[AusNOG] International traffic speeds

[Paul Brooks]

Which metric are you interested in testing - aggregate throughput? latency? jitter? packet-loss?
Test method vary depending on what you are measuring.
If its throughput you want to test, what rough range of capacity are you looking to test - tens, hundreds, or thousands of Mbps? 
Methods vary depending on the scale of the result you are looking for.

While its tempting to just download a large file and time it, in most cases a simple HTTP or FTP transfer will not give you a meaningful result.


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On 23/07/2013 9:21 PM, Andrew Yager wrote:
> Hi All,
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> Looking for a convincing way to get some concept of the "real" international speeds we are getting on our network that doesn't involve transit provider FUD.
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> Does anyone have any good suggestions of good ways to test such things in ways that have reliable speed and coverage? (Particularly interested in testing PIPE and Vocus in case anyone was wondering...)
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> Thanks,
> Andrew
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