Updated Ookla Speedtest Server Requirements
Esteemed Legions of NANOG: Does anyone have better and more modern recommendations for the hardware of an Ookla speedtest server? Here is the link to their recommendations. http://www.ookla.com/support/a26461638/ I want a server that is capable of handlilng a speedtest up to 10Gbps. I plan to do this with an SFP+ port when my network comes along. (As soon as MikroTik comes out with a decent 10G CCR router that is compatible with more SFPs.) In the mean time I will just test 1 Gbps speeds off a copper GE port, but want the SFP+ capability so I don't have to repurchase hardware in the next year. Thanks! Sincerely, Lorell Hathcock Chief Technology Officer SolStar Network, LLC Communications FIBER - VOIP - SECURITY - TV FTTH - Commercial - Residential Burglar - Access Control 956-478-5955 (cell) - 956-316-4090 (main) <mailto:lorell@SolStarNetwork.com> lorell@SolStarNetwork.com <http://www.solstarnetwork.com/> www.SolStarNetwork.com TX License #B19998
I dearly would like them to update the software to include a similar bufferbloat related test to what dslreports is doing. http://www.dslreports.com/speedtest/results/bufferbloat?up=1 If you'd like a dslreports server instead... I know who to contact. :) Dave Täht Let's go make home routers and wifi faster! With better software! https://www.gofundme.com/savewifi On Mon, Nov 9, 2015 at 4:27 PM, Lorell Hathcock <lorell@hathcock.org> wrote:
Esteemed Legions of NANOG:
Does anyone have better and more modern recommendations for the hardware of an Ookla speedtest server?
Here is the link to their recommendations.
http://www.ookla.com/support/a26461638/
I want a server that is capable of handlilng a speedtest up to 10Gbps. I plan to do this with an SFP+ port when my network comes along. (As soon as MikroTik comes out with a decent 10G CCR router that is compatible with more SFPs.)
In the mean time I will just test 1 Gbps speeds off a copper GE port, but want the SFP+ capability so I don't have to repurchase hardware in the next year.
Thanks!
Sincerely,
Lorell Hathcock
Chief Technology Officer
SolStar Network, LLC
Communications
FIBER - VOIP - SECURITY - TV
FTTH - Commercial - Residential
Burglar - Access Control
956-478-5955 (cell) - 956-316-4090 (main)
<mailto:lorell@SolStarNetwork.com> lorell@SolStarNetwork.com
<http://www.solstarnetwork.com/> www.SolStarNetwork.com
TX License #B19998
On Mon, Nov 9, 2015 at 9:38 PM, Dave Taht <dave.taht@gmail.com> wrote:
I dearly would like them to update the software to ....
not require flash. Last I knew ookla still required flash, and one should just say no to flash. Dslreports (and other speed tests) work with modern browser technologies without flash or java.
hi lorell On 11/09/15 at 03:27pm, Lorell Hathcock wrote:
Esteemed Legions of NANOG: ... Here is the link to their recommendations. http://www.ookla.com/support/a26461638/ ...
In the mean time I will just test 1 Gbps speeds off a copper GE port, but want the SFP+ capability so I don't have to repurchase hardware in the next year.
also in the meantime, while waiting for the fiber stuff to be built out, you could use a $400 copper-based 10gigE pci card too magix pixie dust alvin http://DDoS-Mitigator.net
You can't get SFP+ PCI cards anyways. I don't think you can very easily get boards with PCI on them, either. I expect he was just typing it out and left the "E" =) Josh Luthman Office: 937-552-2340 Direct: 937-552-2343 1100 Wayne St Suite 1337 Troy, OH 45373 On Mon, Nov 9, 2015 at 5:32 PM, Tom Hill <tom@ninjabadger.net> wrote:
On 09/11/15 22:26, alvin nanog wrote:
also in the meantime, while waiting for the fiber stuff to be built out, you could use a $400 copper-based 10gigE pci card too
PCI's a bit too slow for 10Gbit/sec - I'd definitely opt for PCI-E.
-- Tom
The speedtest.net is flash based. Many computers struggle to measure 1g speed and not because the network is slow. I think you will find it very hard to get a 10g measure. If you like us just want to be sure your 1g users get 1g even when other users are running parallel tests, you do not need to worry too much about the server. It needs a 10g NIC but it does not need to perform more than 2g if even that. You will simply not have that many parallel tests running at any given time. Regards Baldur Den 9. nov. 2015 22.27 skrev "Lorell Hathcock" <lorell@hathcock.org>:
Esteemed Legions of NANOG:
Does anyone have better and more modern recommendations for the hardware of an Ookla speedtest server?
