Re: FCC releases Internet speed test tool

2010-03-12 Thread Sean Donelan

On Fri, 12 Mar 2010, Steven Bellovin wrote:
What they really need is something more or less like an accurate zip 
code, I suspect.  They want to find out what real "broadband" speeds are 
in different parts of the country.  Putting in a fake address renders 
your data useless.


The FCC used to collect the data by zip code; but a few years ago Congress 
told the FCC that measuring broadband availability by zip code wasn't good 
enough. ZIP code boundaries tend to vary in size, and cross political 
jurisdictions.  Cable system and Central Office wire areas also tend to

vary in size and cross political jurisdictions, so things won't match up
exactly.

Now I believe FCC tries to collect broadband data by census tract.  The 
problem is most people don't know what census tract they are in. So they 
are probably trying to figure out the census tract based on the postal 
address entered.


The Federal Register notice was published at
http://edocket.access.gpo.gov/2009/E9-31009.htm



Re: FCC releases Internet speed test tool

2010-03-12 Thread Fred Baker
On Mar 12, 2010, at 5:43 AM, Marshall Eubanks wrote:
> http://www.broadband.gov/


I'm listening to all this and thinking through the questions the FCC might be 
asking. I'm also trying to do a somewhat-controlled test, which I'll give you 
the first several samples of. See attached.

I picked up your note at ~7:10 PST this morning and set up some timed commands 
to remind myself to try this out once an hour at a few minutes before my 
various meetings start. I'm testing speakeasy against speedtest against the two 
broadband.gov engines, plus pingtest just for fun. I am of course at work 
today, woking from home.

For the record, I am a Cox Business subscriber, and my contract is 2 MBPS down 
and 384 KBPS up. That implies I'm not going see tens of MBPS, and I would be 
surprised if the numbers were significantly different than advertised as I am 
by definition paying more money for less service. Some of the tests will run in 
parallel with my daily workload, and I'll try to keep that straight. What may 
impinge is mail downloads, which happen under the hood and aren't necessarily 
visible at the time I initiate a test.

An observation on the various comments that "going to a test service operated 
somewhere other than my POP is a dumb idea": it depends on what you're 
measuring. If you're measuring, as I imagine those commentators are, what bit 
rate is available on the link between the residential subscriber and the ISP 
and therefore whether the contract is being met, the point is well taken. If 
the point is "what is a reasonable expectation of bandwidth when accessing 
various things on the Internet", the ISP's internal connectivity, connectivity 
to its upstream, and to its peers is also relevant - and from an FCC Net 
Neutrality perspective pretty important. A fairly common report several years 
ago was that on DSL networks one might get a high rate through the very last 
mile but often got mere tens of KBPS through the back end network, and DSL 
marketing made the same comment about Cable Modem networks. When I buy a 
certain rate from an ISP, the point is not to talk with the ISP at that rate; 
the point is to be able to do what I do, such as running a VPN across  and 
 to/from , or access content on the web.

Another observation: when a subscriber buys a bit rate, the bit rate includes 
IP headers, link layer overhead, etc. If I use FTP to test my rate, it is 
measuring the rate at which TCP can deliver user data, which is to say that it 
omits the TCP, IP, and link layer overheads, which are on the order of 3-4% of 
the bandwidth. If I were running one of these tests over a circuit switch link 
such as a T-1, it would not measure that it was delivering 1.544 MBPS plus or 
minus 75 ppm; it would measure somewhat less considering both physical layer 
overheads (2/193 gets lost out of a T-1 frame) and TCP/IP overheads.

What I have seen so far this morning is that speakeasy, speedtest, and the two 
broadband.gov sites come up with about the same numbers, modulo obvious issues 
of being different tests at slightly different times. The one difference there 
is with broadband.gov/MLAB: it seems to measure my upload rate at about half of 
contract rate the first time I test it, and then measure something 
approximating the contract if I repeat the test. No idea what that really means 
- if it randomly was high and low I could argue that it is a capacity-at-tester 
or "did POP download email?" issue, but since it always the first test that is 
low it suggests something relevant to the sequence.



