Keynote/Boardwatch Internet Backbone Index A better test!!!

Fri Jun 27 21:05:45 UTC 1997

So are we all going to all resort to name calling now to get our points
across?
Every time you deal with a dynamic object such as the Internet, where
conditions
can change on a minute by minute basis, benchmark results are close to
useless.

The only thing that benchmarks on a dynamic object can do is give you a
rough
estimate of the actual throughput..  The variables to be tested in
something massive
as the Internet and too numerous to count..

SO, lets get on with it :)

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Jesse W. Wheeler
Quality Assurance Analyst

Reynolds & Reynolds
Healthcare Systems Division
Email: Jesse_Wheeler at reyrey.com 
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>From: 	Jack Rickard[SMTP:jack.rickard at boardwatch.com]
>Sent: 	Friday, June 27, 1997 2:00 PM
>To: 	Ben Black; nanog at merit.edu
>Subject: 	Re: Keynote/Boardwatch Internet Backbone Index A better test!!!
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>I'm not a marketing droid.  But only a moron would think that overall
>performance would NOT affect the download of a web page, which is
>essentially what you are attempting to say.
>
>There are certainly other ways to do it.  Approximately Internet User
>Population raised to Internet User Population worth.
>
>Jack RIckard
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>> From: Ben Black <black at zen.cypher.net>
>> To: Craig A. Huegen <c-huegen at quadrunner.com>
>> Cc: Jack Rickard <jack.rickard at boardwatch.com>; Peter Cole
><Peter.Cole at telescan.com>; nanog at merit.edu; marketing at keynote.com
>> Subject: Re: Keynote/Boardwatch Internet Backbone Index A better test!!!
>> Date: Friday, June 27, 1997 2:28 PM
>> 
>> for an exmple of somewhat more complete and better designed benchmarks of
>
>> this type:
>> 
>> http://www.inversenet.com/about/backgrounder.html#2
>> 
>> note that they understand the numerous factors that contribute to overall
>
>> performance.  only a marketing droid could think downloading 50k worth of
>
>> web pages is somehow an indicator of overall performance.
>> 
>> 
>> b3n
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