Re: help needed - state of california needs a benchmark

[Christopher Morrow <morrowc.lists () gmail com>]

On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 1:29 PM, Jeff Richmond <jeff.richmond () gmail com> wrote:
> Mike, nothing is perfect, so let's just start with that. What the FCC has done to measure this is to partner with Sam 
> Knows and then have friendly DSL subs for the participating telcos to run modified CPE firmware to test against their 
> servers. We have been collecting data for this for the past couple of months, actually. More can be found here:
>
> http://www.samknows.com/broadband/fcc_and_samknows

note that samknows has some deficiencies in their platform, at least:
  o no ip v6 support
  o the home-routers/gateways/aps randomly reboot with completely
non-functional setups

their customer support ... isn't really available, ever.

> While even that I have issues with, it certainly is better than hitting that speedtest site where anything at all 
> problematic on the customer LAN side of the CPE can cause erroneous results.

the above aside, how about using the network test suite from Mlabs?
  <http://www.measurementlab.net/measurement-lab-tools>

Or ask the swedish folk who've deployed 'speedtest' gear for the
swedish isp/users to tst against? (common test infrastructure).

-chris