Priscilla Oppenheimer wrote:
> 
> I wonder if he really meant to ask about clocking? 

Good point.  Sometimes the CSU is not CPE but rather telco-provided.  If you
buy a fracitonal service and just stick a router on it on blind faith, you
have no idea how many timeslots were activated in the T1/E1.  But your FR
scenario sounds much more likely.

>The language
> sounds like he may have meant one or the other of these:
> 
> 1) Bandwidth (capacity), in which case he could ask the
> provider (again!?) and, if it's Frame Relay, maybe see the
> bandwidth by using the "show frame pvc" command.
> 
> 2) Throughput, in which case it must be measured with tools
> like TCP  Test (TCPT) and others.
> 
> Priscilla
> 
> 
> Howard C. Berkowitz wrote:
> > 
> > At 10:59 AM +0000 1/8/03, Marakalas wrote:
> > >Hi All,
> > >
> > >How does one check the clocking that is provided by
> > >the telecommunications company to me. I just
> > >established that on one of my links in the network,
> > >our company has been paying for a 512kb line, and
> > >instead the line we're getting is a 128kb.
> > >
> > >Any assistance in this regard will be highly
> > >appreciated.
> > >
> > >Marakalas
> > 
> > You're going to need a hardware test instrument. Some
> > higher-end
> > multimeters and wiring testers have frequency counters. You
> can
> > use a
> > standalone frequency/pulse counter. Otherwise, I'd use an 
> > oscilloscope, with the caveat I know what the pulse train is
> > supposed
> > to look like.
> > 
> > I am assuming here that you are talking about physical clock
> > rate on
> > a DSU, not throughput rate.  That's a different problem.
> > 
> > 
> 
> 




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