Testing bandwidth/throughput/latency

[SagaLore]

I have a WAN I would like to do some tests on between offices. Any free programs out there I could run on both sides of the Frame/T1, and run a test?

 

[spidey07]

Originally posted by: SagaLore
I have a WAN I would like to do some tests on between offices. Any free programs out there I could run on both sides of the Frame/T1, and run a test?

ping - latency
ftp - throughput

 

[SagaLore]

Originally posted by: spidey07

Originally posted by: SagaLore
I have a WAN I would like to do some tests on between offices. Any free programs out there I could run on both sides of the Frame/T1, and run a test?

ping - latency
ftp - throughput

:| I want some real benchmarks! Ping and FTP doesn't tell me how much real bandwidth there is, just how well ping and ftp work.

 

[spidey07]

Originally posted by: SagaLore

Originally posted by: spidey07

Originally posted by: SagaLore
I have a WAN I would like to do some tests on between offices. Any free programs out there I could run on both sides of the Frame/T1, and run a test?

ping - latency
ftp - throughput

:| I want some real benchmarks! Ping and FTP doesn't tell me how much real bandwidth there is, just how well ping and ftp work.

listen you little punk I offered advice and you give me attitude. Knock it off. I've been doing this crap for 10 years and we still use ping and a filetransfer to test latency and thruput.

PING gives you round trip time...you asked for something to test latency, that is EXACTLY what ping is used for.
FTP provides you with throughput and from there you can derive bandwidth.

What is with the attitudes here lately? :disgust:

For best latency results run it during the night or when there is no other traffic on the circuit.

 

[SagaLore]

Originally posted by: spidey07

Originally posted by: SagaLore

Originally posted by: spidey07

Originally posted by: SagaLore
I have a WAN I would like to do some tests on between offices. Any free programs out there I could run on both sides of the Frame/T1, and run a test?

ping - latency
ftp - throughput

:| I want some real benchmarks! Ping and FTP doesn't tell me how much real bandwidth there is, just how well ping and ftp work.

listen you little punk I offered advice and you give me attitude. Knock it off. I've been doing this crap for 10 years and we still use ping and a filetransfer to test latency and thruput.

PING gives you round trip time...you asked for something to test latency, that is EXACTLY what ping is used for.
FTP provides you with throughput and from there you can derive bandwidth.

What is with the attitudes here lately? :disgust:

For best latency results run it during the night or when there is no other traffic on the circuit.

Woah spidey, calm down, don't feel threatened about my gratuitous use of an emoticon.

I'm looking for a single application that will run a stress test for a few minutes, then give me a nice little report. I pointed out that I was on a WAN, so I hoped I didn't have to explain that I'm a Systems Administrator that already knows how to use ping, ftp, tracert, etc.

I don't hang out in this particular subforum much so I didn't know anyone else was giving you grief.

 

[JackMDS]

Originally posted by: spidey07
What is with the attitudes here lately? :disgust:

LOL.

A paraphrase on what said well long time ago.

Welcome to the "Kids" of the 21st Century. (Spidey07, 2004). :brokenheart:

My feelings. I post for the many that read and learn from the thread. :music:

I get Thank You PMs and emails from people that their name does not appear on the Thread or even on the BBS.

On the other hand the word Thanks seem to be missing from the vocabulary of many participants here. :|

You can be sure that there are few others that saw your answer and thankfully register it onto their Brain Banks.

I have a pretty good professional psychological explanation for this phenomenon, but Nah, I am not going to dwell into this time.

 

[JackMDS]

In any case SagaLore, on your mind it was probably something like this.

A FREE Utility for Network Troubleshooting from NetIQ!).

You install the master program on one computer, and End point Client on all other computers on the Network.

 

[spidey07]

Originally posted by: SagaLore

Originally posted by: spidey07

Originally posted by: SagaLore

Originally posted by: spidey07

Originally posted by: SagaLore
I have a WAN I would like to do some tests on between offices. Any free programs out there I could run on both sides of the Frame/T1, and run a test?

ping - latency
ftp - throughput

:| I want some real benchmarks! Ping and FTP doesn't tell me how much real bandwidth there is, just how well ping and ftp work.

listen you little punk I offered advice and you give me attitude. Knock it off. I've been doing this crap for 10 years and we still use ping and a filetransfer to test latency and thruput.

PING gives you round trip time...you asked for something to test latency, that is EXACTLY what ping is used for.
FTP provides you with throughput and from there you can derive bandwidth.

What is with the attitudes here lately? :disgust:

For best latency results run it during the night or when there is no other traffic on the circuit.

Woah spidey, calm down, don't feel threatened about my gratuitous use of an emoticon.

I'm looking for a single application that will run a stress test for a few minutes, then give me a nice little report. I pointed out that I was on a WAN, so I hoped I didn't have to explain that I'm a Systems Administrator that already knows how to use ping, ftp, tracert, etc.

I don't hang out in this particular subforum much so I didn't know anyone else was giving you grief.

sorry dude. please accept my appologies. Its been a hard couple 'o months.

cheers!

