Re: Announcing Project BISMark: ISP Performance Measurements from Home Routers

[Alex Brooks <askoorb+nanog () gmail com>]

Hello,

On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 9:48 PM, Nick Feamster <feamster () cc gatech edu> wrote:
> Hello NANOG,
>
> We've launched Project BISMark, a project that performs active performance measurements of upload and download 
> throughput, latency, etc. from OpenWRT-based routers running inside of homes.   We have tested our OpenWRT image on 
> the NetGear WNDR 3700v2 and are currently shipping out NetGear routers with the BISMark firmware to anyone who is 
> interested.


Is this similar to the UK (Ofcom, http://www.ofcom.org.uk/) and US
(FCC, http://www.fcc.gov/) regulators scheme that is being run by Sam
Knows at http://www.samknows.com/broadband/test_my_isp and
http://www.samknows.com/broadband/broadband_performance ?

I'd be quite interested to know the difference between them.

Alex