Re: Proving Gig Speed

2018-07-22 Thread Niels Bakker
* na...@radu-adrian.feurdean.net (Radu-Adrian Feurdean) [Sun 22 Jul 2018, 13:27 CEST]: On Wed, Jul 18, 2018, at 15:45, Mike Hammett wrote: Fast.com will pull from multiple nodes at the same time. I think there Here in Europe, fast.com consistently proven to be 100% UNreliable, especially on

Re: Proving Gig Speed

2018-07-22 Thread Mark Tinka
On 22/Jul/18 15:25, Mike Hammett wrote: > As someone that has built his own last-mile ISP and knows first hand > literally hundreds of others and coaches thousands more through social media > and a podcast, yes, I realize what I'm saying when I say to build your own > last mile. Hell,

Re: Proving Gig Speed

2018-07-22 Thread Keith Stokes
Typical electrical breakers are not instantaneous devices and likely will not trip at .5% over rated load until they've been run near limit for extended periods of time. - Keith Stokes > On Jul 22, 2018, at 5:52 AM, Radu-Adrian Feurdean > wrote: > >> On Tue, Jul 17, 2018, at 18:12,

Re: Proving Gig Speed

2018-07-22 Thread Mike Hammett
://www.ics-il.com Midwest-IX http://www.midwest-ix.com - Original Message - From: "Radu-Adrian Feurdean" To: nanog@nanog.org Sent: Sunday, July 22, 2018 2:46:25 AM Subject: Re: Proving Gig Speed On Tue, Jul 17, 2018, at 16:42, Mike Hammett wrote: > Build your

Re: Proving Gig Speed

2018-07-22 Thread Radu-Adrian Feurdean
On Wed, Jul 18, 2018, at 15:45, Mike Hammett wrote: > Fast.com will pull from multiple nodes at the same time. I think there Here in Europe, fast.com consistently proven to be 100% UNreliable, especially on high-speed FTTH. OOKla and nPerf gave better results for high-speed connections 100% of

Re: Proving Gig Speed

2018-07-22 Thread Radu-Adrian Feurdean
On Tue, Jul 17, 2018, at 18:12, Andy Ringsmuth wrote: > I suppose in reality it’s no different than any other utility. My home > has 200 amp electrical service. Will I ever use 200 amps at one time? No, because at 201 Amps instantaneous the breaker will cut everything. > Highly highly

Re: Proving Gig Speed

2018-07-22 Thread Mark Tinka
On 22/Jul/18 09:46, Radu-Adrian Feurdean wrote: > You may argue that some of those issues do not apply in North America (the NA > from NANOG), but NANOG became pretty much global :) I am certain that there are places in (North) America where you cannot "build your own" or "order 10% more"...

Re: Proving Gig Speed

2018-07-22 Thread Radu-Adrian Feurdean
On Tue, Jul 17, 2018, at 16:42, Mike Hammett wrote: > Build your own last mile or order that 10% more? Do you realize what you are saying ? Let me offer a few translations: 1. "Don't spend N00 Currency/month for X Mbps from your customer to your aggregation DC on an existing NNI, but pay

Re: Proving Gig Speed

2018-07-21 Thread Stephen Satchell
On 07/20/2018 11:22 PM, Scott Weeks wrote: > Oops, failure to communicate... They folks on the > eyeball end have consumer grade satellite internet > with VSATs in their yard. Thus my CDN in the > satellite joke. That idea would work better with a constellation of LEO satellites, as opposed

Re: Proving Gig Speed

2018-07-21 Thread Mark Tinka
On 21/Jul/18 08:22, Scott Weeks wrote: > > Oops, failure to communicate... They folks on the > eyeball end have consumer grade satellite internet > with VSATs in their yard. Thus my CDN in the > satellite joke. Ah, got you :-). Well, if the earth station on the other side is in a

Re: Proving Gig Speed

2018-07-21 Thread Scott Weeks
--- mark.ti...@seacom.mu wrote: On 20/Jul/18 21:37, Scott Weeks wrote: > Could you explain that? Do you mean logically > near the ground stations? I mean physically in the ISP's backbone. -- Oops, failure to communicate... They folks on the

Re: Proving Gig Speed

2018-07-21 Thread Mark Tinka
On 20/Jul/18 21:37, Scott Weeks wrote: > Could you explain that? Do you mean logically near the > ground stations? I mean physically in the ISP's backbone. They would use the satellite link for cache-fill, but then deliver content locally. This should speed things up a great deal. Having

Re: Proving Gig Speed

2018-07-20 Thread Scott Weeks
--- mark.ti...@seacom.mu wrote: From: Mark Tinka On 20/Jul/18 00:13, Scott Weeks wrote: > What I meant to say is a lot of folks get connectivity > through satellite. 500msec plus and jitter to spare. Would having local CDN caches help satellite-based providers? Sure...

