Re: Accurate Broadband Speed Tests

Kurt Ullman <kurtullman@xxxxxxxxx> hath wroth:

In article <b6dms3tptnvanbloopec1530nop3hf05qq@xxxxxxx>,

Pardon my igorance by I think service quality and QoS (Quality of
Service) are different animals. My guess(tm) is that your numbers are
a conglomeration of various imparement numbers, such as packet loss,
latency, jitter, and fragmentation.

Not sure what it is either (that is part of my question, I guess)
those are the numbers that Visual ware gives me.

Here's what my report for my home Cruzio 1500/384 DSL line looks like:
<http://mssjc.visualware.com/myspeed/db/report?id=848370>

Note the packet loss at about 6.5 seconds into the test, which
resulted in a huge latency value. I'm not sure what caused this
hickup, but it's probably one of a half dozen assorted daemons I have
running that eat CPU cycles and suck bandwidth (Skype, GizmoProject,
Pidgin, NTP, etc). This hickup later caused the QoS percentage to
drop well below 100%. The values much be constant to get a good QoS
value. Nice test.

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