Re: FCC releases Internet speed test tool

2010-03-12 Thread Antonio Querubin

On Fri, 12 Mar 2010, John S. Quarterman wrote:


Anybody who wants to do it better, here's your chance:

 https://www.fbo.gov/utils/view?id=cb712eb3ef384ebe25bfbf6b0a5dfa16


Hmm, although it lists a number of FAR clauses but it seems none of them 
reference the new requirements for IPv6:


http://edocket.access.gpo.gov/2009/E9-28931.htm

Antonio Querubin
808-545-5282 x3003
e-mail/xmpp:  t...@lava.net



Re: FCC releases Internet speed test tool

2010-03-12 Thread Larry Sheldon
On 3/12/2010 13:22, Steven Bellovin wrote:
> 
> On Mar 12, 2010, at 1:57 PM, Scott Weeks wrote:
> 
>> 
>> 
>> --- t...@americafree.tv wrote: From: Marshall Eubanks
>> 
>> 
>> This might be useful to some. Article : 
>> http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE62B08720100312
>> 
>> site :http://www.broadband.gov/
>> 
>> It requires giving your address. 
>> ---
>> 
>> 
>> Nah, no real address needed.  Just use 123 elm street abbeville
>> alabama 36310.  That's the first zip code I found on a site...
>> ;-)
> 
> What they really need is something more or less like an accurate zip
> code, I suspect.  They want to find out what real "broadband" speeds
> are in different parts of the country.  Putting in a fake address
> renders your data useless.  One can ask why they aren't using IP
> geolocation; I suspect it's because it's not accurate enough.  Your
> address?  They may be interested in how many cable-feet you are from
> a CO, for DSL linkes.
> 
> Now -- under the Privacy Act, if they're collecting addresses I
> believe they had to do a Privacy Impact Assessment.  Since I can't
> imagine why it would be classified, it should be publicly available.
> I don't see it, but I don't have time today to look for it.

They are supposed to pay their income taxes too.

Color me paranoid if you like, but I worry that if you play their game
and DON'T answer the questions accurately and honestly, you have set
yourself up for a bad ride for lying to an Official Government Agency.

-- 
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Re: FCC releases Internet speed test tool

2010-03-12 Thread Scott Weeks


--- s...@cs.columbia.edu wrote:
From: Steven Bellovin 
On Mar 12, 2010, at 1:57 PM, Scott Weeks wrote:
 
> It requires giving your address.
> ---
> 
> Nah, no real address needed.  Just use 123 elm street abbeville alabama 
> 36310.  That's the first zip code I found on a site...  ;-)

Putting in a fake address renders your data useless.  

Now -- under the Privacy Act, if they're collecting addresses I believe they 
had to do a Privacy Impact Assessment.  
-


I don't like giving my address out to anyone that asks for it.  I just wanted 
to sniff the traffic and see what was going on.  I wasn't too concerned with 
being a valid data point.  Cmon, I believe you know some security stuff and why 
I might chose to do that... ;-)

scott

ps. there's a helluva delay going on on the list today...




Re: FCC releases Internet speed test tool

2010-03-12 Thread Nate Itkin
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On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 08:43:22AM -0500, Marshall Eubanks wrote:
> [ ... ]
> http://www.broadband.gov/

If you can't get there, check DNSSEC first  Lame server or bad signature:

Mar 12 08:57:57 mx1 named[18363]: no valid KEY resolving 
'www.broadband.gov/A/IN': 192.104.54.4#53

I'll send e-mail to dns-admin-at-fcc.gov, but that's probably a black
hole. If anyone has a contact at fcc.gov, please let them know.

Nate Itkin

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Re: FCC releases Internet speed test tool

2010-03-12 Thread Antonio Querubin

On Fri, 12 Mar 2010, John S. Quarterman wrote:


Anybody who wants to do it better, here's your chance:

 https://www.fbo.gov/utils/view?id=cb712eb3ef384ebe25bfbf6b0a5dfa16


Seems they'd be better off just gathering data from existing speedtest 
networks.  But speed isn't the only issue they should be looking at.  If 
the government really wants to make significant, long-term improvements to 
the national network infrastructure, it also needs to be encouraging 
deployment of multicast and IPv6 to the end-user.


Antonio Querubin
808-545-5282 x3003
e-mail/xmpp:  t...@lava.net



Re: FCC releases Internet speed test tool

2010-03-12 Thread Steven Bellovin

On Mar 12, 2010, at 1:57 PM, Scott Weeks wrote:

> 
> 
> --- t...@americafree.tv wrote:
> From: Marshall Eubanks 
> 
> This might be useful to some. Article :
> http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE62B08720100312
> 
> site :http://www.broadband.gov/
> 
> It requires giving your address.
> ---
> 
> 
> Nah, no real address needed.  Just use 123 elm street abbeville alabama 
> 36310.  That's the first zip code I found on a site...  ;-)

What they really need is something more or less like an accurate zip code, I 
suspect.  They want to find out what real "broadband" speeds are in different 
parts of the country.  Putting in a fake address renders your data useless.  
One can ask why they aren't using IP geolocation; I suspect it's because it's 
not accurate enough.  Your address?  They may be interested in how many 
cable-feet you are from a CO, for DSL linkes.