Re: Proving Gig Speed

2018-07-20 Thread Mark Tinka
On 19/Jul/18 17:29, Eric Kuhnke wrote: > Mark already knows this, but for the benefit of the North American network > operators on the list, **where** in Africa makes a huge difference. Certain > submarine cables reach certain coastal cities at very different transport > prices, depending on

Re: Proving Gig Speed

2018-07-20 Thread Mark Tinka
On 20/Jul/18 00:13, Scott Weeks wrote: > What I meant to say is a lot of folks get connectivity > through satellite. 500msec plus and jitter to spare. > > Further it's expensive and all the 'busy' sites cost a > lot of money to download the stuff folks on this list > don't blink an eye at

Re: Proving Gig Speed

2018-07-19 Thread Scott Weeks
--- mark.ti...@seacom.mu wrote: From: Mark Tinka On 19/Jul/18 22:43, Scott Weeks wrote: > I know we're talking about Africa and other less well > connected countries, but good luck with that in the > Pacific, which covers about 1/3 of the planet. > >

Re: Proving Gig Speed

2018-07-19 Thread Scott Weeks
--- mark.ti...@seacom.mu wrote: From: Mark Tinka On 19/Jul/18 22:43, Scott Weeks wrote: > I know we're talking about Africa and other less well > connected countries, but good luck with that in the > Pacific, which covers about 1/3 of the planet. > >

Re: Proving Gig Speed

2018-07-19 Thread Mark Tinka
On 19/Jul/18 22:43, Scott Weeks wrote: > > I know we're talking about Africa and other less well > connected countries, but good luck with that in the > Pacific, which covers about 1/3 of the planet. > > https://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/facts/pacific-size.html Yeah, things and people tend to

Re: Proving Gig Speed

2018-07-19 Thread Scott Weeks
--- mark.ti...@seacom.mu wrote: From: Mark Tinka On 18/Jul/18 16:58, K. Scott Helms wrote: > ... What's really interesting is how gaming is changing > and within the next few years I do expect a lot of games > to move into the remote rendering world. You need to > have <=30 ms of latency

Re: Proving Gig Speed

2018-07-19 Thread Mark Tinka
On 19/Jul/18 17:08, Tei wrote: > tl:dr: the web is evolving into a network of applications, instead of > documents. Documents can't "break" easily. Programs may break > completelly even to tiny changes. Maybe getting webmasters on board of > biasing in favor of documents could do us all a

Re: Proving Gig Speed

2018-07-19 Thread Mark Tinka
On 19/Jul/18 17:06, Niels Bakker wrote: >   > > That will happen as soon as it's affordable for them to do so - which > requires an ecosystem of affordable and reliable independent IP > transit/transport and colocation to exist. Agreed, but as experience has shown, those aren't the only

Re: Proving Gig Speed

2018-07-19 Thread Eric Kuhnke
Mark already knows this, but for the benefit of the North American network operators on the list, **where** in Africa makes a huge difference. Certain submarine cables reach certain coastal cities at very different transport prices, depending on location, what sort of organizational structure of

Re: Proving Gig Speed

2018-07-19 Thread Mark Tinka
On 19/Jul/18 14:57, joel jaeggli wrote: > There is a point beyond which the network ceases to be a serious > imposition on what you are trying to do. > > When it gets there, it fades into the background as a utility function. I've seen this to be the case when customers are used to buying

Re: Proving Gig Speed

2018-07-19 Thread Tei
On 19 July 2018 at 07:06, Mark Tinka wrote: > > > On 18/Jul/18 17:20, Julien Goodwin wrote: > >> Living in Australia this is an every day experience, especially for >> content served out of Europe (or for that matter, Africa). >> >> TCP & below are rarely the biggest problem these days (at least

