Network Speed Testing and Monitoring Platform

Thu Jan 17 14:30:10 UTC 2019

There's a Montreal startup called Obkio who are doing network probes (VM
and hardware). I've tested the product in its early phase (i.e. it was
lacking features that are now implemented or are going to be implemented
soon).

They recently launched the speed test feature:
https://medium.com/obkio/app-new-release-v1-6-0-public-agents-support-chat-and-speed-tests-c84651f7008a
and launched a beefier probe called X5001 which can supposedly do 940Mbps:
https://medium.com/obkio/new-hardware-agent-x5001-the-10x-agent-b278e435c458

I think it's worth a look.

Disclaimer: the CEO is an acquaintance of mine

Eric

On Thu, Jan 17, 2019 at 9:04 AM tgrand via NANOG <nanog at nanog.org> wrote:

> Just download the btest.exe
> It run on windows PC.
> Most routerboards not fast enough for TCP test as TCP packet assembly is
> intensive.
>
>
> Sent from my Samsung Galaxy smartphone.
>
> -------- Original message --------
> From: Colton Conor <colton.conor at gmail.com>
> Date: 2019-01-17 7:17 AM (GMT-06:00)
> To: James Bensley <jwbensley at gmail.com>
> Cc: NANOG <nanog at nanog.org>
> Subject: Re: Network Speed Testing and Monitoring Platform
>
> All, thanks for the recommendations both on and off list.
>
> It has been brought to my attention that a Mikrotik has a bandwidth speed
> test tool built into their operating system. Someone recommended a
> https://mikrotik.com/product/hap_ac2 for MSRP of $69. The release notes
> of the newest version say:
>
> !) speedtest - added "/tool speed-test" for ping latency, jitter, loss and
> TCP and UDP download, upload speed measurements (CLI only);
> *) btest - added multithreading support for both UDP and TCP tests;
>
> Do you think this device can push a full 1Gbps connection? It does have a
> quad core qualcom processor.
>
> Besides mikrotik, I haven't found anything that doesn't require me to
> build a solution. Like OpenWRT with ipef3, or something like that.
>
> Seems like a commercial solution would exist for this.  I though CAF
> providers have to test bandwidth for the FCC randomly to get funding?
>
> On Thu, Jan 17, 2019 at 2:59 AM James Bensley <jwbensley at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 16 Jan 2019 at 16:54, Colton Conor <colton.conor at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> > As an internet service provider with many small business and
>> residential customers, our most common tech support calls are speed
>> related. Customers complaining on slow speeds, slowdowns, etc.
>> >
>> > We have a SNMP and ping monitoring platform today, but that mainly
>> tells us up-time and if data is flowing across the interface. We can of
>> course see the link speed, but customer call in saying the are not getting
>> that speed.
>> >
>> > We are looking for a way to remotely test customers internet
>> connections besides telling the customer to go to speedtest.net, or
>> worse sending a tech out with a laptop to do the same thing.
>> >
>> > What opensource and commercial options are out there?
>>
>> Hi Colton,
>>
>> In the past I have used CPEs which support remote loopback. When the
>> customer complains we enable remote loopback, send the traffic to that
>> customers connection (rather than requiring a CPE that can generate
>> the traffic or having an on site device) and measuring what comes
>> back.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> James.
>>
>
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