Testing Internet Speeds and Capacity
Hi, how does one truly test internet speeds provided by your provider. Speed test sits give different results that one provided by the provider. Regards, Shake
Speedtest sites (speedtest.net, ndt.anl.gov, etc) or your own tests: http://www.google.com/search?q=nanog+iperf On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 1:11 AM, shake righa <ssrigha@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi,
how does one truly test internet speeds provided by your provider.
Speed test sits give different results that one provided by the provider.
Regards, Shake
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Speedtest sites (speedtest.net, ndt.anl.gov, etc) or your own tests:
Speedtest.net now have their mini speedtest which you can download and put on your servers and then test their speed via your browser. -- Regards, James ;) Samuel Goldwyn<http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/s/samuel_goldwyn.html> - "I'm willing to admit that I may not always be right, but I am never wrong."
There was a thread on speed testing a little while back. http://www.merit.edu/mail.archives/nanog/msg01842.html Regards, Andrew Cox AccessPlus HNA shake righa wrote:
Hi,
how does one truly test internet speeds provided by your provider.
Speed test sits give different results that one provided by the provider.
Regards, Shake
shake righa wrote:
Hi,
how does one truly test internet speeds provided by your provider.
Speed test sits give different results that one provided by the provider.
Regards, Shake
Nice ISP's will put speed test software on their backbone so you can test the speed of your circuit to the backbone. Remember that the speed your provider quotes you is probably the full throughput of the circuit. Some circuits, such as DSL ones, will read up to 15% slower due to ATM circuit overhead. -- Jeff Shultz
The tools such as iperf need some level of expertise to use. some end users lack this level of expertise. are there any tools simply for end users to use that can accomplish the same task?\ Regards, Shake Righa On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 6:56 PM, Jeff Shultz <jeffshultz@wvi.com> wrote:
shake righa wrote:
Hi,
how does one truly test internet speeds provided by your provider.
Speed test sits give different results that one provided by the provider.
Regards, Shake
Nice ISP's will put speed test software on their backbone so you can test the speed of your circuit to the backbone.
Remember that the speed your provider quotes you is probably the full throughput of the circuit. Some circuits, such as DSL ones, will read up to 15% slower due to ATM circuit overhead.
-- Jeff Shultz
On Nov 20, 2009, at 2:11 AM, shake righa wrote:
Hi,
how does one truly test internet speeds provided by your provider.
I am going to go back to your original question and ask, for what purpose ?
Speed test sits give different results that one provided by the provider.
Could well be. Speed tests for one purpose (say, TCP web) may be largely irrelevant for other purposes (say, UDP video). If it really matters - i.e., if you have an application or use case or customer where speed is crucial, then test it using that application, or find a test that mimics that application. If you care about interpreting your tests, you might start here http://shlang.com/writing/tcp-perf.html Regards Marshall
Regards, Shake
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