicator of overall performance.
b3n