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Revision: 647
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Date:     Wed Sep 21 11:35:21 2011
Log:      Removed misleading information from the introduction about how  
often the NDT server is collecting web100 variables. The introduction is  
not a good place for such technical details.
http://code.google.com/p/ndt/source/detail?r=647

Modified:
 /wiki/NDTTestMethodology.wiki

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--- /wiki/NDTTestMethodology.wiki       Wed Sep 21 05:37:16 2011
+++ /wiki/NDTTestMethodology.wiki       Wed Sep 21 11:35:21 2011
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 == Introduction ==

-NDT is a typical memory to memory client/server test device. Throughput  
measurements closely measure the network performance, ignoring disk I/O  
effects. The real strength is in the advanced diagnostic features that are  
enabled by the kernel data automatically collected by the web100 monitoring  
infrastructure.  This data is collected during the test (at 5 msec  
increments) and analyzed after the test completes to determine what, if  
anything, impacted the test. One of the MAJOR issues facing commodity  
Internet users is the performance limiting host configuration settings for  
the Windows XP operating system. To illustrate this, a cable modem user  
with basic service (15 Mbps download) would MAX out at 13 Mbps with a 40  
msec RTT delay. Thus unless the ISP proxies content, the majority of  
traffic will be limited by the clients configuration and NOT the ISP's  
infrastructure.  The NDT server can detect and report this problem, saving  
consumers and ISP's dollars by allowing them to quickly identify where to  
start looking for a problem.
+NDT is a typical memory to memory client/server test device. Throughput  
measurements closely measure the network performance, ignoring disk I/O  
effects. The real strength is in the advanced diagnostic features that are  
enabled by the kernel data automatically collected by the web100 monitoring  
infrastructure.  This data is collected during the test and analyzed after  
the test completes to determine what, if anything, impacted the test. One  
of the MAJOR issues facing commodity Internet users is the performance  
limiting host configuration settings for the Windows XP operating system.  
To illustrate this, a cable modem user with basic service (15 Mbps  
download) would MAX out at 13 Mbps with a 40 msec RTT delay. Thus unless  
the ISP proxies content, the majority of traffic will be limited by the  
clients configuration and NOT the ISP's infrastructure.  The NDT server can  
detect and report this problem, saving consumers and ISP's dollars by  
allowing them to quickly identify where to start looking for a problem.

 NDT operates on any client with a Java-enabled Web browser; further:
  * What it can do: