Re: Last Mile ISP Quality Measurements

[Tim Burke <tim () mid net>]

We are doing something similar with netpath in Solarwinds, but mainly using the stream URLs of some popular streaming 
services that we see commonly used (FuboTV, etc). Came in handy recently in tracking down customer complaints that 
ended up being a peering capacity issue further upstream.

Tim

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From: NANOG <nanog-bounces+tim=mid.net () nanog org> on behalf of Mike Hammett <nanog () ics-il net>
Sent: Tuesday, August 8, 2023 4:08 PM
To: NANOG <nanog () nanog org>
Subject: Last Mile ISP Quality Measurements

What are other last mile ISPs doing to measure the quality of their connections? We all know pinging various 
destinations. We also all know that pinging a destination doesn't necessarily tell you the whole quality story.

I currently have Smokeping pulling the HTTPS for about 20 - 25 of the "top" websites, per the old Alexa rankings. I 
feel as though I could be doing more. I am more closely wanting to emulate the end-user experience in a repeatable, 
quantifiable fashion. I'd like to do A/B comparisons as well. When I make X change, how does it change?


If I'm already doing the low-hanging fruit path, then so be it.



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