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Speed Testing

Generally speaking, ZANOG does not advocate the use of “speed testing”. However, certain tools are useful for troubleshooting if understood and used correctly.

Mikrotik “btest” is available on the ZANOG nodes below. The idea is for local networks to be able to do some basic testing of link capacity. The service is offered as is, with no guarantees. The Mikrotik “P5 license” was kindly donated by David Savage of MikrotikSA.

Durban

DNS
btest.umh.nog.net.za
IPv4
102.222.102.149
IPv6
2001:43f8:1702:800::149
Authentication
None

Hosted on a server with a 10G NIC.

Cape Town

DNS
btest.cpt.nog.net.za
IPv4
102.222.103.106
IPv6
2001:43f8:1703:bb1:64:0:66de:676a
Authentication
None

Only available from prefixes received from ZANOG direct peering and route servers. Expected maximum throughput 2 Gbps.