Re: [nznog] Comcom/Samknows broadband testing from a different perspective

2018-09-26 Thread brianparsons
OpenWRT/LEDE binary, Just shell on.. opkg update, -i what you need..., netstat -antop | grep EST this will surprise you, dest will surprise you more then I� put in the green wheely.� On the WAN link you may see lots of src privates indicating typical dinky rtr/fw nat not coping similarly actu

Re: [nznog] Comcom/Samknows broadband testing from a different perspective

2018-09-26 Thread Peter Lambrechtsen
There is a Geekzone thread that I kicked off when I attended the Commerce Commission presentation about Samknows and got to meet Sam. https://www.geekzone.co.nz/forums.asp?forumid=49&topicid=237852 I've done a bit of analysis on the traffic but haven't dug too deep yet as I didn't want to bust op

Re: [nznog] Comcom/Samknows broadband testing from a different perspective

2018-09-26 Thread Brian Cole
Acknowledged with thanks, Brian On Thu, 27 Sep 2018 at 12:58 PM, Nathan Ward wrote: > Hi Brian, > > You should call their support if you think there’s something going on > that’s impacting your connection. > > They will detect if your connection is in use and doing more than (I > think) 64kbit/

Re: [nznog] Comcom/Samknows broadband testing from a different perspective

2018-09-26 Thread Nathan Ward
Hi Brian, You should call their support if you think there’s something going on that’s impacting your connection. They will detect if your connection is in use and doing more than (I think) 64kbit/s in the last 30s or something, and won’t run the tests. They have some clever stuff to detect if

Re: [nznog] Comcom/Samknows broadband testing from a different perspective

2018-09-26 Thread Bill
I’ve had a SamKnows node since inception. They only ever use a % of your connection, however they only know your connection speed if you have correctly filled out your profile on their site. Sent from my iPhone > On 27/09/2018, at 11:38 AM, Brian Cole wrote: > > Hi all, > > Longtime liste

Re: [nznog] Comcom/Samknows broadband testing from a different perspective

2018-09-26 Thread Brian Cole
Hi all, Longtime listener; first time caller. I signed up to SamKnows (partly out of curiosity and partly so I can have hard data about my connection that I pay for) at home. Over the last week my connection has gone from slightly adequate with the occasional drop out to a slow connection with r