Last Mile ISP Quality Measurements

Wed Aug 9 08:36:41 UTC 2023

  I would personally have end IT friendly mimick and test their existing 
systems on the nee ISP. Especially cloud tech having read a book on 
cloud by some PHD administrators they redefined  cloud as being cloudy 
in a sense to do with not knowing what route your clients packets will 
take to reach the server.

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From: Tim Burke <tim at mid.net>

Sent: 8 August 2023 22:47:06 BST

To: Mike Hammett <nanog at ics-il.net>, NANOG <nanog at nanog.org>

Subject: Re: Last Mile ISP Quality Measurements

    We are doing something similar with netpath in Solarwinds, but 
mainly using the stream URLs of some popular streaming services that we 
see commonly used (FuboTV, etc). Came in handy recently in tracking down 
customer complaints that ended up being a peering capacity issue further 
upstream.

    Tim

   From: NANOG <nanog-bounces+tim=mid.net at nanog.org> on behalf of Mike 
Hammett <nanog at ics-il.net>
  Sent: Tuesday, August 8, 2023 4:08 PM
  To: NANOG <nanog at nanog.org>
  Subject: Last Mile ISP Quality Measurements

     What are other last mile ISPs doing to measure the quality of their 
connections? We all know pinging various destinations. We also all know 
that pinging a destination doesn't necessarily tell you the whole 
quality story.

     I currently have Smokeping pulling the HTTPS for about 20 - 25 of 
the "top" websites, per the old Alexa rankings. I feel as though I could 
be doing more. I am more closely wanting to emulate the end-user 
experience in a repeatable, quantifiable fashion. I'd like to do A/B 
comparisons as well. When I make X change, how does it change?

     If I'm already doing the low-hanging fruit path, then so be it.

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