We are interested in alternative ways of actively measuring the throughputs for countries of the world especially for developing countries. Part of this is to compare the results from direct measurements of throughput with those obtained from the PingER derived throughputs. There are several active end-to-end throughput measurement web sites available today including Cnet, ZDNet.UK, ZDnet.AU, Ookla, NDT servers, NPAD servers, A Beltronica Telecom, Speakeasy. Of these NDT and NPAD are mainly diagnostic tools. NDT, NPAD, CNet and Speakeasy have servers in the US only, ZDNet.AU servers in Australia only, though it does not say we suspect ZDNet.UK probably has servers in the UK only. A Beltronica lists about 80 countries four of which are in Africa. We could find publicly accessible archives of results from only ZDNet.AU which we have analyzed elsewhere. We contacted Ookla Ookla solicited input so we contacted them by email on November 27, 2007 to see if we could get more complete data from their archivearchives. Mike Apgar and Doug Suttles of Ookla were kind enough to reply, answer questions, and on December 6, 2007 provide data suitable for importing into Excel (CSV format) and analyzing.
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