Re: Proving Gig Speed

2018-07-16 Thread Michael Thomas
Thanks, Jason. While I might have idle curiosity of how well my link performs when I first get it, beyond that the only time I care is when I or somebody else in the house starts screaming "THE INTERTOOBZ R SLOWZ!@!". I just had this happen to me the other night as I trying to watch

Re: Proving Gig Speed

2018-07-16 Thread James R Cutler
> On Jul 16, 2018, at 4:31 PM, Carlos Alcantar wrote: > > It's a complete rabbit hole different hardware with different browsers give > different readings, even not having your laptop plugged into power can cause > a change in results due to dropping cpu to power save. The only reliable >

Re: Proving Gig Speed

2018-07-16 Thread Jon Meek
On Mon, Jul 16, 2018 at 2:00 PM Chris Gross wrote: > I'm curious what people here have found as a good standard for providing > solid speedtest results to customers. All our techs have Dell laptops of > various models, but we always hit 100% CPU when doing a Ookla speedtest for > a server we

Re: Proving Gig Speed

2018-07-16 Thread Carlos Alcantar
It's a complete rabbit hole different hardware with different browsers give different readings, even not having your laptop plugged into power can cause a change in results due to dropping cpu to power save. The only reliable solution we found for field techs was the exfo ex1.Still talks

Re: Proving Gig Speed

2018-07-16 Thread Livingood, Jason
I recently talked at the IRTF on this subject and followed up with a blog post at https://blog.apnic.net/2018/06/21/measurement-challenges-in-the-gigabit-era/. There's also an open source speed test project you may want to consider at https://github.com/Comcast/Speed-testJS. Jason On

RE: Proving Gig Speed

2018-07-16 Thread Chris Gross
Winner winner chicken dinner. I forgot to pull "Antivirus is at fault" card from my deck. 250/675 with it installed, 920/920 when removed so now I get to pass the the issue onwards. Thanks everyone for your replies and the responses for the adolfintel/speedtest github, I'll definitely look at

Re: Proving Gig Speed

2018-07-16 Thread Ben Cannon
Second the recommendation for the downloadable ookla speedtest desktop app. -Ben > On Jul 16, 2018, at 11:30 AM, Mike Hammett wrote: > > Ookla does have a client that you can install in various OSes to remove > browser issues. > > > > - > Mike Hammett > Intelligent Computing

Re: Proving Gig Speed

2018-07-16 Thread Mike Hammett
Ookla does have a client that you can install in various OSes to remove browser issues. - Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com Midwest-IX http://www.midwest-ix.com - Original Message - From: "Chris Gross" To: "North American Network

Re: Proving Gig Speed

2018-07-16 Thread Max Tulyev
Hi! Here I have http://www.speedtest.net/result/7475546550 from my notebook right now. It is i5-2540M CPU. First of all, NIC is much more important than CPU. Intel NIC can give 1Gbps easy, while Realtek or Broadcom probably never gives you more than ~300mbps. Linux times faster than Windows in

RE: Proving Gig Speed

2018-07-16 Thread Tyler Applebaum
I have this deployed for our customers, it works well. I have yet to hear any complaints of not being able to max out a connection. https://github.com/adolfintel/speedtest -Original Message- From: NANOG On Behalf Of Matt Erculiani Sent: Monday, July 16, 2018 11:17 AM To: Chris Gross

Re: Proving Gig Speed

2018-07-16 Thread Matt Erculiani
We use Iperf3 for customers that complain about throughput, it's relatively low overhead compared to the Ookla HTML5 client. Same scenario as you, we have the tech hook up their laptop to the customer's drop and perform testing. I suspect your antivirus may be attempting to perform real-time

Re: Proving Gig Speed

2018-07-16 Thread Jared Mauch
On Mon, Jul 16, 2018 at 01:02:28PM -0500, Dan White wrote: > We've found that running windows in safe mode produces better results with > Ookla. And MACs usually do better as well. We've gotten >900mb/s with those > two approaches. I've seen engineers even forget to account for differing

Re: Proving Gig Speed

2018-07-16 Thread Matthew Crocker
I'm on a Mac and launch 40 speedtests at the same time and monitor interface bandwidth #!/bin/bash for i in `./speedtest-cli --list | cut -f1 -d')' | head -n 40`; do ./speedtest-cli --server $i & done I've been able to saturate 10G links with this method -Matt -- Matthew Crocker

Re: Proving Gig Speed

2018-07-16 Thread Dan White
We've found that running windows in safe mode produces better results with Ookla. And MACs usually do better as well. We've gotten >900mb/s with those two approaches. On 07/16/18 17:58 +, Chris Gross wrote: I'm curious what people here have found as a good standard for providing solid

