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.

From: "Tom Beecher" <beecher@beecher.cc>
To: "Mike Hammett" <nanog@ics-il.net>
Cc: "NANOG" <nanog@nanog.org>
Sent: Tuesday, January 3, 2023 9:07:57 AM
Subject: Re: Google Speed Test

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?

From: "Tom Beecher" <beecher@beecher.cc>
To: "Mike Hammett" <nanog@ics-il.net>
Cc: "NANOG" <nanog@nanog.org>
Sent: Tuesday, January 3, 2023 8:50:35 AM
Subject: Re: Google Speed Test

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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