Re: Network Speed Testing and Monitoring Platform

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

Philip,

Which TR-069 tools are you referring to? I looked at TR-143, but its my
understanding it downloads a small file (like 50MB) from the TR-069 server
to the CPE's ram. Then uploads the file back. Unfortunately I couldn't see
how this would reliability test 1Gbps connections. Can you increase the
file size? Most of these modems have like 128MB ram right now?

On Thu, Jan 17, 2019 at 5:07 PM Philip Loenneker <
Philip.Loenneker () tasmanet com au> wrote:

> Connor,
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> If you use the Traffic Generator tool instead of the Bandwidth Test tool
> built into MikroTik, you can definitely flood a 1Gbps link. However it
> requires the device to receive the packets that it has sent out, so it’s
> only viable for links with the same up/down speed.
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> We have been investigating some TR-069 platforms, and several of those
> offer speed test functionality built in. This means our helpdesk guys can
> just click a few buttons to trigger it, it only talks to the CPE (nothing
> on customer LAN), and people don’t need to know how to configure the test
> other than “click here”. TR-069 also has a lot of other advantages which
> you can easily discover with a quick search.
>
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> Regards,
>
> Philip Loenneker | Network Engineer | TasmaNet
>
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> *From:* NANOG <nanog-bounces () nanog org> *On Behalf Of *Colton Conor
> *Sent:* Friday, 18 January 2019 12:17 AM
> *To:* James Bensley <jwbensley () gmail com>
> *Cc:* NANOG <nanog () nanog org>
> *Subject:* Re: Network Speed Testing and Monitoring Platform
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> All, thanks for the recommendations both on and off list.
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> 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:
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> !) 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;
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> Do you think this device can push a full 1Gbps connection? It does have a
> quad core qualcom processor.
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> Besides mikrotik, I haven't found anything that doesn't require me to
> build a solution. Like OpenWRT with ipef3, or something like that.
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> Seems like a commercial solution would exist for this.  I though CAF
> providers have to test bandwidth for the FCC randomly to get funding?
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> 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.