I was just wondering, would any Mikrotik admins be interested in setting up an Internet bandwidth test day?
Something like this; Exposed live IP addresses for Mikrotiks where we could perform bandwidth tests from Internet connected Mikrotik to other Internet connected Mikrotiks.
I suspect we could possibly use this forum to pass ideas and who is participating at what times.
We would need to post and decide on the following:
When (dates and times)
What IP addresses to use to test against other Mikrotiks through the Internet
What kind of bandwidth a participating Mikrotik has to the Internet (100 meg, gig, 10-gig ???)
How long we could run a throughput bandwidth test, (I would guess about 1 minute)
What tested to Mikrotiks should we limit our maximum Tx Speeds to - so that we avoid saturating and killing our own networks
Info on the model of Mikrotik we are testing to
Info on how many “Max Sessions” our Mikrotik is configured to accept
Post our results
We just might learn a lot about our own networks and how good our connections are to and through the Internet and possibly discover any weak/slow/problem links in our own Internet/intranet networks.
At my location here in the North West USA, I could afford allocating a 1-gig link or possibly a 2-gig link (via an actual 10-gig internet connection.
You mean a day and time, at which point everyone will essentially voluntarily let themselves be a potential victim of a DDoS attack, performed most likely by other DDoS attackers of that same group? Sounds like a synopsis for a disaster movie - “The day with no internet access”.
That is not the intent and I worry it could if used with harmful intent.
Thus the reason I was asking for input from forum members their ideas on how it could be done & managed with good intents where we can discover good meaningful information & results.
I do have to say “lol” to your statement “The day with no internet access”.
Any ideas on how to do something like this in a positive way & how & what we could learn/discover ?
I took a look at the simple queues to see if there was somehow the ability to limit bursting to be just enough to get a 10-second measurement then drop down to 1k and force a disconnect. I found a setting for gig plus connections and a setting for low speed SoHo connections but could not find anything that could work for all connections.
