On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 1:29 PM, Jeff Richmond <jeff.richm...@gmail.com> wrote: > Mike, nothing is perfect, so let's just start with that. What the FCC has > done to measure this is to partner with Sam Knows and then have friendly DSL > subs for the participating telcos to run modified CPE firmware to test > against their servers. We have been collecting data for this for the past > couple of months, actually. More can be found here: > > http://www.samknows.com/broadband/fcc_and_samknows
note that samknows has some deficiencies in their platform, at least: o no ip v6 support o the home-routers/gateways/aps randomly reboot with completely non-functional setups their customer support ... isn't really available, ever. > While even that I have issues with, it certainly is better than hitting that > speedtest site where anything at all problematic on the customer LAN side of > the CPE can cause erroneous results. > the above aside, how about using the network test suite from Mlabs? <http://www.measurementlab.net/measurement-lab-tools> Or ask the swedish folk who've deployed 'speedtest' gear for the swedish isp/users to tst against? (common test infrastructure). -chris