Re: Proving Gig Speed

2018-07-19 Thread Niels Bakker
* mark.ti...@seacom.mu (Mark Tinka) [Thu 19 Jul 2018, 07:08 CEST]: I'm not sure about North America, Asia-Pac or South America, but in Europe, the gaming folk actually peer very well. The problem for us is that is anymore from 112ms - 170ms away, depending on which side of the continent you

Re: Proving Gig Speed

2018-07-19 Thread joel jaeggli
On 7/19/18 1:30 AM, Mark Tinka wrote: > > On 18/Jul/18 23:56, Keith Stokes wrote: > >> At least in the US, Jane also doesn’t really have a choice of her >> electricity provider, so she’s not getting bombarded with advertising >> from vendors selling “Faster WiFi” than the next guy. I don’t get

Re: Proving Gig Speed

2018-07-19 Thread nanog-isp
No, but you can connect iPhones with gigabit Ethernet over copper. Jared >-Original Message- >From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-bounces at nanog.org] On Behalf Of Mike >Hammett >Cc: NANOG list >Subject: Re: Proving Gig Speed > > I don't think iPhones have SFP cages.

Re: Proving Gig Speed

2018-07-18 Thread Mark Tinka
On 18/Jul/18 23:56, Keith Stokes wrote: > At least in the US, Jane also doesn’t really have a choice of her > electricity provider, so she’s not getting bombarded with advertising > from vendors selling “Faster WiFi” than the next guy. I don’t get to > choose my method of power generation and

Re: Proving Gig Speed

2018-07-18 Thread Mark Tinka
On 18/Jul/18 17:35, Brielle Bruns wrote: >   > > Customers are still harping on me about going wireless on all of their > desktops.  Since most of our customers are CAD/Design/Building > companies, during planning, we insist on at least two drops to each > workstation, preferably 3 or more. >

Re: Proving Gig Speed

2018-07-18 Thread Mark Tinka
On 18/Jul/18 17:20, Julien Goodwin wrote: > Living in Australia this is an every day experience, especially for > content served out of Europe (or for that matter, Africa). > > TCP & below are rarely the biggest problem these days (at least with > TCP-BBR & friends), far too often

Re: Proving Gig Speed

2018-07-18 Thread Mark Tinka
On 18/Jul/18 17:00, Mike Hammett wrote: > The game companies (and render farms) also need to work on as extensive > peering as the top CDNs have been doing. They're getting better, but not > quite there yet. I'm not sure about North America, Asia-Pac or South America, but in Europe, the

Re: Proving Gig Speed

2018-07-18 Thread Mark Tinka
On 18/Jul/18 16:58, K. Scott Helms wrote: > > Mark, > > I agree completely, I'm working on a paper right now for a conference > (waiting on Wireshark to finish with my complex filter at the moment) > that shows what's happening with gaming traffic.  What's really > interesting is how gaming is

Re: Proving Gig Speed

2018-07-18 Thread Seth Mattinen
;, "Mark Tinka" Cc: "NANOG list" Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2018 2:32:27 PM Subject: RE: Proving Gig Speed Whats WiFi? Is that the "noise" that escapes from the copper cables? Switch to optical fibre, it does not emit RF noise ... It's comeback time for IrDA ports!

Re: Proving Gig Speed

2018-07-18 Thread Mike Hammett
OG list" Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2018 2:32:27 PM Subject: RE: Proving Gig Speed Whats WiFi? Is that the "noise" that escapes from the copper cables? Switch to optical fibre, it does not emit RF noise ... --- The fact that there's a Highway to Hell but only a Stairway to H

Re: Proving Gig Speed

2018-07-18 Thread Keith Stokes
At least in the US, Jane also doesn’t really have a choice of her electricity provider, so she’s not getting bombarded with advertising from vendors selling “Faster WiFi” than the next guy. I don’t get to choose my method of power generation and therefore cost per kWh. I’d love to buy $.04 from

RE: Proving Gig Speed

2018-07-18 Thread Keith Medcalf
>From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-boun...@nanog.org] On Behalf Of Mike >Hammett >Sent: Tuesday, 17 July, 2018 08:42 >To: Mark Tinka >Cc: NANOG list >Subject: Re: Proving Gig Speed > >10G to the home will be pointless as more and more people move away >from Ethernet to WiFi where the

Re: Proving Gig Speed

2018-07-18 Thread Simon Leinen
> For a horrifying moment, I misread this as Google surfacing > performance stats via a BGP stream by encoding stat_name:value as > community:value > /me goes searching for mass quantities of caffeine Because you'll be spending the night writing up that Internet-Draft? :-) -- Simon.

