[c-nsp] Internet speed

[Giles Coochey]

On 15/08/2018 09:22, Rasto Rickardt wrote:
> Well, it might depend of what customer experience is for their use-case.
>
> If you have residential user with 1Gbit with 4 users behind wifi, i can
> imagine more than 100Mbit/s will not alter their experience. Not way
> less, 4 times 4K youtube video will eat around 80Mbit/s.
>
> But if you have power soho/enterprise customer which is using the line
> for offsite backups or file synchronization and is well aware of
> limitation of underlying protocols and is able to use multiple
> sessions(lanes) it might be a bit different here.
You get what you pay for really, if you buy a residential connection, 
which has contention in the small print, no guarantees of service in the 
contract and then start to use it for business use then it's a case of 
caveat emptor.

Enterprise customers (with a business contract and strict SLA) can be 
asked to produce traceroutes (to prove everything is on-net), run iperf 
on clean systems directly connected to CPEs, etc... Start doing that 
with a residential customer and you'll quickly reach the point where 
they haven't got a clue what you're saying.
>  From this point of view is speedtest.net providing best available
> service. It runs on all of end-devices, can mimic end-user experience,
> and network engineers did not come with anything remotely comparable :).
>
> r.
>