Hello Mikrotik community,
I often use bandwidth test inside ROS to test connection quality about links point to point and customer's adsl.
I always believed this tool is a proper and fast way to test real bandwith avaiable to the user, but now I have many cases where the result do not confirm this likeness between btest and real bandwith.
I did many tests where, from CPE, the btest shows full bandwidth, but in "speedtest.net" the customer obtains about half bandwith.
So I searched the cause in every spot (link wireless, ap, cpe, queues, optical fibers, lan, pc, configurations, traffic monitor, etc...) and I collected a lot of information for a believable statistic.
The first result is when in backhauling there is a PtP wireless link with ccq <60-80%, customers are affected by issues, but they are invisibile to btest.
But now others customers report slowdown:
- btest form cpe to internet -> 100% bandwith
- real bandwith (speedtest, download, iperf same result) is about half.
So the problem is I cannot use btest for real test from cpe to internet, and I must telephone they to see real connection quality. Does exist another way to test bandwidth from remote site without interact with custumers?
My networK
-CPE wireless
-AP nv2/nstreme
-PPPoE authentication
-backhauling: wireless link (nv2)