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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#44546A'>I think the motivation for the paid/onsite version of ookla was so that we could say how good our customers speed is, without going through the internet. We can’t control utilization on the Internet, but we can internally.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#44546A'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#44546A'>-Aaron<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#44546A'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Colton Conor [mailto:colton.conor@gmail.com] <br><b>Sent:</b> Friday, January 18, 2019 8:37 AM<br><b>To:</b> Aaron Gould<br><b>Cc:</b> NANOG<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: Network Speed Testing and Monitoring Platform<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>Aaron,<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>How does the <a href="https://account.speedtestcustom.com/login" target="_blank"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>https://account.speedtestcustom.com/login</span></a><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#44546A'> differ from hosting a <a href="http://speedtest.net">speedtest.net</a> server as an ISP, and letting anyone test through it? Seems the speedtest custom is a paid option, but hosting a <a href="http://speedtest.net">speedtest.net</a> server is free if you allow it to the public domain. Sure it uses up bandwidth (which I am sure you have a ton of), so I don't see the point of having a custom one? </span><o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>On Thu, Jan 17, 2019 at 10:27 AM Aaron Gould <<a href="mailto:aaron1@gvtc.com">aaron1@gvtc.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p></div><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in'><div><div><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#44546A'><a href="https://github.com/adolfintel/speedtest" target="_blank">https://github.com/adolfintel/speedtest</a> - one drawback we’ve seen is upload test has issues on some iphones (maybe other mobile devices) in safari, but I think chrome might work, unsure</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#44546A'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#44546A'><a href="https://account.speedtestcustom.com/login" target="_blank">https://account.speedtestcustom.com/login</a> - ookla customer speedtest – we have this running *<b>internally</b>* in our network on VM and also bare-metal, this is where our customers test locally</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#44546A'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#44546A'>Iperf - us engineers used it<br><br>wifiperf – us engineers used it</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#44546A'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#44546A'>-Aaron</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#44546A'> </span><o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div></div></body></html>