Edu versus Speakeasy Speedtest

[jeffnanog at hvnc.net (Jeff)]

On 4/30/10 3:15 AM, Steve Bertrand wrote:
>
> Your observation is disturbingly bleak... do you have a recommendation?
>
> ...perhaps a site with good bandwidth and a cluster of iperf(1) boxes
> available? :)

There are better tools than a simple iperf server:

http://psps.perfsonar.net/toolkit/

There are many perfsonar sites to choose from in I2/NLR land. Most 
gigapops and I2 networks run at least one.

The problem is the Faculty^Wusers are smart, but not experienced in 
networking, so they buy into the marketing and eye candy of the speed 
dials on the Speakeasy and assorted speed testing tool sites. They see 
low numbers and then are difficult to convince that the devil is in the 
details. (which is odd, because that's what they do as scientists.)

They also typically don't see the $$$$ spent on i2/nlr connections vs 
the $ spent on commodity internet connections. ;)

Jeff