Now -- under the Privacy Act, if they're collecting addresses I believe they 
had to do a Privacy Impact Assessment.  Since I can't imagine why it would be 
classified, it should be publicly available.  I don't see it, but I don't have 
time today to look for it.

--Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb








Re: FCC releases Internet speed test tool

2010-03-12 Thread Antonio Querubin

On Fri, 12 Mar 2010, char...@knownelement.com wrote:


Does it work with IPv6?


Not by default as it seems the content server is IPv4 enabled only. I 
suppose the Ookla-based tool would work over IPv6 also if the content 
server was setup for IPv6.


Speedtest.net's tool works over IPv6 if the content server is IPv6 
enabled.


Broadbandreports.com's tool reportedly works over IPv6 if you enable Java 
to use IPv6 and the content server is IPv6 enabled.


Antonio Querubin
808-545-5282 x3003
e-mail/xmpp:  t...@lava.net



Re: FCC releases Internet speed test tool

2010-03-12 Thread Scott Weeks


--- t...@americafree.tv wrote:
From: Marshall Eubanks 

This might be useful to some. Article :
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE62B08720100312

site :http://www.broadband.gov/

It requires giving your address.
---


Nah, no real address needed.  Just use 123 elm street abbeville alabama 
36310.  That's the first zip code I found on a site...  ;-)

At least they're using NDT: 
Host: ndt.iupui.donar.measurement-lab.org:7123

scott



RE: FCC releases Internet speed test tool

2010-03-12 Thread Peter Kranz
There is definitely something very broken in the gov't version of the
speedtest.net application. It seems very BW constrained. I can get great
results to a variety of ookla sites via test points across the US, but the
government one is always horrible.

We host both a pingtest and speedtest.net site, and provided you give it
enough BW, it's reasonably accurate for connections up to around 50 Mbps..

Peter Kranz





Re: FCC releases Internet speed test tool

2010-03-12 Thread John S. Quarterman
Anybody who wants to do it better, here's your chance:

  https://www.fbo.gov/utils/view?id=cb712eb3ef384ebe25bfbf6b0a5dfa16

-jsq



Re: FCC releases Internet speed test tool

2010-03-12 Thread John S. Quarterman
> On 3/12/2010 11:26 AM, Scott Berkman wrote:
> So have other people noticed that the Ookla/Speedtest.net/Speakeasy
> Bandwidth test often comes up VERY short on upload bandwidth results for
> anything other than residential-grade asymmetrical services?

As we heard in Austin, residential (or at least end-user) systems
are the primary focus of the FCC's rule-making:

 http://riskman.typepad.com/peerflow/2010/02/nprm-diagram-2-scope-of-rules.html

-jsq



Re: FCC releases Internet speed test tool

2010-03-12 Thread Dan White

On 12/03/10 11:26 -0500, Scott Berkman wrote:

So have other people noticed that the Ookla/Speedtest.net/Speakeasy
Bandwidth test often comes up VERY short on upload bandwidth results for
anything other than residential-grade asymmetrical services?

We often get complaints from customers saying "I'm not getting the upload
bandwidth I'm paying for", and when we ask what they are using to determine
this, the answer is almost always either Speakeasy or Speedtest.net.

We certainly don't depend on or recommend these sites to customers (we have
our own internal tools and usually recommend FTP or iperf), but everyone who
deems themselves semi-knowledgeable seems to find their way there anyway.
Do these sites simply not have the downstream bandwidth to handle the upload
tests?  If that’s the case I'd really like to see the admins add a
disclaimer of some form directly to the site.


We decided to spend the money to install a local Ookla speed test
site a couple of years ago and have been happy with the decision:

1) Local customers who run the speed test get much more accurate readings
than with what we were previously using, which was either javascript based,
or java based. The Ookla software we're running is flash based, which a
very high number of our users already have installed.

2) It gets placed on the main speedtest.net map. When our customers go to
speedtest.net to test their speeds, the default test location they get is
our own site, and they get accurate results.

3) When customers from local competitors go to speedtest.net, they get
defaulted to our test location, and get less than accurate readings (since
they are not on our local network) and get artificially depressed results,
which is a positive for us.

