[GRLUG] Newbie Network Quality Question

[Bob Kline]

I use this,  speakeasy.net/speedtest, and
Comcast's own,  http://speedtest.comcast.net/,
to see if there's any consistency between the
three.  I mostly use the Washington, DC, test
point.

Last weekend my service, Comcast, was
weird.  I was getting very low speed results,
relative to nominal.  It's back to "normal" now,
but the episode did last much of the weekend.

I was getting a few megabits down, which
is a small fraction of what I was paying for.

Don't even thing of using different test
points for your tests, because those vary
widely too.

For what it's wroth, Comcast has test
locations in at least Chicago, Detroit,
and DC.  You'd expect those would be
kept running well, if only for advertising
purposes.  But over the weekend the
results were crummy, so something was
indeed going on in my experience.

   -- Bob


On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 5:36 PM, L. V. Lammert <lvl at omnitec.net> wrote:

> On Tue, 29 Jan 2013, Ben DeMott wrote:
>
> > Run a ping with larger packet sizes.  Ping's usually go fine even when
> > there are damaged network cables.  One time drove myself nuts and all it
> > was was a bad 5e cable.  Ping with 4096 byte payload (maximum) would
> > typically fail - and thats when I knew it was a problem with sustained
> data
> > transer.
> >
> Is there something wrong with speedtest.net??
>
>         Lee
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