All, thanks for the recommendations both on and off list. It has been brought to my attention that a Mikrotik has a bandwidth speed test tool built into their operating system. Someone recommended a https://mikrotik.com/product/hap_ac2 for MSRP of $69. The release notes of the newest version say:
!) speedtest - added "/tool speed-test" for ping latency, jitter, loss and TCP and UDP download, upload speed measurements (CLI only); *) btest - added multithreading support for both UDP and TCP tests; Do you think this device can push a full 1Gbps connection? It does have a quad core qualcom processor. Besides mikrotik, I haven't found anything that doesn't require me to build a solution. Like OpenWRT with ipef3, or something like that. Seems like a commercial solution would exist for this. I though CAF providers have to test bandwidth for the FCC randomly to get funding? On Thu, Jan 17, 2019 at 2:59 AM James Bensley <jwbens...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, 16 Jan 2019 at 16:54, Colton Conor <colton.co...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > As an internet service provider with many small business and residential > customers, our most common tech support calls are speed related. Customers > complaining on slow speeds, slowdowns, etc. > > > > We have a SNMP and ping monitoring platform today, but that mainly tells > us up-time and if data is flowing across the interface. We can of course > see the link speed, but customer call in saying the are not getting that > speed. > > > > We are looking for a way to remotely test customers internet connections > besides telling the customer to go to speedtest.net, or worse sending a > tech out with a laptop to do the same thing. > > > > What opensource and commercial options are out there? > > Hi Colton, > > In the past I have used CPEs which support remote loopback. When the > customer complains we enable remote loopback, send the traffic to that > customers connection (rather than requiring a CPE that can generate > the traffic or having an on site device) and measuring what comes > back. > > Cheers, > James. >
