Forbes, Besides the usual things to look for, please keep in mind that most of the SpeedTest Servers out their are 'capped' and not really designed to test for 100meg x 100meg connections. The best way to test it is to use 'Bandwidth Tester' tool (Mikrotik's have one built in), and there are others you can find / download on the net. (Jperf ?)
Keep in mind, you need beefy systems to be able to generate, sustained amount of 100meg bandwidth, for testing. Regards Faisal Imtiaz Snappy Internet & Telecom On 10/25/2010 4:37 PM, Forbes Mercy wrote: > I just took delivery on a 100MB Fiber connection from Charter, we're > perplexed at the variable speed tests we are getting. Charter's varies > from 25 to 50MB down, speedtest.net goes to about 20-25MB down and 30 > up, speakeasy doesn't go above 20MB. Charter says the cap is off on our > 100MB so it should be showing that. > > The anatomy of our network is fiber to our head-end, goes to a Charter > switch then to our Cisco 2811, then to a gig netgear switch. We're > doing our speed tests on a standard browser (Firefox) in a Windows 2003 > box that has a 10/100 ethernet (about 8 feet) to the gig switch. I'm > debating if the 2811 is hefty enough to handle the 100MB, any ideas? > > Thanks, > Forbes > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > WISPA Wants You! Join today! > http://signup.wispa.org/ > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org > > Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
