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[Richard Carlson <>]

Hi Chris;

At 04:50 PM 2/12/2007, Christine Siegel wrote:
> I have a couple of questions about the NDT server's behavior:
>
>    Why are the two options that come up when you push the "Options" 
> button grayed out?

These are for future expansion.  We had a Google Summer of Code student 
working on the system last year,  He added in the Simple Firewall test, 
revamped the applet code and did a lot of code cleanup work.  One of the 
future tasks is allowing the user to select which tests to run/ignore.  The 
Options button will support this function.

>    The statistics reported when a wireless connection is tested appear to 
> be wildly off. Why is this?

Can you give me some more details?  I typically find the throughput tests 
quite accurate, both 802.11 B (11 Mbps) and .11 A/G (54 Mbps).  My testing 
shows that with an "excellent" signal strength I get ~5.5 Mbps and ~25 mbps 
respectively.  These are the expected numbers, due to the wireless access 
protocol overhead.  I also see that if the signal gets weak then throughput 
drops off as the access protocol is doing more work.

Regards;
Rich

> Thanks in advance,
> Chris Siegel
>
> --
> Christine Siegel
> Systems Administrator
> University Systems & Security
> Fairleigh Dickinson University
> Email: 
>
> Voice: (201) 692-7131

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