How to figure out if low WISP speeds are due to traffic shaping or something else
I pay for a certain number of Mbps from my new WISP provider in the Santa Cruz mountains yet I get about half that most of the time. A quarter of the time I get even less than half that. The WISP is responsive but only when I call him.
Then the speeds suddenly jump up to near the advertised speeds.
But, a few days later (sometimes only a day later), they drop down back to lousy. I call him. They jump back up. A few days later, they drop back down to lousy.
I can tell all this simply by using the speed test web sites, e.g., nitro.ucsc.edu --> Point to UC Santa Cruz speedtest.net --> Point to San Jose server speakeasy.net/speedtest --> Point to San Francisco server
I 'think' it's all due to the traffic shaping at the access point (the WISP can't traffic shape at my radio/antenna because it's my equipment, not his so he doesn't have the login).
But HOW can I tell WHERE the speed bottleneck is occurring? (it could be my equipment, his traffic shaping, his equipment, or something else altogether).
What tests can I run to pinpoint the reason the speeds are so bad at the times they're so bad?
read more and respond »Posted 5 years ago by Chuck Banshee in Wireless Networking
