FCC Takes Steps to Enforce Quality Standards for Rural Broadband

Fri Nov 1 03:31:36 UTC 2019

> On Nov 1, 2019, at 12:37 AM, Jim <mysidia at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Oct 31, 2019 at 1:08 PM Jeff Shultz <jeffshultz at sctcweb.com> wrote:
>> What has most people (from anecdotal observation) concerned is that we
>> are usually more than one or two carriers out from an IXP where the
>> speed test server will be...
> 
> It sounds like there would be some test method concerns there by
> having merely one performance-testing server.

IXPs are the only useful place to put bandwidth-test servers.  Downstream from an IXP and you don’t measure the relevant portion of the path.  Through an IXP, and you’re testing the combination of your own transit, and the irrelevant and coincidental transit of the bandwidth test server, not your own.

                                -Bill

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