Re: [AFMUG] Priority on Speedtest.net

2019-11-05 Thread Bill Prince
AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] Priority on Speedtest.net How so? I didn't notice any difference from when our server was taken offline (because I didn't have a 10G pipe). Josh Luthman Office: 937-552-2340 Direct: 937-552-2343 1100 Wayne St Suite 1337 Troy, OH 4

Re: [AFMUG] Priority on Speedtest.net

2019-11-05 Thread Josh Luthman
ver, then they will get the highest speeds possible > without you being penalized for network problems outside your own system. > > *From:* Josh Luthman > *Sent:* Tuesday, November 5, 2019 9:03 PM > *To:* AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group > *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] Priority on Speedte

Re: [AFMUG] Priority on Speedtest.net

2019-11-05 Thread Mike Hammett
From: AF On Behalf Of ch...@wbmfg.com Sent: Tuesday, November 5, 2019 2:17 PM To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Priority on Speedtest.net If you host a local server, then they will get the highest speeds possible without you being penalized for network problem

Re: [AFMUG] Priority on Speedtest.net

2019-11-05 Thread Ken Hohhof
...@wbmfg.com Sent: Tuesday, November 5, 2019 2:17 PM To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Priority on Speedtest.net If you host a local server, then they will get the highest speeds possible without you being penalized for network problems outside your own system. From: Josh

Re: [AFMUG] Priority on Speedtest.net

2019-11-05 Thread chuck
If you host a local server, then they will get the highest speeds possible without you being penalized for network problems outside your own system. From: Josh Luthman Sent: Tuesday, November 5, 2019 9:03 PM To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Priority on Speedtest.net

Re: [AFMUG] Priority on Speedtest.net

2019-11-05 Thread Josh Luthman
rver, most of this goes away. > > *From:* Ken Hohhof > *Sent:* Tuesday, November 5, 2019 6:07 PM > *To:* 'AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group' > *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] Priority on Speedtest.net > > > Sounds like an IT guy justifying his paycheck. Why do you need me? I &

Re: [AFMUG] Priority on Speedtest.net

2019-11-05 Thread chuck
If you host a speedtest server, most of this goes away. From: Ken Hohhof Sent: Tuesday, November 5, 2019 6:07 PM To: 'AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group' Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Priority on Speedtest.net Sounds like an IT guy justifying his paycheck. Why do you need me? I call our

Re: [AFMUG] Priority on Speedtest.net

2019-11-05 Thread Seth Mattinen
On 11/5/19 6:45 AM, Adam Moffett wrote: If I'm being honest, it's partly a failure on the sales end to manage expectations on wireless ("up to 50mbps" etc), and partly a failure of tech support to manage the conversation.  IMO they need to not let the customer focus on a speed test result and i

Re: [AFMUG] Priority on Speedtest.net

2019-11-05 Thread Adam Moffett
If he’s downloading a 150 GB Xbox game, your tech support is going to have to educate him about restricting the hours that game consoles can do downloads. That's what I would say too.  The counterpoint is that some people refuse to be educated.  They'll just assume you're the evil lying ISP

Re: [AFMUG] Priority on Speedtest.net

2019-11-05 Thread Ken Hohhof
ething and the auto responder would thank them for liking WGN and offer to send them an autographed photo. From: AF On Behalf Of Nate Burke Sent: Tuesday, November 5, 2019 10:02 AM To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Priority on Speedtest.net It is tempting. This i

Re: [AFMUG] Priority on Speedtest.net

2019-11-05 Thread Adam Moffett
g. If you sell best effort “up to” speeds, the answer may be different. *From:*AF *On Behalf Of *Adam Moffett *Sent:* Tuesday, November 5, 2019 8:46 AM *To:* af@af.afmug.com *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] Priority on Speedtest.net If I'm being honest, it's partly a failure on the sales

Re: [AFMUG] Priority on Speedtest.net

2019-11-05 Thread Craig Schmaderer
Duh, must be morning, yeah you are right on the upstream part. Downstream part would be easy. I need more coffee. -Original Message- From: AF On Behalf Of Adam Moffett Sent: Tuesday, November 5, 2019 10:15 AM To: af@af.afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Priority on Speedtest.net This is

Re: [AFMUG] Priority on Speedtest.net

2019-11-05 Thread Adam Moffett
2019 8:30 AM To: af@af.afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Priority on Speedtest.net The short answer is you don't need to match every packet, just need to identify the IPs of speedtest.net servers.  Easy to do. On 11/5/2019 6:15 AM, Jim Bouse [Brazos WiFi] wrote: Howdy Adam, How are you

Re: [AFMUG] Priority on Speedtest.net

2019-11-05 Thread Robert
rke *Sent:* Tuesday, November 5, 2019 9:43 AM *To:* AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] Priority on Speedtest.net I think it would be a good tool to have in the toolbox, but maybe selectively applied. We have one business customer (Broadband), every morning the "IT gu

Re: [AFMUG] Priority on Speedtest.net

2019-11-05 Thread Nate Burke
pe out of. lol *From:*AF *On Behalf Of *Nate Burke *Sent:* Tuesday, November 5, 2019 9:43 AM *To:* AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] Priority on Speedtest.net I think it would be a good tool to have in the toolbox, but maybe selectively applied. We have one business cust

Re: [AFMUG] Priority on Speedtest.net

2019-11-05 Thread Craig Schmaderer
Nate, you should route his call into a special phone tree that he can not escape out of. lol From: AF On Behalf Of Nate Burke Sent: Tuesday, November 5, 2019 9:43 AM To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Priority on Speedtest.net I think it would be a good tool to have in

