JohnWestra Posted September 25, 2014 CID Share Posted September 25, 2014 Many of us use Skype or other VOIP solutions to communicate. In the case of Skype, I often find myself speaking to someone and having the connection quality go from Black (High) to Yellow (Medium) to Red (Fail). Unless the other party is experiencing a known Internet outage or other problem, there is no way to know why the call had a problem. It would be great to be able to do a speed test between two TestMy.net endpoints. This testing could combine load testing with traceroute testing to help identify where a point-to-point communication problem might exist. The goal of this type of testing, would be to provide end users with actual/actionable information on where there data may be throttled and by whom, potentially incorporating elements of the Glasnost project. Simulating certain types of traffic (VOIP, FTP, etc.) could reveal what types of data might be the victim of selective throttling (traffic shaping) or delays that could indicate man-in-the-middle-induced delays. John Westra @@John_Westra Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CA3LE Posted September 28, 2014 CID Share Posted September 28, 2014 Thanks for the feedback. Have you seen tracemy.net or testmercury.net yet? I think these recently released tools are right up your alley. iceb 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnWestra Posted October 1, 2014 Author CID Share Posted October 1, 2014 Thanks for the additional tool suggestions! How about giving two users to simultaneously collaborate and run a comprehensive suite of tests to common end points and share the results in real-time? Also, getting test results based on image downloads is helpful, but it doesn't address the issue of ISPs throttling particular packet types such as VOIP. irenemoran 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CA3LE Posted October 2, 2014 CID Share Posted October 2, 2014 Thanks for the additional tool suggestions! How about giving two users to simultaneously collaborate and run a comprehensive suite of tests to common end points and share the results in real-time? Also, getting test results based on image downloads is helpful, but it doesn't address the issue of ISPs throttling particular packet types such as VOIP. Can you point me to some good articles that have evidence of ISPs throttling VoIP traffic? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TriRan Posted October 2, 2014 CID Share Posted October 2, 2014 Every article I've read points to it mainly happening in the EU and primarily on mobile networks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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