May I ask who the providers were?
On 11/01/2016 01:10 PM, Steve Barnes wrote: > 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