Re: Proving Gig Speed

2018-07-18 Thread Brielle Bruns
On 7/17/2018 10:18 AM, Mike Hammett wrote: I don't think you understand the gravity of the in-home interference issue. Unfortunately, neither does the IEEE. It doesn't need to be in lock-step, but if a significant number of homes have issues getting over 100 megabit wirelessly, I'm not sure

Re: Proving Gig Speed

2018-07-18 Thread Julien Goodwin
On 19/07/18 00:27, Mark Tinka wrote: > All the peering in the world doesn't help if the latency is well over > 100ms+. That's what we need to fix. Living in Australia this is an every day experience, especially for content served out of Europe (or for that matter, Africa). TCP & below are rarely

Re: Proving Gig Speed

2018-07-18 Thread Mike Hammett
- Original Message - From: "K. Scott Helms" To: "mark tinka" Cc: "NANOG list" Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2018 9:58:09 AM Subject: Re: Proving Gig Speed > Peering isn't the problem. Proximity to content is. > > Netflix, Google, Akamai and a few others

Re: Proving Gig Speed

2018-07-18 Thread K. Scott Helms
> Peering isn't the problem. Proximity to content is. > > Netflix, Google, Akamai and a few others have presence in Africa already. > So those aren't the problem (although for those currently in Africa, not > all of the services they offer globally are available here - just a few). > > A lot of

Re: Proving Gig Speed

2018-07-18 Thread valdis . kletnieks
On Wed, 18 Jul 2018 08:24:15 -0500, Mike Hammett said: > Check your Google portal for more information as to what Google can do with > BGP Communities related to reporting. For a horrifying moment, I misread this as Google surfacing performance stats via a BGP stream by encoding stat_name:value

Re: Proving Gig Speed

2018-07-18 Thread Mark Tinka
On 18/Jul/18 16:22, K. Scott Helms wrote: > Mark, > > I am glad I don't have your challenges :) > > What's the Netflix (or other substantial OTT video provider) situation > for direct peers?  It's pretty easy and cheap for North American > operators to get settlement free peering to Netflix,

Re: Proving Gig Speed

2018-07-18 Thread K. Scott Helms
Mark, I am glad I don't have your challenges :) What's the Netflix (or other substantial OTT video provider) situation for direct peers? It's pretty easy and cheap for North American operators to get settlement free peering to Netflix, Amazon, Youtube and others but I don't know what that looks

Re: Proving Gig Speed

2018-07-18 Thread Mark Tinka
On 18/Jul/18 15:48, Luke Guillory wrote: > https://isp.google.com > > Thought I think this is only for when you have peering, someone can correct > me if that's incorrect. And also if you operate a GGC (which is very likely if you're peering). Mark.

Re: Proving Gig Speed

2018-07-18 Thread Mark Tinka
On 18/Jul/18 15:41, K. Scott Helms wrote: > > > That's why I vastly prefer stats from the actual CDNs and content > providers that aren't generated by speed tests.  They're generated by > measuring the actual performance of the service they deliver.  Now, > that won't prevent burden shifting,

Re: Proving Gig Speed

2018-07-18 Thread K. Scott Helms
> - Original Message - > > From: "K. Scott Helms" > To: "Mike Hammett" > Cc: "NANOG list" > Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2018 8:45:22 AM > Subject: Re: Proving Gig Speed > > > Mike, > > What portal would that be? Do you ha

Re: Proving Gig Speed

2018-07-18 Thread Mike Hammett
Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com Midwest-IX http://www.midwest-ix.com - Original Message - From: "Luke Guillory" To: "K. Scott Helms" , "Mike Hammett" Cc: "NANOG list" Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2018 8:48:32 AM

RE: Proving Gig Speed

2018-07-18 Thread Luke Guillory
: NANOG list Subject: Re: Proving Gig Speed Mike, What portal would that be? Do you have a URL? On Wed, Jul 18, 2018 at 9:25 AM Mike Hammett wrote: > Check your Google portal for more information as to what Google can do > with BGP Communities related to reporting. > > > > >

