[CLUE-Tech] Testing Network Performance?

[Timothy C. Klein]

* Jeffery Cann (fabian at jefferycann.com) wrote:
> Greetings.
> 
> I seem to have intermittent and unpredictable network slowdowns on my ATTBI 
> account.  The 'support' person was unhelpful -- she didn't know why and told 
> me to report the problem to 'abuse at attbi.com'.  She also couldn't explain why 
> I would report it to an email address, rather than going to another support 
> person.
> 
> So, I am looking for recommendations for command-line tools that folks have 
> used.  I would like run test of my network performance (really, only the 
> latency and transfer rate) via cron for a few days to see if I am imagining 
> the problem or what.  Sure, no objective benchmark is not great, but this is 
> a start.

Sounds to me like the tech support person was none to bright, huh?

I have found the tool iptraf to be very helpful in showing me network
link utilization.  With it, I have found that to servers run by my ISP, I
actully get 1.2 Mb / sec with my 640 Kb / sec DSL line :-)

You have to have some traffic on the wire though, iptraf does not do any
of its own.  It just monitors the existing network load.

Tim
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