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

Wed Apr 9 12:09:48 UTC 2008

I just ran a few test off that page.  on the Download I get anywhere from 
25-30Mbps and on the upload I seem to be getting 4-6Mbps one time when I 
turned off the AV I spiked to 10Mbps, but was not able to duplicate that rate 
after that.  This site seems to be aimed at testing the sprint wireless 
cards, and my not test higher speed circuits as well... but I'll see what the 
Sprint engineers have to say.  Thanks for the link.

-- 
Brian Raaen
Network Engineer
braaen at zcorum.com

On Tuesday 08 April 2008, rcheung at rochester.rr.com wrote:
> 
> Incidentally, Sprint's speedtest site is here: 
> 
> http://www.sprint.com/speedtest
> 
> The page is hosted off Speakeasy?, but the file is stored on Sprint servers, 
per their respective geographic region.
> 
> I'd be interested to see the speedtest results of your OC3.
> 
> 
> 
> Rick
> ---- Frank Bulk - iNAME <frnkblk at iname.com> wrote: 
> > 
> > Vonage appears to be using Visualware's product: http://www.myspeed.com/
> > 
> > Frank
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-nanog at merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog at merit.edu] On Behalf Of 
Jeff
> > Shultz
> > Sent: Tuesday, April 08, 2008 4:49 PM
> > To: NANOG list
> > Subject: Re: Speedtest site accuracy [was: Bandwidth issues in the Sprint
> > network]
> > 
> > 
> > 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.
> > 
> > --
> > Jeff Shultz
> 
>
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