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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical RE: Keynote/Boardwatch Internet Backbone Index A better test!!!
So are we all going to all resort to name calling now to get our points across? Every time you deal with a dynamic object such as the Internet, where conditions can change on a minute by minute basis, benchmark results are close to useless. The only thing that benchmarks on a dynamic object can do is give you a rough estimate of the actual throughput.. The variables to be tested in something massive as the Internet and too numerous to count.. SO, lets get on with it :) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------ Jesse W. Wheeler Quality Assurance Analyst Reynolds & Reynolds Healthcare Systems Division Email: Jesse_Wheeler@reyrey.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -------------------------------------------------------- >---------- >From: Jack Rickard[SMTP:jack.rickard@boardwatch.com] >Sent: Friday, June 27, 1997 2:00 PM >To: Ben Black; nanog@merit.edu >Subject: Re: Keynote/Boardwatch Internet Backbone Index A better test!!! > >I'm not a marketing droid. But only a moron would think that overall >performance would NOT affect the download of a web page, which is >essentially what you are attempting to say. > >There are certainly other ways to do it. Approximately Internet User >Population raised to Internet User Population worth. > >Jack RIckard > >=================================================================== >Jack Rickard Boardwatch Magazine >Editor/Publisher 8500 West Bowles Ave., Ste. 210 >jack.rickard@boardwatch.com Littleton, CO 80123 >www.boardwatch.com Voice: (303)973-6038 >=================================================================== > > >---------- >> From: Ben Black <black@zen.cypher.net> >> To: Craig A. Huegen <c-huegen@quadrunner.com> >> Cc: Jack Rickard <jack.rickard@boardwatch.com>; Peter Cole ><Peter.Cole@telescan.com>; nanog@merit.edu; marketing@keynote.com >> Subject: Re: Keynote/Boardwatch Internet Backbone Index A better test!!! >> Date: Friday, June 27, 1997 2:28 PM >> >> for an exmple of somewhat more complete and better designed benchmarks of > >> this type: >> >> http://www.inversenet.com/about/backgrounder.html#2 >> >> note that they understand the numerous factors that contribute to overall > >> performance. only a marketing droid could think downloading 50k worth of > >> web pages is somehow an indicator of overall performance. >> >> >> b3n > |