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Re: Keynote/Boardwatch Internet Backbone Index A better test!!!
From: "Jack Rickard" <jack.rickard () boardwatch com>
Date: Fri, 27 Jun 1997 16:35:38 -0600
This is gibberish George. The measurements were taken from different networks, in 27 different locations. It is not even potentially the case that anyone would be measured within their network solely. It is not optimized for customers getting to their own web server. It is a simulation of the end user world or footprint. If you have a web server on one backbone, how will it look to that user population, as compared to if it were on another backbone. Jack Rickard ----------
From: George Herbert <gherbert () crl com> To: Jack Rickard <jack.rickard () boardwatch com> Cc: Ben Black <black () zen cypher net>; nanog () merit edu; gherbert () crl com Subject: Re: Keynote/Boardwatch Internet Backbone Index A better test!!! Date: Friday, June 27, 1997 3:20 PM From: "Jack Rickard" <jack.rickard () boardwatch com>I'm not a marketing droid. But only a moron would think that overall performance would NOT affect the download of a web page, which is essentially what you are attempting to say.Many, many things will affect the download of a web page, when it's an internal server the primary one being where that server is relative to the customer dialins, and how the internal network congestion is handled. This particular test would favor sites whose backbone is highly optimized for their customers getting to their own web server, and only their own web server. Most servers are put where their access is best balanced, and for nearly all servers, that's closer to the outside world than internal customers, because the vast majority of connections are external. This test completely missed any issues related to inter-ISP connectivity and performance. You could score at the top of the pack with a ISP which was disconnected from the rest of the internet during the test period, in fact, a key indicator that the measurement is nearly worthless as an overall gage. -george william herbert gherbert () crl com I speak only for myself, and occationally my cats.
Current thread:
- Re: Keynote/Boardwatch Internet Backbone Index A better test!!! Jack Rickard (Jun 27)
- Re: Keynote/Boardwatch Internet Backbone Index A better test!!! George Herbert (Jun 27)
- Re: Keynote/Boardwatch Internet Backbone Index A better test!!! George Herbert (Jun 27)
- Re: Keynote/Boardwatch Internet Backbone Index A better test!!! Ben Black (Jun 27)
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- RE: Keynote/Boardwatch Internet Backbone Index A better test!!! Wheeler, Jesse W (Jun 27)
- Re: Keynote/Boardwatch Internet Backbone Index A better test!!! Jack Rickard (Jun 27)
- Re: Keynote/Boardwatch Internet Backbone Index A better test!!! Jeff Young (Jun 29)
- Re: Keynote/Boardwatch Internet Backbone Index A better test!!! Jack Rickard (Jun 27)
- Re: Keynote/Boardwatch Internet Backbone Index A better test!!! Ben Black (Jun 27)
- Re: Keynote/Boardwatch Internet Backbone Index A better test!!! Michael Dillon (Jun 30)
- Re: Keynote/Boardwatch Internet Backbone Index A better test!!! Ben Black (Jun 27)
- Re: Keynote/Boardwatch Internet Backbone Index A better test!!! Jack Rickard (Jun 27)
- Re: Keynote/Boardwatch Internet Backbone Index A better test!!! Ben Black (Jun 27)
- Re: Keynote/Boardwatch Internet Backbone Index A better test!!! Ben Black (Jun 27)
- Re: Keynote/Boardwatch Internet Backbone Index A better test!!! George Herbert (Jun 27)