On a side note, we've tried to sign up for Ookla's pingtest.net, but
haven't gotten any responses from them about it. Has anyone else had any
success signing up for it?

--
Dan White



Re: FCC releases Internet speed test tool

2010-03-12 Thread charles
Does it work with IPv6?


--Original Message--
From: Marshall Eubanks
To: nanog@nanog.org list
Subject: FCC releases Internet speed test tool
Sent: Mar 12, 2010 5:43 AM

This might be useful to some.

Article :

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE62B08720100312

site :

http://www.broadband.gov/

It requires giving your address.

Regards
Marshall



Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile



Re: FCC releases Internet speed test tool

2010-03-12 Thread Andrew Gallo
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On 3/12/2010 11:26 AM, Scott Berkman wrote:
> So have other people noticed that the Ookla/Speedtest.net/Speakeasy
> Bandwidth test often comes up VERY short on upload bandwidth results for
> anything other than residential-grade asymmetrical services?
> 
> We often get complaints from customers saying "I'm not getting the upload
> bandwidth I'm paying for", and when we ask what they are using to determine
> this, the answer is almost always either Speakeasy or Speedtest.net.
> 
> We certainly don't depend on or recommend these sites to customers (we have
> our own internal tools and usually recommend FTP or iperf), but everyone who
> deems themselves semi-knowledgeable seems to find their way there anyway.
> Do these sites simply not have the downstream bandwidth to handle the upload
> tests?  If that?s the case I'd really like to see the admins add a
> disclaimer of some form directly to the site.
> 
>   Thanks,
> 
> -Scott

I'm seeing big disparity between upload and download speeds.  I had the
same thought as to the testing platform expecting asymmetrical speeds
typical of a residential link.

Why didn't they go with NDT?



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Re: FCC releases Internet speed test tool

2010-03-12 Thread Robert Mathews (OSIA)

Scott Berkman wrote:
> So have other people noticed that the Ookla/Speedtest.net/Speakeasy
> Bandwidth test often comes up VERY short on upload bandwidth results for
> anything other than residential-grade asymmetrical services?

The question to consider are:  are JAVA based "speed" testers reliable? 
What are the caveats?

Nevertheless, they have - over time, become 'popular' among users, and
your average 'cable guy,' to at
least the first 2 tiers of service tech personnel at ISPs who are often
relegated to diagnosing why "grandma's"
Internet connection is slow

Best,
Robert.
--



Re: FCC releases Internet speed test tool

2010-03-12 Thread Jorge Amodio
There are obviously some variables, buffering or something out there
since download speeds do not seem to be very consistent running the
tools several times. I tested three times each with the two engines.

>From SATX, TWC/RR:

Ookla
Download Speed  24408 2849422662 Kbps
Upload Speed  483492493 Kbps
Latency18  18  18 ms
Jitter  222 ms

MLAB
Download Speed  168541763015780 Kbps
Upload Speed  487   493493 Kbps
Latency18 17  17 ms
Jitter  2   11 ms

Regards
Jorge



RE: FCC releases Internet speed test tool

2010-03-12 Thread Scott Berkman
So have other people noticed that the Ookla/Speedtest.net/Speakeasy
Bandwidth test often comes up VERY short on upload bandwidth results for
anything other than residential-grade asymmetrical services?

We often get complaints from customers saying "I'm not getting the upload
bandwidth I'm paying for", and when we ask what they are using to determine
this, the answer is almost always either Speakeasy or Speedtest.net.

We certainly don't depend on or recommend these sites to customers (we have
our own internal tools and usually recommend FTP or iperf), but everyone who
deems themselves semi-knowledgeable seems to find their way there anyway.
Do these sites simply not have the downstream bandwidth to handle the upload
tests?  If that’s the case I'd really like to see the admins add a
disclaimer of some form directly to the site.

Thanks,

-Scott

-Original Message-
From: Robert Mathews (OSIA) [mailto:math...@hawaii.edu] 
Sent: Friday, March 12, 2010 10:32 AM
To: North American Network Operators Group
Subject: Re: FCC releases Internet speed test tool

Joe Greco wrote:
> Correction: it _requires_ Java. It _asks_ for your address. It seems
> like it'd work fine if you gave it your neighbor's address. :-)
>
> I noted that I got wildly varying numbers on a laptop and an iPhone (there
> is also an iPhone app) and the iPhone app doesn't ask for an address. Both
> on the same wifi, and the numbers were off by a lot.
>
> ... JG

