The visualware servers are Accurate and u can deploy them on your network as 
well. The Dulles,va server is located off the ashburn peering point so that's 
the one I always use and suggest. 

Leon

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On Aug 21, 2012, at 3:22 PM, Bret Clark <bcl...@spectraaccess.com> wrote:

> We mostly deal with business customer and guarantee bandwidth to customers. 
> We validate the bandwidth using IPERF from a Linux server off of our BGP edge 
> routers down to the customer       and IPERF always shows the customer 
> getting the bandwidth they signed up for.  We use QoS to control bandwidth 
> and make sure to not oversubscribe any one link....small ratios of 3:1. 
> 
> Of course eventually at some point the customer runs one of those stupid 
> bandwidth test on the Internet and the results are woefully inaccurate (not 
> in our favor)...but  of course customers take the results as gospel. 
> AAARRRRGGGGHHHH!
> 
> It's not our internet connections, we have three 100Mbps BGP links and none 
> of them run at more then 50% during peak loads.
> 
> Has anyone else found those Internet speed test to be woefully inaccurate? Or 
> is something else going on that I'm missing?  
> 
> Thanks,
> Bret
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