:beer:

 

[SagaLore]

Originally posted by: JackMDS
In any case SagaLore, on your mind it was probably something like this.

A FREE Utility for Network Troubleshooting from NetIQ!).

You install the master program on one computer, and End point Client on all other computers on the Network.

Thank you! That's exactly what I was looking for. :lips:

 

[SagaLore]

Originally posted by: spidey07

Originally posted by: SagaLore

Originally posted by: spidey07

Originally posted by: SagaLore

Originally posted by: spidey07

Originally posted by: SagaLore
I have a WAN I would like to do some tests on between offices. Any free programs out there I could run on both sides of the Frame/T1, and run a test?

ping - latency
ftp - throughput

:| I want some real benchmarks! Ping and FTP doesn't tell me how much real bandwidth there is, just how well ping and ftp work.

listen you little punk I offered advice and you give me attitude. Knock it off. I've been doing this crap for 10 years and we still use ping and a filetransfer to test latency and thruput.

PING gives you round trip time...you asked for something to test latency, that is EXACTLY what ping is used for.
FTP provides you with throughput and from there you can derive bandwidth.

What is with the attitudes here lately? :disgust:

For best latency results run it during the night or when there is no other traffic on the circuit.

Woah spidey, calm down, don't feel threatened about my gratuitous use of an emoticon.

I'm looking for a single application that will run a stress test for a few minutes, then give me a nice little report. I pointed out that I was on a WAN, so I hoped I didn't have to explain that I'm a Systems Administrator that already knows how to use ping, ftp, tracert, etc.

I don't hang out in this particular subforum much so I didn't know anyone else was giving you grief.

sorry dude. please accept my appologies. Its been a hard couple 'o months.

cheers!

:beer:

:beer:

I know what you mean, we're into tax season...

 

[cmetz]

For a WAN line that is comparatively slow, FTP is actually a good benchmark, because any modern computer can push a megabit or a few megabits without much trouble. The only two catches: use a big file (several megabytes) in order to overcome TCP slow-start, and use a FTP client that has reasonably reliable reporting of FTP throughput (read: not IE).

Another good tool, probably better for higher-bandwidth links, is netperf. It's a *IX tool, there's probably a Cygwin port for you Windows people but there's probably enough overhead in that to be able to mess up results. (I'm sure someone will chime in with a Windows test program)

Latency & loss: use ping. Really. Do it on both an idle line and a line that's loaded as much as you can with one TCP stream (e.g., by FTP) and check the loss under both circumstances.

The best network tools are the simplest. If you want to have a cool looking GUI and a 10MB installer wrapped around ping, I'm sure someone will be happy to sell it to you, but don't assume that just because it's simple, small, and comes with the OS that it can't tell you what you need to know. In fact, it's doubly useful because of that ubiquity - you know that if you go to some random box, it's probably going to have ping and ftp on it, rather than you having to find and install some third-party program.

 

[Darthkim]

for testing lan throughput and bandwidth, try netcps. It generates files (100 meg +) in memory and doesn't touch the hard drive. for windows but no gui =)

 

[ScottMac]

I think he may be looking for QCheck from www.netiq.com.

It's free. It'll do throughput, latency, and packet drop for TCP, UDP, IPX ... some other stuff. QCheck must be loaded on both ends of the link.

Its big brother (Chariot) is frequently used to eval WAN connections.


Good Luck

Scott

Edit: Oooops, I don't know how I missed Jack's response. Whatever. Qcheck is a good thing.

 

[Bovinicus]

Originally posted by: JackMDS
In any case SagaLore, on your mind it was probably something like this.

A FREE Utility for Network Troubleshooting from NetIQ!).

You install the master program on one computer, and End point Client on all other computers on the Network.

That's a nice little utility. I'm on the verge of starting a business with a friend in which we will be doing some small scale networking. This program will definitely prove useful.

 

[AFB]

Ohh my.. The network forum is getting worse than OT.

 

[ScottMac]

Them's fightin' words 'round these here parts!!....

Worse how?

Doesn't matter - I disagree.

Go away.

Scott

 

[spidey07]

Originally posted by: ScottMac
Them's fightin' words 'round these here parts!!....

Worse how?

Doesn't matter - I disagree.

Go away.

Scott

calm down buddy. (anybody reading this should know that scott and I are friends)

for some reason everbody's been really tense. Me included.

back to the regular scheduled thread.

In some respects my lack of patience is contributing and I'm trying to be more helpful.
cheers!
:beer:

 

[Mucman]

Just in case any Unix dudes want similar software you can try out NetPerf.

 

[JackMDS]

Concerning Chariot, and Qcheck.

I am not familiar with the Business commercial aspect of the change, it just happened recently.

NetIq.com is currently presenting themselves as an Internet Security provider.

Chariot (a commercial product) which considered one of the Standard evaluation package for Network evaluation is currently a product maintained by Ixia.com

The same is with.

Qcheck is a free subset like of Chariot, it is suitable for small Network and it is available from the same vendor.

Link to: A FREE Utility for Network Troubleshooting from Ixia.

Link to: IxChariot 5.

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