measuring b/w, latency...

prozac · 03-25-2006, 11:23 PM

I have just leased a new connection from my ISP. this is a fibre connection from my network to the ISP. its said to be running on 128Kbps but i am not sure. so i decided to test this connection for measuring b/w, jitter, latency and others using the iperf tool available from
http://dast.nlanr.net/Projects/Iperf/#download
the problem is it requires me to run a iperf server in one location and the client in other. I am just in one place so how do get a iperf server for myself. i am a bit confused here.

~=gr3p=~ · 03-27-2006, 08:26 AM

These tests are not reliable but i liked this one here:

http://www.wugnet.com/myspeed/speedtest.asp

prozac · 03-28-2006, 05:00 AM

is it reliable?
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sn. Download(Kbps) Upload(Kbps)
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1. 78.2 114.4
2. 214 65.6
3. 147 142
4. 70.2 130
5. 132 36
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avg: 128.2 97.6
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i am thinking more about 'ntop', i hope i can use it and i hope it gives me more accurate results. anyway thanks gr3p.

~=gr3p=~ · 03-28-2006, 09:06 AM

yes it will not be accurate offcourse considering there is no other network activity i.e no one else using the bandwidth while you are testing.