On Thu, 7 Sep 2006 18:40:13 +0100, Cub wrote:
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>"Leigh-Anne Mills" <> wrote in message
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>> "Cub" <> wrote in message
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>>> Hiya
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>>> Are there any application that can periodically during the day do a
>>> bandwidth test and log to a file ie spreadsheet or CSV ?
>>>
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>>> Cub
>>>
>> Google is your friend
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>> http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en...onitor&spell=1
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>I'm aware of these but WHAT I asked was a prog that periodically goes out
>does a test and loggs the bandwidth ie once , twice an hour so I can plot
>the quality over a 24 hour period, the ones from your search will give
>useage and average and a few other params i think and typically need you to
>be busy surfing to produce the averages.
Ah, the gold old what do you actually want to test, available bandwidth,
how long it takes to send large files, what happens if you send 500MB
over a 100Mb link and how it varies, or maybe see what you can push
through a link for 30 seconds.
The last is more fun, we gets lots of complaints about LAN performance
and not telling anybody I shove 5GB between 2 buildings multiple times
and no one calls, having just flatlined the max bandwith in several
places. Oh what fun......
Last time at work someone knocked up a VB app, to open MS Word, load a
file, close file and close Word. It did save to a CSV file.
There are several end-to-end GUI (OS independant Java) and cmd line
(several OSs) bandwidth testers, depending on the setup you have, try
www.google.com again, using some varied keywords.
Me