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Re: FCC Takes Steps to Enforce Quality Standards for Rural Broadband

From: Bill Woodcock <woody () pch net>
Date: Fri, 1 Nov 2019 04:31:36 +0100

On Nov 1, 2019, at 12:37 AM, Jim <mysidia () gmail com> wrote:

On Thu, Oct 31, 2019 at 1:08 PM Jeff Shultz <jeffshultz () sctcweb com> wrote:

What has most people (from anecdotal observation) concerned is that we
are usually more than one or two carriers out from an IXP where the
speed test server will be...


It sounds like there would be some test method concerns there by
having merely one performance-testing server.


IXPs are the only useful place to put bandwidth-test servers.  Downstream from an IXP and you don’t measure the 
relevant portion of the path.  Through an IXP, and you’re testing the combination of your own transit, and the 
irrelevant and coincidental transit of the bandwidth test server, not your own.

                                -Bill

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FCC Takes Steps to Enforce Quality Standards for Rural Broadband Sean Donelan (Oct 31)
- Re: FCC Takes Steps to Enforce Quality Standards for Rural Broadband Jeff Shultz (Oct 31)
  - Re: FCC Takes Steps to Enforce Quality Standards for Rural Broadband Jim (Oct 31)
    - Re: FCC Takes Steps to Enforce Quality Standards for Rural Broadband Bill Woodcock (Oct 31)
- Re: FCC Takes Steps to Enforce Quality Standards for Rural Broadband Bill Woodcock (Oct 31)