If you are going to roll your own something like a raspberry PI would work. You can also build your own measurements with a platform like ripe atlas. It all depends if you want to run iperf3 tests or simple smokeping type of stuff to correlate errors.
Jared Mauch > On Oct 3, 2015, at 6:27 PM, Lorell Hathcock <lor...@hathcock.org> wrote: > > Greetings, NANOG. Happy Saturday to all. > > I am running a DOCSIS network that has a noisy cable plant. I want to be > able to substantiate and quantify users' bandwidth issues. I would like a > set of inexpensive probes that I could place at selected customer's > homes/businesses that would on a scheduled basis perform bandwidth tests. > > Likely I would need to place a server in the head end or across the internet > that would allow me to isolate and test certain network segments. > > I've looked into these in the past and was presented with some wonderfully > expensive units that would duplicate my network problems into company > financial problems as well. > > Any ideas? I know there are other ways to measure noise in the cable plant > and I am working on those as well. I will soon be running other, non-DOCSIS > networks and need to have the same capabilities to test available bandwidth > on those networks. > > Thanks! > > Lorell Hathcock > > Sent from my iPad
