Re: Testing Internet Speeds and Capacity

2009-11-23 Thread Christopher Morrow
On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 1:44 AM, shake righa wrote: > At the moment the market is competitive and clients are getting > various different offers from different competitors.Thus you find them > enquiring about speeds hence need to check on the speeds. > > onsite engineers too need to be able to tes

Re: Testing Internet Speeds and Capacity

2009-11-23 Thread shake righa
At the moment the market is competitive and clients are getting various different offers from different competitors.Thus you find them enquiring about speeds hence need to check on the speeds. onsite engineers too need to be able to test and provide accurate results.thus need for a tool that can p

Re: Testing Internet Speeds and Capacity

2009-11-23 Thread Xai Xi
As mentioned, there is a limitation to TCP-based speed tests - TCP throughput is very sensitive to packet losses, particularly during slow-start, in addition to requiring end-host tuning (as an exercise, try running speedtest.net on a high bandwidth connection). You could use something called "

Re: Testing Internet Speeds and Capacity

2009-11-23 Thread Marshall Eubanks
On Nov 20, 2009, at 2:11 AM, shake righa wrote: Hi, how does one truly test internet speeds provided by your provider. I am going to go back to your original question and ask, for what purpose ? Speed test sits give different results that one provided by the provider. Could well

Re: Testing Internet Speeds and Capacity

2009-11-23 Thread shake righa
The tools such as iperf need some level of expertise to use. some end users lack this level of expertise. are there any tools simply for end users to use that can accomplish the same task?\ Regards, Shake Righa On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 6:56 PM, Jeff Shultz wrote: > shake righa wrote: > >> Hi,

Re: Testing Internet Speeds and Capacity

2009-11-20 Thread Jeff Shultz
shake righa wrote: Hi, how does one truly test internet speeds provided by your provider. Speed test sits give different results that one provided by the provider. Regards, Shake Nice ISP's will put speed test software on their backbone so you can test the speed of your circuit to the back

Re: Testing Internet Speeds and Capacity

2009-11-20 Thread James Bensley
2009/11/20 Brandon Galbraith > Speedtest sites (speedtest.net, ndt.anl.gov, etc) or your own tests: > > http://www.google.com/search?q=nanog+iperf Speedtest.net now have their mini speedtest which you can download and put on your servers and then test their speed via your browser. -- Regards,

Re: Testing Internet Speeds and Capacity

2009-11-19 Thread Andrew Cox
There was a thread on speed testing a little while back. http://www.merit.edu/mail.archives/nanog/msg01842.html Regards, Andrew Cox AccessPlus HNA shake righa wrote: Hi, how does one truly test internet speeds provided by your provider. Speed test sits give different results that one provide

Re: Testing Internet Speeds and Capacity

2009-11-19 Thread Brandon Galbraith
Speedtest sites (speedtest.net, ndt.anl.gov, etc) or your own tests: http://www.google.com/search?q=nanog+iperf On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 1:11 AM, shake righa wrote: > Hi, > > how does one truly test internet speeds provided by your provider. > > Speed test sits give different results that one pr

Testing Internet Speeds and Capacity

2009-11-19 Thread shake righa
Hi, how does one truly test internet speeds provided by your provider. Speed test sits give different results that one provided by the provider. Regards, Shake