Matt, How much bandwidth on average are you seeing to your speed test servers?
We're considering becoming a speedtest.net host, but are concerned about the amount of bandwidth generated by users outside our network. -- Blake Covarrubias On Aug 22, 2012, at 9:54 AM, Matt Jenkins <[email protected]> wrote: > We setup a speedtest server. So when customers connect to speedtest.net they > reach our local server. The test data never leaves our network. > > > On 08/21/2012 12:27 PM, Joey Craig wrote: >> We only guarantee from the customers radio to our servers and we make sure >> the customer is aware of that. We use Jperf/Iperf also…works very well. >> How can you guarantee ANYTHING beyond your network? You are absolutely in >> the right. >> >> Joey Craig >> Network/RF Engineer >> Firenet1.Com >> Phone: (662) 510-0764 >> Mobile: (662) 404-1118 >> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On >> Behalf Of Bret Clark >> Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2012 2:22 PM >> To: WISPA General List >> Subject: [WISPA] Internet Speed test..are they inaccurate with wireless? >> >> 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 >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wireless mailing list >> >> [email protected] >> http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > _______________________________________________ > Wireless mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless _______________________________________________ Wireless mailing list [email protected] http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless
