Re: Network Speed Testing and Monitoring Platform

[Colton Conor <colton.conor () gmail com>]

All, thanks for the recommendations both on and off list.

It has been brought to my attention that a Mikrotik has a bandwidth speed
test tool built into their operating system. Someone recommended a
https://mikrotik.com/product/hap_ac2 for MSRP of $69. The release notes of
the newest version say:

!) speedtest - added "/tool speed-test" for ping latency, jitter, loss and
TCP and UDP download, upload speed measurements (CLI only);
*) btest - added multithreading support for both UDP and TCP tests;

Do you think this device can push a full 1Gbps connection? It does have a
quad core qualcom processor.

Besides mikrotik, I haven't found anything that doesn't require me to build
a solution. Like OpenWRT with ipef3, or something like that.

Seems like a commercial solution would exist for this.  I though CAF
providers have to test bandwidth for the FCC randomly to get funding?

On Thu, Jan 17, 2019 at 2:59 AM James Bensley <jwbensley () gmail com> wrote:

> On Wed, 16 Jan 2019 at 16:54, Colton Conor <colton.conor () gmail com> wrote:
> > As an internet service provider with many small business and residential
> customers, our most common tech support calls are speed related. Customers
> complaining on slow speeds, slowdowns, etc.
> > We have a SNMP and ping monitoring platform today, but that mainly tells
> us up-time and if data is flowing across the interface. We can of course
> see the link speed, but customer call in saying the are not getting that
> speed.
> > We are looking for a way to remotely test customers internet connections
> besides telling the customer to go to speedtest.net, or worse sending a
> tech out with a laptop to do the same thing.
> > What opensource and commercial options are out there?
>
> Hi Colton,
>
> In the past I have used CPEs which support remote loopback. When the
> customer complains we enable remote loopback, send the traffic to that
> customers connection (rather than requiring a CPE that can generate
> the traffic or having an on site device) and measuring what comes
> back.
>
> Cheers,
> James.