RE: Speedtest site accuracy [was: Bandwidth issues in the Sprint network]
Incidentally, Sprint's speedtest site is here: http://www.sprint.com/speedtest The page is hosted off Speakeasy?, but the file is stored on Sprint servers, per their respective geographic region. I'd be interested to see the speedtest results of your OC3. Rick ---- Frank Bulk - iNAME <frnkblk@iname.com> wrote:
Vonage appears to be using Visualware's product: http://www.myspeed.com/
Frank
-----Original Message----- From: owner-nanog@merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu] On Behalf Of Jeff Shultz Sent: Tuesday, April 08, 2008 4:49 PM To: NANOG list Subject: Re: Speedtest site accuracy [was: Bandwidth issues in the Sprint network]
Daniel Senie wrote:
If you go to Speakeasy.net and run their test, the vendor of theirs has a logo showing (and clickable). This outfit produces nice-looking speed test software.
That said, it just reported my Comcast Business account as getting 25Mbps down, and 1.4Mbps up, which is pretty unlikely. Clearing the browser cache alters the displayed speed considerably, so this is a good indication of the usefulness (or lack thereof) of some of this software.
Speakeasy must be good - you're the second person in 5 minutes to recommend them.
What I'm looking for is software that we can install locally on our backbone so we can offer our customers an accurate and up-to-date performance measure of their own DSL circuit - which is anywhere from 256/256kb to 1024/6.144Mbs at the moment.
We're going fiber-to-the-house over the next 5 years so I expect those numbers will continue to rise to the point that problems outside of our network will definitely be more of a bottleneck than problems inside our network - so I'm looking for a solution that will help us illustrate that point to our customers.
-- Jeff Shultz
I just ran a few test off that page. on the Download I get anywhere from 25-30Mbps and on the upload I seem to be getting 4-6Mbps one time when I turned off the AV I spiked to 10Mbps, but was not able to duplicate that rate after that. This site seems to be aimed at testing the sprint wireless cards, and my not test higher speed circuits as well... but I'll see what the Sprint engineers have to say. Thanks for the link. -- Brian Raaen Network Engineer braaen@zcorum.com On Tuesday 08 April 2008, rcheung@rochester.rr.com wrote:
Incidentally, Sprint's speedtest site is here:
http://www.sprint.com/speedtest
The page is hosted off Speakeasy?, but the file is stored on Sprint servers,
per their respective geographic region.
I'd be interested to see the speedtest results of your OC3.
Rick ---- Frank Bulk - iNAME <frnkblk@iname.com> wrote:
Vonage appears to be using Visualware's product: http://www.myspeed.com/
Frank
-----Original Message----- From: owner-nanog@merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu] On Behalf Of
Jeff
Shultz Sent: Tuesday, April 08, 2008 4:49 PM To: NANOG list Subject: Re: Speedtest site accuracy [was: Bandwidth issues in the Sprint network]
Daniel Senie wrote:
If you go to Speakeasy.net and run their test, the vendor of theirs has a logo showing (and clickable). This outfit produces nice-looking speed test software.
That said, it just reported my Comcast Business account as getting 25Mbps down, and 1.4Mbps up, which is pretty unlikely. Clearing the browser cache alters the displayed speed considerably, so this is a good indication of the usefulness (or lack thereof) of some of this software.
Speakeasy must be good - you're the second person in 5 minutes to recommend them.
What I'm looking for is software that we can install locally on our backbone so we can offer our customers an accurate and up-to-date performance measure of their own DSL circuit - which is anywhere from 256/256kb to 1024/6.144Mbs at the moment.
We're going fiber-to-the-house over the next 5 years so I expect those numbers will continue to rise to the point that problems outside of our network will definitely be more of a bottleneck than problems inside our network - so I'm looking for a solution that will help us illustrate that point to our customers.
-- Jeff Shultz
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