INSTEAD of using the FCC provided app, one 'could' always use OOKLA and
M-LAB directly.
The following links may prove to be more helpful to some.

http://demo.ookla.com/linequality/*and *
http://npad.iupui.lax01.measurement-lab.org:8000/   (Choose the closest
orig/term point to you from:
http://www.measurementlab.net/measurement-lab-tools#npad )

Both sites present varying granularity..  It goes without saying that
one should NOT send one's mother/grandmother to the NPAD site.  Pete
(Peter Löthberg) being the exception here.  O:-)

Best,
Robert.
--





Re: FCC releases Internet speed test tool

2010-03-12 Thread Robert Mathews (OSIA)
Joe Greco wrote:
> Correction: it _requires_ Java. It _asks_ for your address. It seems
> like it'd work fine if you gave it your neighbor's address. :-)
>
> I noted that I got wildly varying numbers on a laptop and an iPhone (there
> is also an iPhone app) and the iPhone app doesn't ask for an address. Both
> on the same wifi, and the numbers were off by a lot.
>
> ... JG

INSTEAD of using the FCC provided app, one 'could' always use OOKLA and
M-LAB directly.
The following links may prove to be more helpful to some.

http://demo.ookla.com/linequality/*and *
http://npad.iupui.lax01.measurement-lab.org:8000/   (Choose the closest
orig/term point to you from:
http://www.measurementlab.net/measurement-lab-tools#npad )

Both sites present varying granularity..  It goes without saying that
one should NOT send one's mother/grandmother to the NPAD site.  Pete
(Peter Löthberg) being the exception here.  O:-)

Best,
Robert.
--



Re: FCC releases Internet speed test tool

2010-03-12 Thread Fred Baker
I could imagine that the FCC sees it as a data source.

On Mar 12, 2010, at 6:34 AM, Sean Donelan wrote:

> On Fri, 12 Mar 2010, Joe Greco wrote:
>> I've gotten strange stuff each time I've tried their tests.  I
>> particularly like the factor of 10 difference in upload speeds.
> 
> The FCC is probably doing this because US providers generally don't release 
> actual bandwidth, speeds or latency numbers their consumer
> customers get.  Advertised numbers often don't mean anything.  If
> providers want to release better data, it might help the FCC understand
> the current environment.
> 
> Some US providers have published data for their business customer connections 
> and backbones.
> 
> 

http://www.ipinc.net/IPv4.GIF




Re: FCC releases Internet speed test tool

2010-03-12 Thread Larry Sheldon
On 3/12/2010 08:43, Joe Greco wrote:

> As such, the only real value I see the FCC tool offering is the potential
> for visibility into things such as DSL speed/distance limitations, but in
> order for that to be meaningful, you'd have to get a lot of people to run
> the test.
> 
> Which brings us back to ...  I'm not entirely sure that this is a useful
> strategy.

Look at the legislation under which it was implemented.

Look at the political agenda that appears to be obvious to me.

Look at the history of governments collection, "analysis", and use of data.

Now guess with me which findings have been pre-ordained and need only
some data to be filtered, adjusted (see weather data and NOAA's and
NASA's manipulation of it), and finally guess with me what regulation
will be justified by and mandated based on the findings.
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Re: FCC releases Internet speed test tool

2010-03-12 Thread Bret Clark

Joe Greco wrote:


I've gotten strange stuff each time I've tried their tests.  I
particularly like the factor of 10 difference in upload speeds.

... JG
  
Yeah...these test are algorithm based and rarely accurate! On our 
100Mbps Internet connection (which I know handles 100Mbps) best I could 
get is 10Mbps down and 14Mbps up.
Wish someone would come up with a much better mouse trap. The only test 
I've ever found to be fairly accurate is iperf or a simple FTP test.




Re: FCC releases Internet speed test tool

2010-03-12 Thread Joe Greco
> On Fri, 12 Mar 2010, Joe Greco wrote:
> > I've gotten strange stuff each time I've tried their tests.  I
> > particularly like the factor of 10 difference in upload speeds.
> 
> The FCC is probably doing this because US providers generally don't 
> release actual bandwidth, speeds or latency numbers their consumer
> customers get. 

I understand the point behind the test.

> Advertised numbers often don't mean anything.  If
> providers want to release better data, it might help the FCC understand
> the current environment.
> 
> Some US providers have published data for their business customer 
> connections and backbones.

I realize that a high level of participation could result in the FCC
gaining a more complete understanding of broadband penetration, and
specific areas where there are problems.

