I think the motivation for the paid/onsite version of ookla was so that we could say how good our customers speed is, without going through the internet.  We can’t control utilization on the Internet, but we can internally.

-Aaron

From: Colton Conor [mailto:colton.conor@gmail.com]
Sent: Friday, January 18, 2019 8:37 AM
To: Aaron Gould
Cc: NANOG
Subject: Re: Network Speed Testing and Monitoring Platform

Aaron,

How does the https://account.speedtestcustom.com/login  differ from hosting a speedtest.net server as an ISP, and letting anyone test through it? Seems the speedtest custom is a paid option, but hosting a speedtest.net server is free if you allow it to the public domain. Sure it uses up bandwidth (which I am sure you have a ton of), so I don't see the point of having a custom one? 

On Thu, Jan 17, 2019 at 10:27 AM Aaron Gould <aaron1@gvtc.com> wrote:

https://github.com/adolfintel/speedtest - one drawback we’ve seen is upload test has issues on some iphones (maybe other mobile devices) in safari, but I think chrome might work, unsure

https://account.speedtestcustom.com/login - ookla customer speedtest – we have this running *internally* in our network on VM and also bare-metal, this is where our customers test locally

Iperf      - us engineers used it

wifiperf – us engineers used it

-Aaron