Well... Less than what ookla wants for their thing.
The issue really boils down to the frailties of a browser-based speed
test running on questionable hardware versus a known quantity (btest or
equivalent) and having to put in hardware in inconvenient places.
bp
On 10/22/2014 5:28 AM, Dennis Burgess via Af wrote:
It was, not anymore. What would be a good cost that you would pay
for? i.e. I was thinking of my team programming up one for WISPs J
Dennis Burgess, Link Technologies, Inc.
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*From:*Af [mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com] *On Behalf Of *Jason McKemie
via Af
*Sent:* Tuesday, October 21, 2014 10:38 PM
*To:* af@afmug.com
*Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] Speedtest replacements?
Per the Mikrotik forums it looks like it is proprietary.
On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 9:18 PM, Bill Prince via Af <af@afmug.com
<mailto:af@afmug.com>> wrote:
Isn't the bandwidth test built into Mikrotik a variant of iperf?
bp
On 10/21/2014 7:00 PM, Keefe John via Af wrote:
We found speedtest.net <http://speedtest.net> to be very
unreliable even though we have a server hosted in our datacenter.
We also run speedtest mini and it is not very reliable, especially
for 25mbps or greater. Iperf, however, works every time.
On 10/21/2014 7:09 PM, Jon Auer via Af wrote:
FWIW at one time we had three peers (no open internet/upstream
to worry about) running speedtest.net <http://speedtest.net>
servers and still saw a lot of variation in performance.
The server on a network run by a world-famous optimization
nerd reported much higher speeds and more consistent results
than the one run by the fellow WISP or the one run by a IT
consultant...
On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 5:36 PM, Mike Hammett via Af
<af@afmug.com <mailto:af@afmug.com>> wrote:
If your upstreams suck, your customer's speedtests should
reflect that.... and be addressed.
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*From: *"Timothy D. McNabb via Af" <af@afmug.com
<mailto:af@afmug.com>>
*To: *af@afmug.com <mailto:af@afmug.com>
*Sent: *Tuesday, October 21, 2014 5:15:06 PM
*Subject: *Re: [AFMUG] Speedtest replacements?
I hate to necro an old thread, but has anyone devised an
alternative? We’re looking at the same dilemma of our own
speedtest. It’s always been nice to have the Ookla speedtest
not just in terms of performance, but the ability to reference
actual results as well (since customers sometimes misinterpret
the results). From the other speedtests mentioned
(speedtest.io <http://speedtest.io> and openspeedtest) it
appears that neither are something you can install on a local
machine. Our personal preference is so customers can see what
their speeds are within our control (the speedtest server is
right next to our upstreams).
-Tim
*From:*Af [mailto:af-bounces+tim
<mailto:af-bounces%2Btim>=velociter....@afmug.com
<mailto:velociter....@afmug.com>] *On Behalf Of *Tushar Patel
via Af
*Sent:* Tuesday, September 23, 2014 7:55 PM
*To:* af@afmug.com <mailto:af@afmug.com>
*Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] Speedtest replacements?
May be we will try that. But as a speedtest product from
ookla, I am surprised there isn't really good competing
product in the market. One would think there should be market
for such product. No wonder they are raising the price.
Tushar
On Sep 23, 2014, at 8:23 PM, "Forrest Christian (List Account)
via Af" <af@afmug.com <mailto:af@afmug.com>> wrote:
Why not just host a speedtest.net <http://speedtest.net>
server and have your customers test to it?
-forrest
On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 8:34 AM, Darren Shea via Af
<af@afmug.com <mailto:af@afmug.com>> wrote:
We currently host our own speedtest server using Ookla's
speedtest technology, but Ookla is discontinuing the
version we run, and
the licensing fees for the new version are very steep. I'm
looking at alternatives, such as OpenSpeedTest and
speed.io <http://speed.io>, but would
like to get some feedback on these if anyone is using them.
We once tried using Brandon Checkett's Fancy Speed Test,
but the results display was not really in line with what
we wanted.
Does anyone hosting their own, non-Ookla, speedtest server
have some success stories or horror stories about
particular packages?
Thank you,
Darren
