What if you use the dslreports speed test?
On 11/01/2016 01:11 PM, Ethan E. Dee via Mikrotik-users wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ Mikrotik-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/mikrotik-users
