I have one of their probes and the certainly work well. All you need is a USB and ethernet port to run one. 

Having never done it before I have put a traceroute request in, will post what results they give you once it finishes.

Cheers,

Bill

On Thu, 21 Jun 2012 10:35:58 +1200, Andy Linton wrote:

I'm working on a requirements document for InternetNZ for a "Network
Measurement Lab" attempting to specify useful testing and measurement
facilities for NZ. It's one of the items on the InTAC agenda in
Auckland next month and this type of facility is firmly in the agenda.

There's a number of possibilities here:

1) The RIPE ATLAS project (https://atlas.ripe.net/) has a facility
that allows RIPE members to request a traceroute from multiple probes
to a destination. The current system will pass the work out to around
700 probes and return a traceroute result set some time later.

Perhaps we could seek to deploy something like the RIPE Atlas probes
around the country or even better push something across the APNIC
region.

There's already a dozen or so of these probes in NZ.

2) Gaurab posted something here the other day about NLNOG RING -
that's another option.

Whatever we come up with let's find a way to make it possible for
people to easily run such tests and make the data and the results
public as a way to improve our network quality.
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