[ale] Measuring DSL performance

[Greg]

What tools have you found ?  and are they what you want ?  You might also
try hitting the logging functions and such.  Also try to search for
"bandwidth monitors Linux" "network monitors Linux"  and several different
search terms.  You also should know *how* they work since many just access
and parse log files that you could then just save and examine yourself.
OpenBSD uses altq, mrtg (?), and some other network monitors that I am sure
you could download and compile.  Syslog is prominent I think.

If you don't find what you want, then give the list another ring and I will
send you all of what I have found in Greg's Big List of Links (which is just
a directory of saved pages over the many years and is not organized, so it
would take a while).  Of course, you could also call up your ISP and see if
what they have is useful.  Many keep such statistics as a matter of doing
business.  I know when I was with Mindspring they had this info on their
little app that connected you to the Internet.

I don't really think that you will see a big difference, unless your ISP
throttles the bandwidth, since Bell South owns the wires.  All that they
will do is just push a few buttons/use a different router/whatever to change
you over.  If it's all the same equipment/technology then it will be the
same.  I have noticed that speedfactory's newsgroups seem to be a bit slower
then telocity's were - or at least it seems that way.  I think that this is
just due to Telocity's bigger size and more than likely bigger/faster/more
hardware for news servers.

Greg

> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Wells [mailto:jb at sourceillustrated.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2003 7:33 PM
> To: ale at ale.org
> Cc: runman at speedfactory.net
> Subject: RE: [ale] Measuring DSL performance
>
>
> Greg,
>
> Thanks for the info.  I'm looking for a bit more info than a browser would
> provide, and as you mention throughput is dependent on the serving end as
> well.  Look for more of a summary over time.
>
> I have googled quite a bit, but the two tools I've tried so far produced
> quite different results.  Was wondering if there was a tried-and-true tool
> out there I was missing.
>
> Thanks again for your input.  I'll give one more tool a go and see what I
> get.
>
> John
>
> Greg said:
> > well, just a browser, really.  One of the larger ftp sites is Oracle's
> > (just fill in a bunch of crap if you have to "join"), I guess you could
> > also download OpenBSD, SuSE, red-hot, or such.  On every browser I have
> > it tells me how fast, but the trouble is that many companies have slow
> > servers or throttle the bandwidth.  dslreports is probably the best, as
> > they just generate a stream of bits.  Your browser should work ok - if
> > not then try Netscape, opera, whatever gnome uses, Konquerer, etc ... ..
> > or maybe you could just use ftp.  Of course if your Windows is the only
> > one that works, then use it, as it the download speed you are measuring.
> >  I know that almost every distro has several monitors, so just search
> > for one on the distro - and remember, Google is your friend.
> >
> > Greg
> >
>
>
>

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