Ok. But to the layperson, that is still not a meaningful test of Google's capacity.
Say I'm a 'layperson' residential customer of an ISP with 1G service. I run this speedtest, and I only get 500M to Google. 1. That may still be plenty of capacity for what the user WANTS to do, but they're a layperson. They don't know that. 2. The reason the test peaked at 500M may have nothing to do with Google's capacity. The ISP may have a bottleneck in their network. Perhaps said ISP reaches Google via transit, and that upstream has a capacity issue somewhere. As Jared said, having strategically placed iperf endpoints for knowledgeable folks to investigate possible capacity issues is nice to have, but a ASN specific speedtest for end user diagnosis seems pretty pointless. (Unless the goal is to direct support tickets to that specific ASN instead of yourself. :) ) On Tue, Jan 3, 2023 at 10:31 AM Mike Hammett <na...@ics-il.net> wrote: > Is there enough available capacity for {insert whatever the customer is > trying to do here}. > > Can they run 4 YouTubeTV streams or can they run 20? > Can they download a file at 5 megabits/s or 15 gigabits/s? > > There's not a problem to be solved, but information of a variety of types > to be gleaned for a variety of purposes. > > > > ----- > Mike Hammett > Intelligent Computing Solutions <http://www.ics-il.com/> > <https://www.facebook.com/ICSIL> > <https://plus.google.com/+IntelligentComputingSolutionsDeKalb> > <https://www.linkedin.com/company/intelligent-computing-solutions> > <https://twitter.com/ICSIL> > Midwest Internet Exchange <http://www.midwest-ix.com/> > <https://www.facebook.com/mdwestix> > <https://www.linkedin.com/company/midwest-internet-exchange> > <https://twitter.com/mdwestix> > The Brothers WISP <http://www.thebrotherswisp.com/> > <https://www.facebook.com/thebrotherswisp> > <https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXSdfxQv7SpoRQYNyLwntZg> > ------------------------------ > *From: *"Tom Beecher" <beec...@beecher.cc> > *To: *"Mike Hammett" <na...@ics-il.net> > *Cc: *"NANOG" <nanog@nanog.org> > *Sent: *Tuesday, January 3, 2023 9:07:57 AM > *Subject: *Re: Google Speed Test > > Are you saying that congestion doesn't exist? >> > > Not sure how you took that from what I said. No, I am not. > > I am saying your request for a 'layperson' to run a speed test doesn't > seem particularly useful to identify that anyways. It's not a first order > tool. > > What is the problem you are trying to solve for? > > > > On Tue, Jan 3, 2023 at 9:55 AM Mike Hammett <na...@ics-il.net> wrote: > >> Are you saying that congestion doesn't exist? >> >> >> >> ----- >> Mike Hammett >> Intelligent Computing Solutions <http://www.ics-il.com/> >> <https://www.facebook.com/ICSIL> >> <https://plus.google.com/+IntelligentComputingSolutionsDeKalb> >> <https://www.linkedin.com/company/intelligent-computing-solutions> >> <https://twitter.com/ICSIL> >> Midwest Internet Exchange <http://www.midwest-ix.com/> >> <https://www.facebook.com/mdwestix> >> <https://www.linkedin.com/company/midwest-internet-exchange> >> <https://twitter.com/mdwestix> >> The Brothers WISP <http://www.thebrotherswisp.com/> >> <https://www.facebook.com/thebrotherswisp> >> <https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXSdfxQv7SpoRQYNyLwntZg> >> ------------------------------ >> *From: *"Tom Beecher" <beec...@beecher.cc> >> *To: *"Mike Hammett" <na...@ics-il.net> >> *Cc: *"NANOG" <nanog@nanog.org> >> *Sent: *Tuesday, January 3, 2023 8:50:35 AM >> *Subject: *Re: Google Speed Test >> >> Does AS15169 have a speed test? It would be nice to gauge the capacity to >>> a particular network that's something laypeople could do. >>> >> >> 15169 has enough capacity to external networks that a speed test from a >> random 'layperson' is never going to give you any meaningful information. >> >> On Wed, Dec 28, 2022 at 11:42 AM Mike Hammett <na...@ics-il.net> wrote: >> >>> Does AS15169 have a speed test? It would be nice to gauge the capacity >>> to a particular network that's something laypeople could do. I could host >>> something in GCP myself, but cloud is expensive. >>> >>> ----- >>> Mike Hammett >>> [ http://www.ics-il.com/ | Intelligent Computing Solutions ] >>> [ https://www.facebook.com/ICSIL ] [ >>> https://plus.google.com/+IntelligentComputingSolutionsDeKalb ] [ >>> https://www.linkedin.com/company/intelligent-computing-solutions ] [ >>> https://twitter.com/ICSIL ] >>> [ http://www.midwest-ix.com/ | Midwest Internet Exchange ] >>> [ https://www.facebook.com/mdwestix ] [ >>> https://www.linkedin.com/company/midwest-internet-exchange ] [ >>> https://twitter.com/mdwestix ] >>> [ http://www.thebrotherswisp.com/ | The Brothers WISP ] >>> [ https://www.facebook.com/thebrotherswisp ] [ >>> https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXSdfxQv7SpoRQYNyLwntZg ] >>> >> >> >