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sumeet inani

07-04-2011 02:09 PM

finding out max internet speed in ubuntu

I have 512 kbps broadband.
I want to find out the peak download speed I get.
For example : during day time the speed is relatively low. At midnight the download speed rises abruptly.

In windows xp I had netmeter which will save the peak value whenever it occurs.
I don't want to find average speed.

I have installed wireshark & iftop.
How do I use them ?

frankbell

07-04-2011 09:21 PM

You can use http://speedtest.net/ for on-demand on-line tests.

This website purports to suggest some possibilities.

divyashree

07-04-2011 11:05 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by sumeet inani (Post 4404689)

Try this on your linux system .. a good one..

Code:

bandwidthd

http://nst.sourceforge.net/nst/docs/user/ch02s05.html

It will give you a detailed solution based on graph.

sumeet inani

07-05-2011 06:28 AM

I see that file:///var/lib/bandwidthd/htdocs/Subnet-1-192.168.8.0.html is webpage dynamically updated by bandwidthd daemon.

sumeet inani

07-05-2011 06:38 AM

thanks divyashree

The html file I mentioned above tells me what has been peak receive data rate so far.
Though I did not find web page to configure it .
http://nst.sourceforge.net/nst/docs/user/ch02s05.html says to access web user interface.

divyashree

07-05-2011 10:17 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by sumeet inani (Post 4405530)

You can access that webpage from your browser by:

PHP Code:




http://localhost/bandwidthd

sumeet inani

07-05-2011 10:30 PM

I got

Code:

Unable to connect

Firefox can't establish a connection to the server at localhost.

    *  The site could be temporarily unavailable or too busy. Try again in a few

          moments.

    *  If you are unable to load any pages, check your computer's network

          connection.

    *  If your computer or network is protected by a firewall or proxy, make sure

          that Firefox is permitted to access the Web.

divyashree

07-05-2011 11:01 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by sumeet inani (Post 4406299)

I got

Code:

Unable to connect

Firefox can't establish a connection to the server at localhost.

    *  The site could be temporarily unavailable or too busy. Try again in a few

          moments.

    *  If you are unable to load any pages, check your computer's network

          connection.

    *  If your computer or network is protected by a firewall or proxy, make sure

          that Firefox is permitted to access the Web.

Have you apache installed on your machine ???

sumeet inani

07-07-2011 10:54 PM

no
i am not running any server just surfing .

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