Proving Gig Speed

2018-07-16 Thread Chris Gross
I'm curious what people here have found as a good standard for providing solid speedtest results to customers. All our techs have Dell laptops of various models, but we always hit 100% CPU when doing a Ookla speedtest for a server we have on site. So then if you have a customer paying for 600M

Re: (perhaps off topic, but) Microwave Towers

2018-07-16 Thread Michael Crapse
Microwave radios are the things that break the mold of the incorrect assumption that just because it doesn't make sense to put up more wires to a house you can't have more than one provider. Considering that we've deployed a few wireless systems with less latency, jitter, and downtime than the

Re: (perhaps off topic, but) Microwave Towers

2018-07-16 Thread Mike Hammett
No idea where you were at, but lots of big companies have done microwave and lots of new companies do microwave. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MCI_Communications MCI was founded as Microwave Communications, Inc. on October 3, 1963 with John D. Goeken being named the company's first

Re: deploying RPKI based Origin Validation

2018-07-16 Thread Job Snijders
On Sat, Jul 14, 2018 at 11:03:16AM +0200, Mark Tinka wrote: > On 14/Jul/18 09:11, Baldur Norddahl wrote: > > In the RIPE part of the world there is no excuse for not getting > > RPKI correct because RIPE made it so easy. Perhaps the industry > > could agree on enabling RPKI validation on all

Re: Bogon prefix c0f:f618::/32 announced via Cogent

2018-07-16 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Sat, Jul 14, 2018 at 08:18:25AM +0800, Siyuan Miao wrote a message of 27 lines which said: > c0f:f618::/32 originated from AS327814 is announcing via Cogent for several > weeks. Apparently withdrawn 2018-07-14 around 16:00:00 UTC. Your mail to NANOG was effective :-)

Re: Akamai contact

2018-07-16 Thread Jared Mauch
Replied offlist. Jared Mauch > On Jul 15, 2018, at 3:34 PM, Eric Germann wrote: > > Now that I’ve learned Delta is an airline, runs hotels, and makes faucets, > amongst other things, if there is an Akamai [Company that deploys CDN’s and > other things] contact who could contact me off list

Re: Linux BNG

2018-07-16 Thread Stefan Bethke
Am 14.07.2018 um 14:13 schrieb Baldur Norddahl : > > I am considering writing a small program or kernel module. This would create > two TAP devices (tap0 and tap1). Traffic received on tap0 with VLAN tagging, > will be stripped of VLAN tagging and delivered on tap1. Traffic received on > tap1

Re: (perhaps off topic, but) Microwave Towers

2018-07-16 Thread Robert DeVita
We had a ton of point to point wireless customers at 120E Van Buren out to South Mountain. About 10 years ago there was a significant shortage of fiber outside of Phoenix. You choices were SRP and Cox for the most part and SRP at that time had a very limited fiber network. They were actually

Akamai contact

2018-07-16 Thread Eric Germann
Now that I’ve learned Delta is an airline, runs hotels, and makes faucets, amongst other things, if there is an Akamai [Company that deploys CDN’s and other things] contact who could contact me off list re: continuing to troubleshoot a Delta Airlines [amongst other sites] issue that would be

Gmail admin

2018-07-16 Thread Brian
Is there a gmail admin that can contact me offlist? Thanks much.

Bogon prefix c0f:f618::/32 announced via Cogent

2018-07-16 Thread Siyuan Miao
Hi, c0f:f618::/32 originated from AS327814 is announcing via Cogent for several weeks. I've tried to contact Cogent and AS327814 but didn't receive any reply. Tue Jul 10 17:52:48.602 UTC BGP routing table entry for c0f:f618::/32 Versions: Process bRIB/RIB SendTblVer Speaker

Re: Linux BNG

2018-07-16 Thread Mark Tinka
On 14/Jul/18 20:29, t...@wicks.co.nz wrote: > My biggest issue with the vendor offerings is that they are not making their > virtual offerings (VMX, VSR) attractive enough pricing wise at the small > scale, we have successful virtual Juniper and Nokia BNG's in production but > pricing wise

Re: NTT engineer in the wings?

2018-07-16 Thread Randy Bush
> The IP NOC is unable to locate anyone because it’s Sunday you can't be talking about ntt noc. ntt noc is aggressively responsive. randy

Re: NTT engineer in the wings?

2018-07-16 Thread Saku Ytti
Hey Jason, Can you provide me ticket number (VNOC), time you called and who you spoke with? We have 24/7 NOC, and 24/7 escalation. Sunday is like every other day, this is highly atypical and I apologise for it. You can contact me off-list. Thanks! On Mon, 16 Jul 2018 at 01:16, JASON BOTHE via