[wplug] checking a network connection

Phil sublime78ska at comcast.net
Sat Jun 5 07:46:16 EDT 2004


On Thu, 2004-06-03 at 18:08, duncanhutty at comcast.net wrote:
> 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?

You could try this:

http://promos.mcafee.com/speedometer/test_0600.asp

Phil





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