Is there a speedtest.net-like site you like? -----Original Message----- From: Nick Hilliard [mailto:n...@foobar.org] Sent: Tuesday, August 14, 2012 11:09 AM To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: Testing 1gbps bandwidth
On 14/08/2012 15:43, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: > case trying to use one of the speedtest.net servers - we had a clear > 10G path out through like 3 AS's in a row, the bottleneck was > speedtest.net's server. :) you'll have to forgive me for being the cynical type, but I gave up on Speedtest the day they reported 146Mbit/sec download over a link which was hard-wired to 100Mbit/sec full duplex, and later that day they reported 2Mbit from another nearby server to the same box. I figured a stddev of 2 orders of magnitude wasn't going to give me figures accurate enough for my requirements. But hey, this is the Internet: ymmv, ianal, lolwut, bbq. Nick