First off, I am trying to get a fairly reliable DSL speed number for
different parts of the day. I want to have a aggregate list of speeds that
I can then give to my boss. I also don't want to have to do this by hand,
going to a bandwidth meter site every 15 minutes. I have tried to cfhttp
these various sites, but there is a redirect in the page usually, so that
is obviously not going to work.
I am interested in the second long paragraph below. CLI? What is that? I
am not a Network guy, so I apologize if this is common knowledge...
I was not aware of the issues that you brought up about bandwidth meter
sites. Makes sense, though. If the data is not reliable, then it is
useless to base a decision on it.
Thanks,
Ray
At 10:08 AM 4/8/2004, Jochem van Dieten wrote:
>Ray Champagne said:
> > Does anybody know of a custom tag or way that I can periodically
> > test my bandwidth?
>
>Bandwidth to where? To ConUs? To Europe?
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> > We are having a debate here about our DSL speed
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>That part is easy, all DSL routers/modems have some CLI that gives
>detailed statistics about the connection, including speed, attainable
>speed, SNR, attenuation etc.
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> > and I would like to have a way of having a task running in
> > the background that will ping a bandwidth meter site and save the
> > results to a file/db/etc.
>
>That will only be reliable if the route to the bandwidth metering site
>is identical to the route to the destination site you want to
>communicate with. Furthermore, most bandwidth meter sites are based on
>java(script) and therefore measure just as much the bandwidth as the
>speed of the browser/computer.
>
>FTP'ing a reasonably large file (it should max out the connection for
>30 seconds or more) is still the preferred way to test, with iPerf as
>a second best.
>
>Jochem
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