RE: Keynote/Boardwatch Internet Backbone Index A better test!!!

["Wheeler, Jesse W" <jesse_wheeler () reyrey com>]

So are we all going to all resort to name calling now to get our points
across?
Every time you deal with a dynamic object such as the Internet, where
conditions
can change on a minute by minute basis, benchmark results are close to
useless.

The only thing that benchmarks on a dynamic object can do is give you a
rough
estimate of the actual throughput..  The variables to be tested in
something massive
as the Internet and too numerous to count..

SO, lets get on with it :)


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Jesse W. Wheeler
Quality Assurance Analyst

Reynolds & Reynolds
Healthcare Systems Division
Email: Jesse_Wheeler () reyrey com 
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> From:  Jack Rickard[SMTP:jack.rickard () boardwatch com]
> Sent:  Friday, June 27, 1997 2:00 PM
> To:    Ben Black; nanog () merit edu
> Subject:       Re: Keynote/Boardwatch Internet Backbone Index A better test!!!
>
> I'm not a marketing droid.  But only a moron would think that overall
> performance would NOT affect the download of a web page, which is
> essentially what you are attempting to say.
>
> There are certainly other ways to do it.  Approximately Internet User
> Population raised to Internet User Population worth.
>
> Jack RIckard
>
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> > From: Ben Black <black () zen cypher net>
> > To: Craig A. Huegen <c-huegen () quadrunner com>
> > Cc: Jack Rickard <jack.rickard () boardwatch com>; Peter Cole
> <Peter.Cole () telescan com>; nanog () merit edu; marketing () keynote com
> > Subject: Re: Keynote/Boardwatch Internet Backbone Index A better test!!!
> > Date: Friday, June 27, 1997 2:28 PM
> >
> > for an exmple of somewhat more complete and better designed benchmarks of
>
> > this type:
> >
> > http://www.inversenet.com/about/backgrounder.html#2
> >
> > note that they understand the numerous factors that contribute to overall
>
> > performance.  only a marketing droid could think downloading 50k worth of
>
> > web pages is somehow an indicator of overall performance.
> >
> >
> > b3n