Measuring the quality of Internet access

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Hi All,

I know there are many people from many countries.

Do you know something about mandatory measurements of Internet access
quality from country telecom regulators? If yes, could you please share
that information with me?

I found ETSI EG 202 057-4 standard
(http://www.etsi.org/deliver/etsi_eg/202000_202099/20205704/01.02.01_60/eg_20205704v010201p.pdf),
but in fact it is about measurements inside operator's network, not
Internet access itself.

Is it possible in general to measure the quality of Internet access? And
if yes - how?

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CIRA (.CA) started a project one or two years ago: https://cira.ca/build-better-internet/cira-internet-performance-test

CRTC (Canadian equivalent of the FCC) also conducted tests by sending test boxes to volunteers: http://www.crtc.gc.ca/eng/internet/performance.htm and https://www.measuringbroadbandcanada.com

Eric

3

Thank you!

I got one more reply off-list - and again it is connected to SamKnows.

But I can't figure out what SamKnows uses as the destination for tests?

4

Would be M-lab (https://www.measurementlab.net/about/) what you are looking
for?

.as

5

First, *define* "quality". Raw bandwidth to a test server? Raw bandwidth
to a weighted average of the Alexa Top 100? Does RTT/bufferbloat count?
What about RTT jitter?

6

Are you aware of https://atlas.ripe.net/ ?

7

As I understand the destination differs per measurement partnership, but in
at least the United States a substantial portion of the infrastructure is
provided by Measurement Lab, as a virtualized host within the broader set
of tools that the platform supports.

M-Lab also provides resources to a number of other quality of service and
experience measurement tools, such as NDT, BISmark and Neubot. CIRA's
initiative, noted earlier, also uses M-Lab and NDT, as do a few regulators
in Europe and elsewhere.

Please always feel free to reach out, we are always eager to collaborate
with network operators to use our tools and extend our platform –
everything is open source and open access.

Cordially,
Collin

8

Sure, even host some :wink:

But my question about govermental initiatives/regulations about it, if any.

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...not to mention the definition of "Internet". Aside from well-known
filters, see also
https://ripe72.ripe.net/presentations/6-2016-05-23-connectivity.pdf
and https://ripe72.ripe.net/archives/video/241/

Cheers,

Joe

10

Well, that was MY question! =)

What who where (goverment/regulators) define as the quality?

11

All results will be very depend of target choise, as we can understand.
So that's the main point.

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austria does something like this:

https://www.rtr.at/en/tk/netztesthilfe

includes a lot of information and even sourcecode on the measurement apps...

Stefan

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Hi,

Hi All,

I know there are many people from many countries.

Do you know something about mandatory measurements of Internet access
quality from country telecom regulators? If yes, could you please share
that information with me?

ARCEP, the telecom regulatory body from France, publishes regular reports
on the quality of Internet access:

  Actualités et communiqués | Arcep

The methodology is described in the PDF (unfortunately, only available in
French, it seems). See also:

  http://arcep.fr/index.php?id=11894&L=1