[olug] Active bandwidth monitoring

[Rob Townley]

On 7/16/07, Daniel Linder <dan at linder.org> wrote:
>
> I'm trying to pro-actively monitor the "real world" speed that I'm getting
> with my @Work connection.
>
> Unfortunately Googling for "bandwidth monitoring" brings up programs that
> will monitor traffic already going through the machines interfaces, not
> actively probing a set of remote sites.
>
> In a perfect world the application would have a list sites to download a
> test file from, compute the average, and store the details in a RRD file
> for later review.  As another idea, the "list of sites" could be a set of
> "random Google/Yahoo/MSN/etc links" -- a better "real world" test?
>
> Questions:
> 1: Has anyone run across a tool like this that is free and will run on
> Linux?
> 2: If I stared to write something like this, has anyone got some Perl code
> to grab random URLs from a search engine?
>
> Dan
>
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There was a source forge project i wanted to try out, but i can't find it
now.  Meanwhile, you may want to look at some of the tools mentioned on this
page.



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