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

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 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 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 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 brianparsons
performance of your home router. good luck - regards brian Original Message Subject: Re: [nznog] Comcom/Samknows broadband testing from a different perspective From: "Peter Lambrechtsen" Date: Thu, September 27, 2018 4:37 pm T

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

2018-09-27 Thread Nathan Ward
> On 28/09/2018, at 8:49 AM, Jason Orchard wrote: > > Note: > The Samknows device is the only (Connection) plugged into this GPON interface. > There is other user traffic been generated on this port other than samknows > device. Do you mean “no other” ? Interesting results. Can you get packet

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

2018-09-27 Thread sam webber
gt;> >> [image: cid:image002.png@01D45702.A09DE340] >> >> >> >> >> >> *Jason Orchard* >> >> Senior Network Engineer | Enable Networks Limited >> >> DDI +64 3 741 5283 >> >> M+64 27 666 8468 >> >> www.ena

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

2018-09-27 Thread Mike Taylor
d:image004.jpg@01D3B097.6E668880 > >   > > *From:* nznog-boun...@list.waikato.ac.nz > <mailto:nznog-boun...@list.waikato.ac.nz> > <mailto:nznog-boun...@list.waikato.ac.nz>> *On Behalf Of > *brianpars...@subpico.com <mailto:brianpars...@sub

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

2018-09-28 Thread Dylan Hall
; >> >> [image: cid:image002.png@01D45702.A09DE340] >> >> >> >> >> >> *Jason Orchard* >> >> Senior Network Engineer | Enable Networks Limited >> >> DDI +64 3 741 5283 >> >> M+64 27 666 8468 >> >> www.

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

2018-10-02 Thread Jason Orchard
rchard Cc: nznog@list.waikato.ac.nz Subject: Re: [nznog] Comcom/Samknows broadband testing from a different perspective Bringing this conversation back on list, Jason is accessing the M-Lab servers via Spark. I would expect the performance through Spark to be poorer as they don't peer in NZ. Inst