Re: UKNM: Web Connection Performance Testing

[Jamie Unwin]

Not exactly what was asked for. But both of these books have some excellent pointers on measure and dealing with network performance, may be a good starting point (at least once you find someone you will understand what they are meant to be testing !)


Web Performance Tuning - Speeding Up the Web, Patrick Killelea

[O'Reilly]; ISBN: 1-56592-379-0

http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/webpt


also 


Sun Performance and Tuning : Java and the Internet, 2nd edition 

Adrian Cockcroft, Richard Pettit [Sun Microsystems | Prentice Hall]; ISBN: 0130952494


http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0130952494/qid=920027595/sr=1-1/026-7569232-2053460



>Hello Everyone,

>

>I was wondering if anyone has or can remember the names (and hopefully)

>URLs of companies who measure network performance of a website? I can't

>remember where I read about them, but there were at least a couple of

>companies who had accounts at numerous ISPs and would test download speeds

>for a client website at set intervals during days to make sure the site's

>performance was up to scratch.

>

>Naturally putting anything like 'ISP network performance ' into a search

>engine is like opening the Hoover Dam to try and grab a goldfish. So, if

>anyone could help me, it'd be much appreciated.

>

>

>Toodle Pip

>

>Sam


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