This thread has me thinking about cases where a MetroE customer might call and complain about throughput issues, and troubleshooting would normally require a truck roll to hook up an Ethernet test set.
Does anyone know of a Y.1564 client application, or know of any past work done around creating one? I’m wondering if a client-side application could be a practical alternative to said truck roll. Sent from my iPhone >> On Aug 12, 2018, at 2:15 PM, Mikael Abrahamsson <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> On Sun, 12 Aug 2018, [email protected] wrote: >> >> It also selects a public server which is outside of your AS thus taking into >> consideration the busy international links which are outside of your >> administration andas a result for a 30Mbps package the measure shows 15 for >> example. > > My experience is that speedtest.net works well up to around 500 megabit/s, > after that it starts to get unreliable. This of course means their test > server needs to be not on the other side of the world, but for North America > and Europe this shouldn't be the case. > > Without knowing exactly your conditions, I'd say your customers getting 15 > megabit/s in Speedtest.net on a 30 megabit/s package actually indicates that > there is a real problem. > > 1. Require that your customers do the measurement wired (not wifi), directly > connected to your equipment (if you provide one). > > 2. If speedtest.net isn't nearby you or you have a weird network path to them > that doesn't work well, look into how you can improve it, plus host your own > speedtest server. If speedtest.net testing servers aren't able to provide 30 > megabit/s to your customers, you most likely actually have a connectivity > issue negatively affecting your customers, not only for their testing. > > I frequently test 500-1000 megabit/s subscriptions. If customer gets 200 > megabit/s in a wired test, it's typically indicative of a problem. If they > get 500-800, that's usually fine and it's other issues outside of your > control that is affecting this (different operating systems have different > TCP window scaling settings etc). > > But getting 15 meg out of 30, I'd say you have a problem you should look into. > _______________________________________________ > cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] > https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp > archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/ _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/