Here is the link to their recommendations.
http://www.ookla.com/support/a26461638/
I want a server that is capable of handlilng a speedtest up to 10Gbps. I plan to do this with an SFP+ port when my network comes along. (As soon as MikroTik comes out with a decent 10G CCR router that is compatible with more SFPs.)
In the mean time I will just test 1 Gbps speeds off a copper GE port, but want the SFP+ capability so I don't have to repurchase hardware in the next year.
Thanks!
Sincerely,
Lorell Hathcock
Chief Technology Officer
SolStar Network, LLC
Communications
FIBER - VOIP - SECURITY - TV
FTTH - Commercial - Residential
Burglar - Access Control
956-478-5955 (cell) - 956-316-4090 (main)
<mailto:lorell@SolStarNetwork.com> lorell@SolStarNetwork.com
<http://www.solstarnetwork.com/> www.SolStarNetwork.com
TX License #B19998
I haven't heard much as far as CCR 10G incompatibility issues. ----- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com Midwest Internet Exchange http://www.midwest-ix.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lorell Hathcock" <lorell@hathcock.org> To: "NANOG list" <nanog@nanog.org> Sent: Monday, November 9, 2015 3:27:20 PM Subject: Updated Ookla Speedtest Server Requirements Esteemed Legions of NANOG: Does anyone have better and more modern recommendations for the hardware of an Ookla speedtest server? Here is the link to their recommendations. http://www.ookla.com/support/a26461638/ I want a server that is capable of handlilng a speedtest up to 10Gbps. I plan to do this with an SFP+ port when my network comes along. (As soon as MikroTik comes out with a decent 10G CCR router that is compatible with more SFPs.) In the mean time I will just test 1 Gbps speeds off a copper GE port, but want the SFP+ capability so I don't have to repurchase hardware in the next year. Thanks! Sincerely, Lorell Hathcock Chief Technology Officer SolStar Network, LLC Communications FIBER - VOIP - SECURITY - TV FTTH - Commercial - Residential Burglar - Access Control 956-478-5955 (cell) - 956-316-4090 (main) <mailto:lorell@SolStarNetwork.com> lorell@SolStarNetwork.com <http://www.solstarnetwork.com/> www.SolStarNetwork.com TX License #B19998
On Mon, 09 Nov 2015 15:27:20 -0600, "Lorell Hathcock" said:
I want a server that is capable of handlilng a speedtest up to 10Gbps.
Do you have (or are planning to have) a clear 10G path to enough systems that want to use speedtest specifically to make it worthwhile? We have a lot of gear reachable at high speeds, but the admins of those servers usually care more about iperf and similar than speedtest.....
imagine lorell has a userbase on his ISP service of lots of 100mbps or 1gbps customers. Imagine some percentage of them want to test their network speeds. Imagine enough of them are trying at peak times that 1gbps to the 'speed test server' is not enough bandwidth. Perhaps he could instead run 10 servers or a 10g loadbalancer and 10 1g boxes behind that loadbalancer? On Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 4:00 PM, <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu> wrote:
On Mon, 09 Nov 2015 15:27:20 -0600, "Lorell Hathcock" said:
I want a server that is capable of handlilng a speedtest up to 10Gbps.
Do you have (or are planning to have) a clear 10G path to enough systems that want to use speedtest specifically to make it worthwhile? We have a lot of gear reachable at high speeds, but the admins of those servers usually care more about iperf and similar than speedtest.....
Good question. -----Original Message----- From: christopher.morrow@gmail.com [mailto:christopher.morrow@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Christopher Morrow Sent: Monday, November 9, 2015 11:26 PM To: Valdis Kletnieks <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu> Cc: Lorell Hathcock <lorell@hathcock.org>; NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org> Subject: Re: Updated Ookla Speedtest Server Requirements imagine lorell has a userbase on his ISP service of lots of 100mbps or 1gbps customers. Imagine some percentage of them want to test their network speeds. Imagine enough of them are trying at peak times that 1gbps to the 'speed test server' is not enough bandwidth. Perhaps he could instead run 10 servers or a 10g loadbalancer and 10 1g boxes behind that loadbalancer? On Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 4:00 PM, <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu> wrote:
On Mon, 09 Nov 2015 15:27:20 -0600, "Lorell Hathcock" said:
I want a server that is capable of handlilng a speedtest up to 10Gbps.