However, I have some reservations as to whether or not the FCC will be
able to get enough people to participate in this to be able to generate
a meaningful dataset.

Further, major inconsistencies such as what I just pointed out brings 
into question the validity of the test, and therefore the value.
I am not that concerned about the difference between 4Mbps and 5Mbps,
but when there's an order of magnitude difference involved...  on the
same connection...

I would guess, hopefully correctly, that Speedtest.net, Akamai, and
others already have a good handle on broadband speeds, and it seems to
me that the FCC could get a much more thorough picture of per-ISP
performance (which of course isn't street-level) simply by getting these
guys to summarize their results.

As such, the only real value I see the FCC tool offering is the potential
for visibility into things such as DSL speed/distance limitations, but in
order for that to be meaningful, you'd have to get a lot of people to run
the test.

Which brings us back to ...  I'm not entirely sure that this is a useful
strategy.

... JG
-- 
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Re: FCC releases Internet speed test tool

2010-03-12 Thread Sean Donelan

On Fri, 12 Mar 2010, Joe Greco wrote:

I've gotten strange stuff each time I've tried their tests.  I
particularly like the factor of 10 difference in upload speeds.


The FCC is probably doing this because US providers generally don't 
release actual bandwidth, speeds or latency numbers their consumer

customers get.  Advertised numbers often don't mean anything.  If
providers want to release better data, it might help the FCC understand
the current environment.

Some US providers have published data for their business customer 
connections and backbones.





Re: FCC releases Internet speed test tool

2010-03-12 Thread Joe Greco
> I noted that I got wildly varying numbers on a laptop and an iPhone (there
> is also an iPhone app) and the iPhone app doesn't ask for an address.  Both
> on the same wifi and connection, and the numbers were off by a lot.

And I meant to include examples, but fingers committed the message
before I could stop 'em.  Sorry.

PC/mLab:

Download speed: 4150kbps
Upload speed:   2364kpbs

PC/Ookla:

Download speed: 5044kbps
Upload speed:   1120Kbps

iPhone:

Download speed: 1.75Mbps
Upload speed:   0.23Mbps

I've gotten strange stuff each time I've tried their tests.  I
particularly like the factor of 10 difference in upload speeds.

... JG
-- 
Joe Greco - sol.net Network Services - Milwaukee, WI - http://www.sol.net
"We call it the 'one bite at the apple' rule. Give me one chance [and] then I
won't contact you again." - Direct Marketing Ass'n position on e-mail spam(CNN)
With 24 million small businesses in the US alone, that's way too many apples.



Re: FCC releases Internet speed test tool

2010-03-12 Thread Joe Greco
> This might be useful to some.
> 
> Article :
> 
> http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE62B08720100312
> 
> site :
> 
> http://www.broadband.gov/
> 
> It requires giving your address.

Correction:  it _requires_ Java.  It _asks_ for your address.  It seems
like it'd work fine if you gave it your neighbor's address.  :-)

I noted that I got wildly varying numbers on a laptop and an iPhone (there
is also an iPhone app) and the iPhone app doesn't ask for an address.  Both
on the same wifi, and the numbers were off by a lot.

... JG
-- 
Joe Greco - sol.net Network Services - Milwaukee, WI - http://www.sol.net
"We call it the 'one bite at the apple' rule. Give me one chance [and] then I
won't contact you again." - Direct Marketing Ass'n position on e-mail spam(CNN)
With 24 million small businesses in the US alone, that's way too many apples.



Re: FCC releases Internet speed test tool

2010-03-12 Thread Alan Clegg
Marshall Eubanks wrote:

> http://www.broadband.gov/

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Re: FCC releases Internet speed test tool

2010-03-12 Thread Randy Bush
> http://www.broadband.gov/

i suspect the bandwidth tests are a bit latency sensitive

> It requires giving your address.

did not really like a tokyo postal code

randy



Re: FCC releases Internet speed test tool

2010-03-12 Thread Jared Mauch
If you have fios please don't use this, if you have relatives with dial, make 
them use it :)

- Jared

On Mar 12, 2010, at 8:43 AM, Marshall Eubanks wrote:

> This might be useful to some.
> 
> Article :
> 
> http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE62B08720100312
> 
> site :
> 
> http://www.broadband.gov/
> 
> It requires giving your address.
> 
> Regards
> Marshall




FCC releases Internet speed test tool

2010-03-12 Thread Marshall Eubanks

This might be useful to some.

Article :

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE62B08720100312

site :

http://www.broadband.gov/

It requires giving your address.

Regards
Marshall