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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical RE: Speedtest site accuracy [was: Bandwidth issues in the Sprint network]
We have an test server inside our network that we have customers test again. We tell customers that we can only control our network -- beyond our upstream routers it's best-effort only. That said, if there is a real performance issue upstream we do our best to assist or point the customer in the right direction. Frank -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Scott Weeks Sent: Tuesday, April 08, 2008 1:16 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Speedtest site accuracy [was: Bandwidth issues in the Sprint network] --- [email protected] wrote: Try using the Java test on DSLReports rather than the Flash based test. I've found it to be much more accurate. I also receive the message about compression being used when I test with the flash test. I think it may be a bug. --------------------------------------- This brings up a PITA point for me. Recently, I have seen a rash of "Speedsite test server at <location> says blah, blah, blah" tickets finally reach me and I am telling everyone they're not an accurate way to measure network performance. I notice that at least some are just sending text in Latin. To other medium-sized eyeball network providers (I'm defining medium size as 50-150K DSL/Cable connections and 50-1500 leased line customers): are you seeing this and what do you tell your customers? scott
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