Last Mile ISP Quality Measurements

[Mike Hammett <nanog () ics-il net>]

What are other last mile ISPs doing to measure the quality of their connections? We all know pinging various 
destinations. We also all know that pinging a destination doesn't necessarily tell you the whole quality story. 


I currently have Smokeping pulling the HTTPS for about 20 - 25 of the "top" websites, per the old Alexa rankings. I 
feel as though I could be doing more. I am more closely wanting to emulate the end-user experience in a repeatable, 
quantifiable fashion. I'd like to do A/B comparisons as well. When I make X change, how does it change? 




If I'm already doing the low-hanging fruit path, then so be it. 




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Mike Hammett 
Intelligent Computing Solutions 

Midwest Internet Exchange 

The Brothers WISP