Do you have (or are planning to have) a clear 10G path to enough systems that want to use speedtest specifically to make it worthwhile? We have a lot of gear reachable at high speeds, but the admins of those servers usually care more about iperf and similar than speedtest.....
Good point. There will be no one customer that can get a 10G speedtest from us. But there will be hundreds that should be able to get a 1G test. Should any of them try simultaneously, I want to be ready. Plus I don't know what miscellaneous speedtests from the net to expect, so I want to affordably overbuild. -----Original Message----- From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu [mailto:Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu] Sent: Monday, November 9, 2015 11:00 PM To: Lorell Hathcock <lorell@hathcock.org> Cc: 'NANOG list' <nanog@nanog.org> Subject: Re: Updated Ookla Speedtest Server Requirements On Mon, 09 Nov 2015 15:27:20 -0600, "Lorell Hathcock" said:
I want a server that is capable of handlilng a speedtest up to 10Gbps.
Do you have (or are planning to have) a clear 10G path to enough systems that want to use speedtest specifically to make it worthwhile? We have a lot of gear reachable at high speeds, but the admins of those servers usually care more about iperf and similar than speedtest.....
it sounds like horizontal scaling with redundancy and potentially geographic distriubution on your network would be your big friend here. On Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 12:34 AM, Lorell Hathcock <lorell@hathcock.org> wrote:
Good point. There will be no one customer that can get a 10G speedtest from us. But there will be hundreds that should be able to get a 1G test. Should any of them try simultaneously, I want to be ready. Plus I don't know what miscellaneous speedtests from the net to expect, so I want to affordably overbuild.
-----Original Message----- From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu [mailto:Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu] Sent: Monday, November 9, 2015 11:00 PM To: Lorell Hathcock <lorell@hathcock.org> Cc: 'NANOG list' <nanog@nanog.org> Subject: Re: Updated Ookla Speedtest Server Requirements
On Mon, 09 Nov 2015 15:27:20 -0600, "Lorell Hathcock" said:
I want a server that is capable of handlilng a speedtest up to 10Gbps.
Do you have (or are planning to have) a clear 10G path to enough systems that want to use speedtest specifically to make it worthwhile? We have a lot of gear reachable at high speeds, but the admins of those servers usually care more about iperf and similar than speedtest.....
On 10 November 2015 at 14:34, Lorell Hathcock <lorell@hathcock.org> wrote:
Good point. There will be no one customer that can get a 10G speedtest from us. But there will be hundreds that should be able to get a 1G test. Should any of them try simultaneously, I want to be ready. Plus I don't know what miscellaneous speedtests from the net to expect, so I want to affordably overbuild.
Here is a MRTG from the server that serves gigabit.speedtest.net: http://ballerup1.gigabit.dk/ballerup-core1-xgei3.png This is a 10G interface. The server is used by our users that include many 1G users. You are unable to see that because the speed test is much less than 1 minute in duration (1 minute is the sampling period for the graph) . Also you see the speed tests done by everyone else that uses our server. As you can see you do not need to worry too much about the traffic levels. You would be very unlucky to have two 1G users doing a test at exact the same time. It would be extremely unlikely that you have MORE than two 1G users doing a test in parallel. The tests are simply not that long and people do not run test all day long. They try it a few times, and then again a few times to show off for their friends or during troubleshooting. Based on this experience I will say that you do need a server with 10G interface (like ours) but you would not need to worry much about the performance of that server. Just about any server with a PCIe interface will be able to serve static files with the required speed on a 10G interface. Use something modern like nginx and you are set. The required performance is 1G for one of your own 1G users doing a test plus the background noise from the external tests, which means that you would get a good test with just 1.1G of performance :-). Regards, Baldur
At 15:27 09/11/2015 -0600, Lorell Hathcock wrote:
Esteemed Legions of NANOG:
Does anyone have better and more modern recommendations for the hardware of an Ookla speedtest server?
Here is the link to their recommendations.
After 5 happy years of using Speedtest, we had to drop them this year for a 2 reasons. a) they tripled their price b) their site which used to provide an excellent comparison between ISPs - at www.netindex.com was discontinued for some stripped down 4 country comparison site - http://www.speedtest.net/awards when it used have over 120 countries. The value of Ookla dropped significantly so we just let our license lapse and did what everyone else was doing and pointed our speedtest to: http://uk2.testmy.net/SmarTest/combinedAuto and manage with this free service just fine. -Hank
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