Ok. But to the layperson, that is still not a meaningful test of Google's capacity. Say I'm a 'layperson' residential customer of an ISP with 1G service. I run this speedtest, and I only get 500M to Google. 1. That may still be plenty of capacity for what the user WANTS to do, but they're a layperson. They don't know that. 2. The reason the test peaked at 500M may have nothing to do with Google's capacity. The ISP may have a bottleneck in their network. Perhaps said ISP reaches Google via transit, and that upstream has a capacity issue somewhere. As Jared said, having strategically placed iperf endpoints for knowledgeable folks to investigate possible capacity issues is nice to have, but a ASN specific speedtest for end user diagnosis seems pretty pointless. (Unless the goal is to direct support tickets to that specific ASN instead of yourself. :) ) On Tue, Jan 3, 2023 at 10:31 AM Mike Hammett <nanog@ics-il.net> wrote:
Is there enough available capacity for {insert whatever the customer is trying to do here}.
Can they run 4 YouTubeTV streams or can they run 20? Can they download a file at 5 megabits/s or 15 gigabits/s?
There's not a problem to be solved, but information of a variety of types to be gleaned for a variety of purposes.
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Are you saying that congestion doesn't exist?
Not sure how you took that from what I said. No, I am not.
I am saying your request for a 'layperson' to run a speed test doesn't seem particularly useful to identify that anyways. It's not a first order tool.
What is the problem you are trying to solve for?
On Tue, Jan 3, 2023 at 9:55 AM Mike Hammett <nanog@ics-il.net> wrote:
Are you saying that congestion doesn't exist?
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Does AS15169 have a speed test? It would be nice to gauge the capacity to
a particular network that's something laypeople could do.
15169 has enough capacity to external networks that a speed test from a random 'layperson' is never going to give you any meaningful information.
On Wed, Dec 28, 2022 at 11:42 AM Mike Hammett <nanog@ics-il.net> wrote:
Does AS15169 have a speed test? It would be nice to gauge the capacity to a particular network that's something laypeople could do. I could host something in GCP myself, but cloud is expensive.
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