Patent ID: 9215086
Filing Date: 2015-12-15
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A method for testing data communications speed being delivered between a network node and a customer premise, said method comprising: initiating a data communications speed test to determine speed of data being communicated between a modem at the customer premise and the network node over a network, the customer premise being a physical location of an end user, and wherein a firewall of the modem separates the customer premise from the network; causing test data to be downloaded from the network node; causing upload test data to be uploaded to the network node; receiving the test data directly on a network facing side of the firewall; measuring line speed, by the modem, of the directly received test data being downloaded, as received on the network facing side of the firewall; measuring line speed, by the modem, of the upload test data being uploaded to the network node after the upload test data passes through the firewall of the modem; passing a result of the data communications speed test through the firewall to a customer premise facing side of the firewall, wherein the result includes the measured line speed; displaying the measured line speed of the downloaded test data; and displaying the measured line speed of the uploaded test data.