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Re: Speedtest site accuracy [was: Bandwidth issues in the Sprint network]

  • From: Jeff Shultz
  • Date: Tue Apr 08 17:59:24 2008

Daniel Senie wrote:

If you go to Speakeasy.net and run their test, the vendor of theirs has a logo showing (and clickable). This outfit produces nice-looking speed test software.

That said, it just reported my Comcast Business account as getting 25Mbps down, and 1.4Mbps up, which is pretty unlikely. Clearing the browser cache alters the displayed speed considerably, so this is a good indication of the usefulness (or lack thereof) of some of this software.

Speakeasy must be good - you're the second person in 5 minutes to recommend them.

What I'm looking for is software that we can install locally on our backbone so we can offer our customers an accurate and up-to-date performance measure of their own DSL circuit - which is anywhere from 256/256kb to 1024/6.144Mbs at the moment.

We're going fiber-to-the-house over the next 5 years so I expect those numbers will continue to rise to the point that problems outside of our network will definitely be more of a bottleneck than problems inside our network - so I'm looking for a solution that will help us illustrate that point to our customers.

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Jeff Shultz