On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 11:04 AM, Ben Ward <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hi NOFfers,
>
> Despite distrusting HTTP Speed Tests I'm investigating speed test 
> software/hardware which I can deploy inside a private network infrastructure 
> to prove problems off our network when only HTTP is available to diagnose 
> "slow internet".  There are several customer proxy servers which we suspect 
> introduce problems, so we're trying to take them out of the picture.
>
> Does anyone have any recommendations here?  We are looking for something 
> convincing enough for end-users, but transparent enough for us to make sense 
> of the results. Also, we'd like to log the results so we can monitor 
> performance.
>

A nice one for diagnostics, but unfortunately less end user friendly
than just a number, is Netalyzr.  It's a Java applet at
http://netalyzr.icsi.berkeley.edu/ or a jar file that you can download
and run at http://netalyzr.icsi.berkeley.edu/cli.html.

A good thing about it is that it generates a weblink to view the
report, which a customer can send to you.

Go to the site and click the start button, you might be impressed with
what you see.

Alex


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