Re: Proving Gig Speed

2018-07-18 Thread Mike Hammett
ANOG list" < nanog@nanog.org > Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2018 7:40:31 AM Subject: Re: Proving Gig Speed Agreed, and it's one of the fundamental problems that a speed test is (and can only) measure the speeds from point A to point B (often both inside the service provider's network) wh

Re: Proving Gig Speed

2018-07-18 Thread Mike Hammett
http://www.ics-il.com Midwest-IX http://www.midwest-ix.com - Original Message - From: "K. Scott Helms" To: "mark tinka" Cc: "NANOG list" Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2018 8:41:41 AM Subject: Re: Proving Gig Speed On Wed, Jul 18, 201

Re: Proving Gig Speed

2018-07-18 Thread K. Scott Helms
Computing Solutions > http://www.ics-il.com > > Midwest-IX > http://www.midwest-ix.com > > - Original Message - > > From: "K. Scott Helms" > To: "mark tinka" > Cc: "NANOG list" > Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2018 7:40:3

Re: Proving Gig Speed

2018-07-18 Thread K. Scott Helms
On Wed, Jul 18, 2018 at 9:01 AM Mark Tinka wrote: > > Personally, I don't think the content networks and CDN's should focus on > developing yet-another-speed-test-server, because then they are just > pushing the problem back to the ISP. I believe they should better spend > their time: > >-

Re: Proving Gig Speed

2018-07-18 Thread Mark Tinka
On 18/Jul/18 15:24, Mike Hammett wrote: > More speedtest and quality reporting sites\services (including internal to > big content) seem more about blaming the ISP than providing the ISP usable > information to fix it. Agreed. IIRC, this all began with http://www.dslreports.com/speedtest

Re: Proving Gig Speed

2018-07-18 Thread Mike Hammett
- Original Message - From: "K. Scott Helms" To: "mark tinka" Cc: "NANOG list" Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2018 7:40:31 AM Subject: Re: Proving Gig Speed Agreed, and it's one of the fundamental problems that a speed test is (and can only) measure the

Re: Proving Gig Speed

2018-07-18 Thread Mike Hammett
Helms" To: "mark tinka" Cc: "NANOG list" Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2018 7:40:31 AM Subject: Re: Proving Gig Speed Agreed, and it's one of the fundamental problems that a speed test is (and can only) measure the speeds from point A to point B (often both inside the se

Re: Proving Gig Speed

2018-07-18 Thread Mark Tinka
On 18/Jul/18 14:40, K. Scott Helms wrote: > Agreed, and it's one of the fundamental problems that a speed test is > (and can only) measure the speeds from point A to point B (often both > inside the service provider's network) when the customer is concerned > with traffic to and from point C

Re: Proving Gig Speed

2018-07-18 Thread K. Scott Helms
Agreed, and it's one of the fundamental problems that a speed test is (and can only) measure the speeds from point A to point B (often both inside the service provider's network) when the customer is concerned with traffic to and from point C off in someone else's network altogether. It's one of

Re: Proving Gig Speed

2018-07-18 Thread Mike Hammett
"NANOG list" Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2018 7:29:31 AM Subject: Re: Proving Gig Speed On 18/Jul/18 14:11, Mike Hammett wrote: https://www.ignitenet.com/wireless-backhaul/ https://www.siklu.com/product/multihaul-series/ https://mikrotik.com/product/wireless_wire_dish https://m

Re: Proving Gig Speed

2018-07-18 Thread Mark Tinka
On 18/Jul/18 14:11, Mike Hammett wrote: > https://www.ignitenet.com/wireless-backhaul/ > https://www.siklu.com/product/multihaul-series/ > > https://mikrotik.com/product/wireless_wire_dish > https://mikrotik.com/product/wap_60g_ap There is a product for everything; doesn't mean it'll make

Re: Proving Gig Speed

2018-07-18 Thread Mark Tinka
On 18/Jul/18 14:00, K. Scott Helms wrote: > > That's absolutely a concern Mark, but most of the CPE vendors that > support doing this are providing enough juice to keep up with their > max forwarding/routing data rates.  I don't see 10 Gbps in residential > Internet service being normal for

Re: Proving Gig Speed

2018-07-18 Thread Mark Tinka
On 18/Jul/18 00:01, Saku Ytti wrote: > Already fairly common in Finland to have just LTE dongle for Internet, > especially for younger people. DNA quotes average consumption of 8GB > per subscriber per month. You can get unlimited for 20eur/month, it's > much faster than DSL with lower

