Mike, So are you saying in Mikrotik, there is a Btest tool, a traffic generator tool, and a new speed-test tool? Sounds like this low cost CPE has a ton of options for remote speed test functionality?
On Thu, Jan 17, 2019 at 5:16 PM Mike Hammett <na...@ics-il.net> wrote: > Mikrotik RC has a new speed-test tool. I believe it's an improved BTEst. > > > > ----- > Mike Hammett > Intelligent Computing Solutions <http://www.ics-il.com/> > <https://www.facebook.com/ICSIL> > <https://plus.google.com/+IntelligentComputingSolutionsDeKalb> > <https://www.linkedin.com/company/intelligent-computing-solutions> > <https://twitter.com/ICSIL> > Midwest Internet Exchange <http://www.midwest-ix.com/> > <https://www.facebook.com/mdwestix> > <https://www.linkedin.com/company/midwest-internet-exchange> > <https://twitter.com/mdwestix> > The Brothers WISP <http://www.thebrotherswisp.com/> > <https://www.facebook.com/thebrotherswisp> > <https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXSdfxQv7SpoRQYNyLwntZg> > ------------------------------ > *From: *"Philip Loenneker" <philip.loenne...@tasmanet.com.au> > *To: *"NANOG" <nanog@nanog.org> > *Sent: *Thursday, January 17, 2019 5:07:04 PM > *Subject: *RE: Network Speed Testing and Monitoring Platform > > Connor, > > > > If you use the Traffic Generator tool instead of the Bandwidth Test tool > built into MikroTik, you can definitely flood a 1Gbps link. However it > requires the device to receive the packets that it has sent out, so it’s > only viable for links with the same up/down speed. > > > > We have been investigating some TR-069 platforms, and several of those > offer speed test functionality built in. This means our helpdesk guys can > just click a few buttons to trigger it, it only talks to the CPE (nothing > on customer LAN), and people don’t need to know how to configure the test > other than “click here”. TR-069 also has a lot of other advantages which > you can easily discover with a quick search. > > > > Regards, > > Philip Loenneker | Network Engineer | TasmaNet > > > > *From:* NANOG <nanog-boun...@nanog.org> *On Behalf Of *Colton Conor > *Sent:* Friday, 18 January 2019 12:17 AM > *To:* James Bensley <jwbens...@gmail.com> > *Cc:* NANOG <nanog@nanog.org> > *Subject:* Re: Network Speed Testing and Monitoring Platform > > > > 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. > > >
