[ale] isp questions

Derek Atkins derek at ihtfp.com
Tue Jun 16 10:57:31 EDT 2020


On Tue, June 16, 2020 10:45 am, Jim Kinney wrote:
> Most of the isp bandwidth testing is rigged. They know the test sites and
> have super hot, super fast pipes to those. I ran some tests using a known
> 10G pipe as supply with 10G data pump on it and my comcast commercial
> maxed at about 1/2 my rated download speed. So I retested with same 10G
> source AND a typical speedtest (both running) and maxed out my link. The
> 10G pull slowed to a crawl during higher priority (their decision, not
> mine) test.

Just curious:  Did you try using two pulls from two different devices on
your network to the 10G source/pump to see if that would fill your link? 
It could be a single-stream limitation.

-derek

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