On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 9:53 AM, Murphy, William <[email protected]> wrote: > I work for an Edu with multi-gigabit Internet connectivity and I get > questions from users saying "Why am I only getting 14Mb when I run this > speed test?" I have got to believe that the various Internet speed tests > (Speakeasy or dslreports) are rate limited to prevent someone from shutting > them down. I am able to get 300-400Mb running from a PC inside my network > to NDT servers located on Internet2, so that tells me my border and internal > network is healthy. Can someone on this list shed some light regarding > reliability and accuracy of these various speed tests especially for an Edu > with lots'o bandwidth? Thanks. > > > > Bill Murphy > > University of Texas Health Science Center - Houston >
Best analogy I ever saw to teach Phd's why the net was slow: Take a vacuum cleaner with extensions. Make a set of end connectors from smaller and smaller tubes (garden hose, and straw I think they were duct taped to vacuum cleaner ends). Have the complainer try to clean up a mess with each of the ends. Ask them why it took much longer with the straw versus the regular end. For the dimwitted (eg 2-3 Phd's and various honors) elaborate that the vacuum cleaner is like your computer.. for things local and on Internet2 you get a regular hose. On going to DSlreports etc you are going at some point through a straw. [Actually i think the tube had a straw duct taped at the middle... and had things painted on it saying "What we control. What we don't control. What they control. What they don't control" ] At this point most people realized networking wasnt' the people to complain to] -- Stephen J Smoogen. “The core skill of innovators is error recovery, not failure avoidance.” Randy Nelson, President of Pixar University. "We have a strategic plan. It's called doing things."" — Herb Kelleher, founder Southwest Airlines
