RE: Network Speed Testing and Monitoring Platform

["Aaron Gould" <aaron1 () gvtc com>]

I think the motivation for the paid/onsite version of ookla was so that we could say how good our customers speed is, 
without going through the internet.  We can’t control utilization on the Internet, but we can internally.

 

-Aaron

 

From: Colton Conor [mailto:colton.conor () gmail com] 
Sent: Friday, January 18, 2019 8:37 AM
To: Aaron Gould
Cc: NANOG
Subject: Re: Network Speed Testing and Monitoring Platform

 

Aaron,

 

How does the  <https://account.speedtestcustom.com/login> https://account.speedtestcustom.com/login  differ from 
hosting a speedtest.net server as an ISP, and letting anyone test through it? Seems the speedtest custom is a paid 
option, but hosting a speedtest.net server is free if you allow it to the public domain. Sure it uses up bandwidth 
(which I am sure you have a ton of), so I don't see the point of having a custom one? 

 

On Thu, Jan 17, 2019 at 10:27 AM Aaron Gould <aaron1 () gvtc com> wrote:

https://github.com/adolfintel/speedtest - one drawback we’ve seen is upload test has issues on some iphones (maybe 
other mobile devices) in safari, but I think chrome might work, unsure

 

https://account.speedtestcustom.com/login - ookla customer speedtest – we have this running *internally* in our network 
on VM and also bare-metal, this is where our customers test locally

 

Iperf      - us engineers used it

wifiperf – us engineers used it

 

-Aaron