[wplug] checking a network connection

[duncanhutty at comcast.net]

hmmm large files from major sites eh? and check upload by using a connection that's known to be bigger? well ok, but i was hoping for something slightly more formal.

> Is trhis for you, or one of your customers?  It's not so clear from your 
> post.

internal customer.


> > Having just installed a new DSL connection, I would like to verify that
> > its bandwidth is at least somewhere near what was advertised (in each
> > direction).
> > 
> > I don't need to be very rigourous about this and it's not worth a lot of
> > effort to me so I'm not about to learn a network monitoring package. I'm
> > not going to analyse it, just glance over it somewhat.
> > 
> > But I would like to be able to say to the customer, in handwaving sort
> > of way, that they're getting what they paid for. Any ideas on a simple
> > way to do this?
> 
> I routinely check my download bandwidth by downloading large files (say, 
> self-extracting executables for windows) from major distribution sites, 
> and I check my upload bandwidth by scp'ing files from my routerserver to 
> my laptop over a known-high-bandwidth connection (say, from here at CMU).
> 
> Is trhis for you, or one of your customers?  It's not so clear from your 
> post.
> 
> -Brandon
> 
> 
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