Re: Proving Gig Speed

2018-07-18 Thread Mike Hammett
-ix.com - Original Message - From: "Mark Tinka" To: "Mike Hammett" Cc: "NANOG list" Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2018 6:57:28 AM Subject: Re: Proving Gig Speed On 17/Jul/18 18:07, Mike Hammett wrote: The problem cited is the last 100', not the

Re: Proving Gig Speed

2018-07-18 Thread Mark Tinka
On 17/Jul/18 19:44, b...@theworld.com wrote: > Re: 10gb TTH > > Just a thought: > > Do they need 10gb? Or do they need multiple 1gb (e.g.) channels which > might be cheaper and easier to provision? In my house, for example, I only have a single fibre core coming into my house (single fibre

Re: Proving Gig Speed

2018-07-18 Thread Mark Tinka
On 17/Jul/18 19:45, James Bensley wrote: > Hi Mark, > > Our field engineers have 1G testers, but even at 1G they are costly > (in 2018!), so none have 10Gbps or higher testers and we also only do > this for those that demand it (i.e. no 20Mbps EFM customer ever asks > for a JSDU/EXO test,

Re: Proving Gig Speed

2018-07-18 Thread Mark Tinka
On 17/Jul/18 18:12, Andy Ringsmuth wrote: > I suppose in reality it’s no different than any other utility. My home has > 200 amp electrical service. Will I ever use 200 amps at one time? Highly > highly unlikely. But if my electrical utility wanted to advertise “200 amp > service in all

Re: Proving Gig Speed

2018-07-18 Thread K. Scott Helms
That's absolutely a concern Mark, but most of the CPE vendors that support doing this are providing enough juice to keep up with their max forwarding/routing data rates. I don't see 10 Gbps in residential Internet service being normal for quite a long time off even if the port itself is capable

Re: Proving Gig Speed

2018-07-18 Thread Mark Tinka
On 17/Jul/18 18:07, Mike Hammett wrote: > The problem cited is the last 100', not the last mile. > > For ISPs using 60 GHz for the last mile, a wire is ran from the outdoor > antenna to the indoor router. Yeah, the question was rhetorical. I personally don't see ISP's using 60GHz to

Re: Proving Gig Speed

2018-07-18 Thread Mark Tinka
On 17/Jul/18 17:52, Mike Hammett wrote: > Most ISPs I know build their own last mile. There's a whole world out there... Mark.

Re: Proving Gig Speed

2018-07-17 Thread Saku Ytti
On Wed, 18 Jul 2018 at 00:47, Alan Buxey wrote: > another prediction would be that your internet connection (and most devices > in house) connected by 5G - maybe with some local > WiFi - 802.11ax - if theres still spectrum left after the LTE groups have > taken it all for aforementioned 5G

Re: Proving Gig Speed

2018-07-17 Thread Alan Buxey
hi, another prediction would be that your internet connection (and most devices in house) connected by 5G - maybe with some local WiFi - 802.11ax - if theres still spectrum left after the LTE groups have taken it all for aforementioned 5G purposes... legacy devices, still around for another

Re: Proving Gig Speed

2018-07-17 Thread Scott Weeks
--- mark.ti...@seacom.mu wrote: From: Mark Tinka As Trump said..." -- That should be added to Godwin's Law! >:-/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin's_law scott

Re: Proving Gig Speed

2018-07-17 Thread James Bensley
> From: "James Bensley" > Also I recommend you test to a server on you network near to your > peering & transit edge. This way users can test up to the point where > you would have over the "The Internet" and have no further control. > Testing to a server off-net (like off-net Ookla tells me

Re: Proving Gig Speed

2018-07-17 Thread James Bensley
On 17 July 2018 at 17:18, Mike Hammett wrote: > I don't think you understand the gravity of the in-home interference issue. > Unfortunately, neither does the IEEE. > > It doesn't need to be in lock-step, but if a significant number of homes have > issues getting over 100 megabit wirelessly, I'm

Re: Proving Gig Speed

2018-07-17 Thread valdis . kletnieks
On Tue, 17 Jul 2018 13:44:07 -0400, b...@theworld.com said: > Do they need 10gb? Or do they need multiple 1gb (e.g.) channels which > might be cheaper and easier to provision? Doesn't DOCSIS channel bonding already do that? pgp9iFUM4Ez85.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Proving Gig Speed

