The best way to test bandwidth is to use simple tools like iPerf. Techs should load iPerf on their laptops as well.
Iperf was developed by NLANR/DAST as a modern alternative for measuring maximum TCP and UDP bandwidth performance. Iperf allows the tuning of various parameters and UDP characteristics. Iperf reports bandwidth, delay jitter, datagram loss. http://sourceforge.net/projects/iperf/ _____________________________________________________________________________________ Glenn Kelley | Principle | HostMedic |www.HostMedic.com Email: [email protected] Pplease don't print this e-mail unless you really need to. On Jan 29, 2010, at 5:59 PM, John Thomas wrote: > Kinda sounds like a WISP, eh? As long as they aren't overselling it to > the point quality suffers, who cares? We had to work at just doing a > speed test on our 100 meg connection as most of the servers couldn't do > 100 meg up and 100 meg down. We finally were able to do a ftp and get 95 > meg/95 meg to verify that it was working as advertised. I still smile > when I can do traceroutes to cities miles away and have all the hops at > 1 ms, or less when using Linux. > > John > > Justin Wilson wrote: >> Plus they want to oversell this cheap bandwidth. They don¹t want you to >> max out that Gig circuit. Allows them to oversell their bandwidth that much >> more. >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> >> >> >> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> WISPA Wants You! Join today! >> http://signup.wispa.org/ >> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] >> >> Subscribe/Unsubscribe: >> http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless >> >> Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > WISPA Wants You! Join today! > http://signup.wispa.org/ > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] > > Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