Re: [AFMUG] Priority on Speedtest.net

2019-11-05 Thread Craig Schmaderer
t; > Jim Bouse > Owner - Brazos WiFi > 979-985-5912 > http://www.brazoswifi.com > > -Original Message- > From: AF On Behalf Of Adam Moffett > Sent: Monday, November 4, 2019 1:32 PM > To: af@af.afmug.com > Subject: [AFMUG] Priority on Speedtest.net > > I can

Re: [AFMUG] Priority on Speedtest.net

2019-11-05 Thread Nate Burke
a way to deprioritize software downloads, so people can watch video or pay games while new games are downloading. If you sell best effort “up to” speeds, the answer may be different. *From:*AF *On Behalf Of *Adam Moffett *Sent:* Tuesday, November 5, 2019 8:46 AM *To:* af@af.afmug.com *Subject:*

Re: [AFMUG] Priority on Speedtest.net

2019-11-05 Thread Ken Hohhof
Moffett Sent: Tuesday, November 5, 2019 8:46 AM To: af@af.afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Priority on Speedtest.net If I'm being honest, it's partly a failure on the sales end to manage expectations on wireless ("up to 50mbps" etc), and partly a failure of tech s

Re: [AFMUG] Priority on Speedtest.net

2019-11-05 Thread Adam Moffett
If I'm being honest, it's partly a failure on the sales end to manage expectations on wireless ("up to 50mbps" etc), and partly a failure of tech support to manage the conversation.  IMO they need to not let the customer focus on a speed test result and instead prompt them to talk about what th

Re: [AFMUG] Priority on Speedtest.net

2019-11-05 Thread Mathew Howard
There are quite a few people that complain/open support tickets because they're getting bad numbers on speed tests, even though it's having absolutely no effect on anything they do (and that's usually because they're running tests while they have Netflix running on six TVs)... I imagine it would cu

Re: [AFMUG] Priority on Speedtest.net

2019-11-05 Thread Adam Moffett
razos WiFi 979-985-5912 http://www.brazoswifi.com -Original Message- From: AF On Behalf Of Adam Moffett Sent: Monday, November 4, 2019 1:32 PM To: af@af.afmug.com Subject: [AFMUG] Priority on Speedtest.net I can set a higher priority DSCP value on speedtest.net traffic. I tested this on o

Re: [AFMUG] Priority on Speedtest.net

2019-11-05 Thread Daniel White
I've worked extensively with Sandvine and Saisei and this is a topic that always comes up since it is fairly easy to implement via those appliances (and easier to implement across multiple speed testing sites). I don't see it as evil on a best effort connection.  Customers typically are not li

Re: [AFMUG] Priority on Speedtest.net

2019-11-05 Thread Jim Bouse [Brazos WiFi]
AFMUG] Priority on Speedtest.net I can set a higher priority DSCP value on speedtest.net traffic. I tested this on one SM and it works great.  On a busy AP at 9:30pm I was getting speedtest results from 12-20mbps.  I set the speedtest traffic to DSCP 26 and enable a "medium" priority chann

Re: [AFMUG] Priority on Speedtest.net

2019-11-04 Thread Kurt Fankhauser
no i do not On Mon, Nov 4, 2019 at 3:19 PM Adam Moffett wrote: > Do you do something like it already? > On 11/4/2019 2:45 PM, Kurt Fankhauser wrote: > > i see nothing wrong with doing this > > On Mon, Nov 4, 2019 at 2:32 PM Adam Moffett wrote: > >> I can set a higher priority DSCP value on spee

Re: [AFMUG] Priority on Speedtest.net

2019-11-04 Thread Adam Moffett
My current thinking If I were to implement the policy as more than an experiment then I think I'd set DSCP 46 for identifiable VoIP, 26 for speedtest.net, and 0 for everything else. On 11/4/2019 3:29 PM, Eric Muehleisen wrote: I wonder what other traffic might get prioritized as a result? On

Re: [AFMUG] Priority on Speedtest.net

2019-11-04 Thread Eric Muehleisen
I wonder what other traffic might get prioritized as a result? On Mon, Nov 4, 2019 at 1:33 PM Adam Moffett wrote: > I can set a higher priority DSCP value on speedtest.net traffic. I > tested this on one SM and it works great. On a busy AP at 9:30pm I was > getting speedtest results from 12-20m

Re: [AFMUG] Priority on Speedtest.net

2019-11-04 Thread Adam Moffett
Do you do something like it already? On 11/4/2019 2:45 PM, Kurt Fankhauser wrote: i see nothing wrong with doing this On Mon, Nov 4, 2019 at 2:32 PM Adam Moffett > wrote: I can set a higher priority DSCP value on speedtest.net traffic

Re: [AFMUG] Priority on Speedtest.net

2019-11-04 Thread Kurt Fankhauser
i see nothing wrong with doing this On Mon, Nov 4, 2019 at 2:32 PM Adam Moffett wrote: > I can set a higher priority DSCP value on speedtest.net traffic. I > tested this on one SM and it works great. On a busy AP at 9:30pm I was > getting speedtest results from 12-20mbps. I set the speedtest t

[AFMUG] Priority on Speedtest.net

2019-11-04 Thread Adam Moffett
I can set a higher priority DSCP value on speedtest.net traffic. I tested this on one SM and it works great.  On a busy AP at 9:30pm I was getting speedtest results from 12-20mbps.  I set the speedtest traffic to DSCP 26 and enable a "medium" priority channel and now it's 34mbps every single ti