2018-07-17 Thread Michael Thomas
SoIP surely will sure require trigabits. Mike On 7/17/18 8:38 AM, Saku Ytti wrote: On Tue, 17 Jul 2018 at 17:45, Mike Hammett wrote: 10G to the home will be pointless as more and more people move away from Ethernet to WiFi where the noise floor for most installs prevents anyone from

Re: Proving Gig Speed

2018-07-17 Thread James Bensley
On 17 July 2018 at 12:50, Mark Tinka wrote: > But to answer your questions - for some customers, we insist on JDSU > testing for large capacities, but only if it's worth the effort. > > Mark. Hi Mark, Our field engineers have 1G testers, but even at 1G they are costly (in 2018!), so none have

Re: Proving Gig Speed

2018-07-17 Thread bzs
Re: 10gb TTH Just a thought: Do they need 10gb? Or do they need multiple 1gb (e.g.) channels which might be cheaper and easier to provision? -- -Barry Shein Software Tool & Die| b...@theworld.com | http://www.TheWorld.com Purveyors to the Trade | Voice: +1

Re: Proving Gig Speed

2018-07-17 Thread James Bensley
On 17 July 2018 at 09:54, Saku Ytti wrote: > On Tue, 17 Jul 2018 at 10:53, James Bensley wrote: > >> Virtually any modern day laptop with a 1G NIC will saturate a 1G link >> using UDP traffic in iPerf with ease. I crummy i3 netbook with 1G NIC >> can do it on one core/thread. > > I guess if you

Re: Proving Gig Speed

2018-07-17 Thread Mike Hammett
at best. - Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com Midwest-IX http://www.midwest-ix.com - Original Message - From: "Joe Greco" To: "Mike Hammett" Cc: nanog@nanog.org Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2018 11:11:29 AM Subject: R

Re: Proving Gig Speed

2018-07-17 Thread Andy Ringsmuth
> On Jul 17, 2018, at 10:44 AM, Mark Tinka wrote: > > > > On 17/Jul/18 16:41, Mike Hammett wrote: > >> 10G to the home will be pointless as more and more people move away >> from Ethernet to WiFi where the noise floor for most installs prevents >> anyone from reaching 802.11n speeds, much

Re: Proving Gig Speed

2018-07-17 Thread Mike Hammett
Message - From: "Mark Tinka" To: "Daniel Ankers" , "Mike Hammett" , "NANOG list" Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2018 10:58:22 AM Subject: Re: Proving Gig Speed On 17/Jul/18 17:46, Daniel Ankers wrote: That's unless 802.11ad/.11ay gain in pop

Re: Proving Gig Speed

2018-07-17 Thread Mike Hammett
mmett" , "NANOG list" Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2018 10:46:10 AM Subject: Re: Proving Gig Speed On 17 July 2018 at 15:41, Mike Hammett < na...@ics-il.net > wrote: 10G to the home will be pointless as more and more people move away from Ethernet to WiFi where the no

Re: Proving Gig Speed

2018-07-17 Thread Mark Tinka
On 17/Jul/18 17:46, Daniel Ankers wrote: > That's unless 802.11ad/.11ay gain in popularity. 60GHz offers lots of > bandwidth and isn't particularly good at getting through brick walls, which > might offer some relief to the noise floor problem. So if 60GHz can't get through brick walls, how

Re: Proving Gig Speed

2018-07-17 Thread Mike Hammett
Operators' Group" Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2018 10:45:48 AM Subject: Re: Proving Gig Speed On 17/Jul/18 16:42, Mike Hammett wrote: Build your own last mile... Hmmh, don't know why everyone doesn't just do that. or order that 10% more? As Trump said, "All I can do is ask the question..." Mark.

Re: Proving Gig Speed

2018-07-17 Thread Mike Hammett
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Re: Proving Gig Speed

2018-07-17 Thread Mark Tinka
On 17/Jul/18 17:38, Saku Ytti wrote: > I admire your confidence, when historically we've had poor success in > these type of predictions. I seriously doubt we're now living in > special time in history where we find the limit of consumer bandwidth > demand, while I have no idea what would

Re: Proving Gig Speed

2018-07-17 Thread Daniel Ankers
On 17 July 2018 at 15:41, Mike Hammett wrote: > 10G to the home will be pointless as more and more people move away from > Ethernet to WiFi where the noise floor for most installs prevents anyone > from reaching 802.11n speeds, much less whatever alphabet soup comes later. > > That's unless

Re: Proving Gig Speed

2018-07-17 Thread Mark Tinka
On 17/Jul/18 16:42, Mike Hammett wrote: > Build your own last mile... Hmmh, don't know why everyone doesn't just do that. > or order that 10% more? As Trump said, "All I can do is ask the question..." Mark.

