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John, Check out Inverse Network Technology. http://www.inversenet.com -scott > From [email protected] Mon Dec 1 15:15 EST 1997 > Date: Mon, 1 Dec 1997 14:50:29 -0500 (EST) > From: John R Levine <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Subject: User-level ISP performance measurement > MIME-Version: 1.0 > Sender: [email protected] > Content-Type> : > TEXT/PLAIN> ; > charset=US-ASCII> > Content-Length: 1422 > > I hope I'm not reopening a huge can of worms here, but ... > > Some of my relatives have started a small ISP in western Vermont. (They > already run the local telco.) They're wondering how to compare the > performance that their users see to the ISPs in the adjacent town. I told > them that there isn't anything published that'll be of much use, since the > stuff I've seen tries to measure backbone performance and for the most part > does so ineptly. > > For user level stuff, it seems to me that you could pick a representative set > of actions (visit large and small web sites, download e-mail, scan > newsgroups), dial in via PPP every hour for a week being sure to flush out > caches and otherwise start from a consistent user state, do the actions, time > them all, and make some simple stats. This would be miserable to do > manually, but pretty straightforward to do automatically. Is there anything > available, either as a product or service, that does this sort of analysis? > > One of the other hats I wear is as a director of a software testing tools > company, and we could certainly whip up this kind of stuff in no time using > our existing products if there were a demand for it. > > Regards, > John Levine, [email protected], Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies", > Information Superhighwayman wanna-be, http://iecc.com/johnl, Sewer Commissioner > Finger for PGP key, f'print = 3A 5B D0 3F D9 A0 6A A4 2D AC 1E 9E A6 36 A3 47 > >
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