Your responsibility is also to provide quality Internet service, the whole Internet. Your choices up upstreams, peers, etc. affect the quality of the product you deliver. It's not just hands-off once the packet leaves your upstream port.
----- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com Midwest Internet Exchange http://www.midwest-ix.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Seth Mattinen" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Monday, June 1, 2015 10:39:37 AM Subject: Re: [AFMUG] New Kind of Speed Test On 6/1/15 8:33, Mike Hammett wrote: > I think most people's problems with speedtests are due to the quality of > the network they are providing. A shitty speedtest usually means the > user's experience is shit as well. No, they will often try to find a shitty speedtest server and use that to complain. Just recently a customer has some cloud hosted whatever that was "slow" so their support found a speedtest that reported 0.4 meg for the purpose of shifting the blame. Customer admitted they had them try around to find the worst one. ~Seth
