[atlas] Speed tests?

brak at gameservers.com:
> Are there any plans to allow testing download speed from the probes?
> I guess this could cause problems for people who have the probes on
> metered bandwidth plans.

My SEK 0.02 to the Atlas admin is plese don't go that way. That would be
a very safe way to have me yank my probe out effective 0.1 seconds from
me getting the news.

While Atlas performs a very important and valuable service to the
community - which is why I sacrify some of my precious personal
bandwidth for it - I want to caution agains "death by testing".
"Just because you can" is not a good reason to perform capacity tests.

But if it can honestly be said "If $we only knew the performance stats
from region X for service Y, then $we could easily and effectively
improve the experience for all internet users (i.e., not only customers
of said service) in that region by doing Y.", then a discussion would be
welcome.

Finding a suitable value of $we is essential, though.

				  /Liman
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