I had a situation for the past year that was very similar. I had a 1 gig port but was only paying for 500Mb from my transit provider as I only had 500Mb from my upstream. My router would pass 400Mb of traffic at night but a speed test to speedtest.net and other sites gave me 25MB max. Even plugged into the router and MT btest were all over the place.
Talked to my transit provider and ask them for an appointment and had the engineer take off all queues from my path and then I did speed tests. Prior to the test 25/25 MB. They took off the Queue at one end and it went to 25/480. Took the queue off the other end and it went to 400/480 (traffic overhead took the rest). They worked for 2 hours turning queues off and on. Nothing worked till they deleted the queues and rebuilt them. Then they applied the new queues and all has been right with the world. Customer speed tests are much better as well. Steve Barnes Wireless Operations Manager New Lisbon Broadband NLBC.COM PCSWIN.COM 765-584-2288 ext:1101 -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ethan E. Dee via Mikrotik-users Sent: Tuesday, November 01, 2016 12:43 PM To: [email protected]; David Funderburk <[email protected]> Subject: [Mikrotik Users] Speed test issue. I have a very strange issue that I've not seen before and it's got my head spinning. It has to do with sites like speedtest.net and speedtest.xfinity.com. We have a tower site where if I plug my laptop in to the tower on the switch (connected 1gig Full) or anywhere in the public or private network extending off that switch, speedtest.net will show 8-13mb/s up and down. Sometimes will burst to 20-30mb/s for a second and then drop. I have tried a few speedtest sites and gotten the same results. Also it's regardless of time of day and who else is on. Now if I run the mikrotik speedtest from that tower location or behind any CPE to the core bgp routers a few hops away, I get about 50-80 on the download (depending on other factors). I thought surely the mikrotik speedtest were just lying, but then as I check every stat and graph all the way to the core, sure enough it is actually pulling that. To make matters worse, I found a free mikrotik bandwidth test server online so that the bandwidth test has to go out through the internet. Just in case it was my upstream providers causing issues. Got the same 50-80mb/s no problem using that test. Can anyone try to explain what I'm running into? I can't find a pattern. Except that I can prove the capacity is there by using the bandwidth test on mikrotik. But speedtest.net is a big discouragement to me and my customers are asking questions. We've tried several servers and sites. Same results. Attached are some resulting screenshots. In one of the mikrotik screenshots you'll see the tx at around 10mb/s that is what I limited it to for that test to try to get a higher number on the download side. The second screenshot is letting them both run wide open. Also disregard the graphs as I started and stopped the test and changed settings a number of times that's why it is so dynamic. -- This message has been scanned by E.F.A. Project and is believed to be clean. _______________________________________________ Mikrotik-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/mikrotik-users
