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Re: Favorite Speed Test Systems


From: Mike Hammett <nanog () ics-il net>
Date: Mon, 5 Dec 2016 12:42:56 -0600 (CST)

Right, it's mostly ISPs that don't understand the BGP world or how speedtests work. I think, you, Paul and myself were 
the only ones participating that really knew. 




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Mike Hammett 
Intelligent Computing Solutions 

Midwest Internet Exchange 

The Brothers WISP 

----- Original Message -----

From: "Josh Reynolds" <josh () kyneticwifi com> 
To: "Mike Hammett" <nanog () ics-il net> 
Cc: "NANOG" <nanog () nanog org> 
Sent: Monday, December 5, 2016 10:28:22 AM 
Subject: Re: Favorite Speed Test Systems 


There was an afmug thread about this exact issue several months ago. 


On Dec 5, 2016 9:57 AM, "Mike Hammett" < nanog () ics-il net > wrote: 


Ah, this is the first I've heard of slow fast.com performance with someone actually connected to them. Usually it's an 
ISP that's a few AS hops away from Netflix. 




----- 
Mike Hammett 
Intelligent Computing Solutions 

Midwest Internet Exchange 

The Brothers WISP 

----- Original Message ----- 

From: "Josh Reynolds" < josh () kyneticwifi com > 
To: "Steven Miano" < mianosm () gmail com > 
Cc: "NANOG" < nanog () nanog org > 
Sent: Monday, December 5, 2016 9:51:30 AM 
Subject: Re: Favorite Speed Test Systems 

A lot of people have crappy performance to those. For example, from a 10G 
server to fast.com I was pulling around 9Mbps up/down. 1 hop away from a 
Netflix open connect appliance. 

On Dec 5, 2016 9:49 AM, "Steven Miano" < mianosm () gmail com > wrote: 

fast.com is a dead fast/simple download result page. 

...also with a huge customer base - it is often closer to 
speedtest.<ISP>.net|com than some of those others. 

There is also a speedtest-cli available on Linux/MacOS (via Brew). 

On Mon, Dec 5, 2016 at 9:50 AM, Graham Johnston < johnstong () westmancom com > 
wrote: 

For many years we have had a local instance of the Ookla speedtest.net 
on 
our network, and while it is pretty good some other tests seem include 
more 
detailed results. 

I am aware of the following speedtest systems that an operator can likely 
have a local instance of: 

* Speedtest.net 

* Sourceforge.net/speedtest 

* Dslreports.com/speedtest 

Are there others? What is your preferred one and why? 

Thanks, 
Graham 




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Miano, Steven M. 
http://stevenmiano.com 






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