Re: Proving Gig Speed

2018-07-17 Thread Mark Tinka
On 17/Jul/18 16:41, Mike Hammett wrote: > 10G to the home will be pointless as more and more people move away > from Ethernet to WiFi where the noise floor for most installs prevents > anyone from reaching 802.11n speeds, much less whatever alphabet soup > comes later. Doesn't stop customers

Re: Proving Gig Speed

2018-07-17 Thread Saku Ytti
On Tue, 17 Jul 2018 at 17:45, Mike Hammett wrote: > 10G to the home will be pointless as more and more people move away from > Ethernet to WiFi where the noise floor for most installs prevents anyone from > reaching 802.11n speeds, much less whatever alphabet soup comes later. I admire your

Re: Proving Gig Speed

2018-07-17 Thread Mike Hammett
Unrelated. - Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com Midwest-IX http://www.midwest-ix.com - Original Message - From: "Brant Ian Stevens" To: nanog@nanog.org Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2018 9:47:35 AM Subject: Re: Proving

Re: Proving Gig Speed

2018-07-17 Thread Andy Ringsmuth
> On Jul 17, 2018, at 9:41 AM, Mike Hammett wrote: > > 10G to the home will be pointless as more and more people move away from > Ethernet to WiFi where the noise floor for most installs prevents anyone from > reaching 802.11n speeds, much less whatever alphabet soup comes later. > > > >

Re: Proving Gig Speed

2018-07-17 Thread Brant Ian Stevens
cott Helms" Cc: "NANOG list" Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2018 7:11:35 AM Subject: Re: Proving Gig Speed On 17/Jul/18 14:07, K. Scott Helms wrote: That's absolutely true, but I don't see any real alternatives in some cases. I've actually built automated testing into some of the CPE

Re: Proving Gig Speed

2018-07-17 Thread Mike Hammett
Operators' Group" Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2018 7:12:39 AM Subject: Re: Proving Gig Speed On 17/Jul/18 14:07, Matt Hoppes wrote: > Which is why we over provision by 10%. After a bunch of customers, it starts to add ($$) up. And what do you do if you don't own the last mile, a

Re: Proving Gig Speed

2018-07-17 Thread Mike Hammett
-il.com Midwest-IX http://www.midwest-ix.com - Original Message - From: "Mark Tinka" To: "K. Scott Helms" Cc: "NANOG list" Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2018 7:11:35 AM Subject: Re: Proving Gig Speed On 17/Jul/18 14:07, K. Scott Helms wrote: >

Re: Proving Gig Speed

2018-07-17 Thread Mike Hammett
day, July 17, 2018 2:49:58 AM Subject: Re: Proving Gig Speed On 16 July 2018 at 18:58, Chris Gross wrote: Hi Chris, > I'm curious what people here have found as a good standard for providing > solid speedtest results to customers. All our techs have Dell laptops of > various model

Re: Proving Gig Speed

2018-07-17 Thread Morgan A. Miskell
I use my Lenovo Thinkpad with or any "decent" client machine and run iperf to prove the connectivity. Of course, client switch quality or firewall can be an issue. On 07/16/2018 01:58 PM, Chris Gross wrote: I'm curious what people here have found as a good standard for providing solid

Re: Proving Gig Speed

2018-07-17 Thread Eddie Parra
+1 to Jared. I’ve seen people not account for this when sizing CoS as well on Juniper. -Eddie > On Jul 16, 2018, at 11:08 AM, Jared Mauch wrote: > >> On Mon, Jul 16, 2018 at 01:02:28PM -0500, Dan White wrote: >> We've found that running windows in safe mode produces better results with >>

Re: Proving Gig Speed

2018-07-17 Thread Mark Tinka
On 17/Jul/18 14:18, Matt Hoppes wrote: > Get a better middle mile. That’s why we use Comcast for much of our middle > mile. Comcast don't operate in Africa. Some countries don't have (m)any options. Mark.

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