Inexpensive probes for automated bandwidth testing purposes

Sat Oct 3 22:43:58 UTC 2015

If you are going to roll your own something like a raspberry PI would work. You can also build your own measurements with a platform like ripe atlas. It all depends if you want to run iperf3 tests or simple smokeping type of stuff to correlate errors. 

Jared Mauch

> On Oct 3, 2015, at 6:27 PM, Lorell Hathcock <lorell at hathcock.org> wrote:
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> Greetings, NANOG.  Happy Saturday to all.
> 
> I am running a DOCSIS network that has a noisy cable plant.  I want to be able to substantiate and quantify users' bandwidth issues.  I would like a set of inexpensive probes that I could place at selected customer's homes/businesses that would on a scheduled basis perform bandwidth tests.
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> Likely I would need to place a server in the head end or across the internet that would allow me to isolate and test certain network segments.
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> I've looked into these in the past and was presented with some wonderfully expensive units that would duplicate my network problems into company financial problems as well.
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> Any ideas?  I know there are other ways to measure noise in the cable plant and I am working on those as well.  I will soon be running other, non-DOCSIS networks and need to have the same capabilities to test available bandwidth on those networks.
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> Thanks!
> 
> Lorell Hathcock
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