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RE: help needed - state of california needs a benchmark
From: Nathan Eisenberg <nathan () atlasnetworks us>
Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2011 18:49:17 +0000
We've learned to pick our fights, and this isn't one of them. -- Dan White
The most effective mechanism I've seen for explaining the problem is latency and VOIP. Set up an artificially latency-ridden, high bandwidth connection, then connect to a PBX using a softphone. One call is generally sufficient proof of the issue. Ookla does offer another metric, at http://www.pingtest.net/, which provides some valuable additional information. You can therefore infer an argument by speedtest.net: Gov: Speedtest.net is an authorative location for all testing. Speedtest.net: Anyone can host our test application, so that is clearly false. Gov: The only important factor in certification is bandwidth to speedtest.net. Speedtest.net: We offer other connection quality tests that don't rely on bandwidth. I often find that statements people make rely on half-truths gleaned from other people, and that generally, the fastest way to conclude an argument is to go to the source and extract the complete truth, and then present in contrast. It is difficult to argue with your own source. :-) Nathan
Current thread:
- help needed - state of california needs a benchmark Mike (Jan 29)
- Re: help needed - state of california needs a benchmark Dan White (Jan 29)
- RE: help needed - state of california needs a benchmark Nathan Eisenberg (Jan 29)
- Re: help needed - state of california needs a benchmark Jeff Richmond (Jan 29)
- Re: help needed - state of california needs a benchmark Patrick W . Gilmore (Jan 29)
- Re: help needed - state of california needs a benchmark Christopher Morrow (Jan 29)
- Re: help needed - state of california needs a benchmark Roy (Jan 29)
- Re: help needed - state of california needs a benchmark JC Dill (Jan 30)
- Re: help needed - state of california needs a benchmark Michael Painter (Jan 29)
- Re: help needed - state of california needs a benchmark Chuck Anderson (Jan 29)
- Re: help needed - state of california needs a benchmark Don Gould (Jan 29)
- Re: help needed - state of california needs a benchmark Mikael Abrahamsson (Jan 29)
- RE: help needed - state of california needs a benchmark Frank Bulk (Jan 29)
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- Re: help needed - state of california needs a benchmark Dan White (Jan 29)