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How to Test Your T1?
lawpoop asks: "We have a T1 line for our building with a local ISP. Right now, we're looking for competitive bids from different companies. The local guy is offering a good price, but the larger guys are saying he may be overselling the T1 service through a DS-3. He swears he's not. So, how do I tell? The sales guys say 'There's bandwidth meters on the web,' but they fail to mention exactly how I can tell if I have a true T1. I've tried a half-dozen bandwith meters on various websites, and the results are highly variable. We've gotten 300-900 Kbps. Each site has disclaimers as to internet traffic, time of day, etc. Furthermore, we split the T1 out over a hub with two other tenants in the building. I'm coming through from behind that hub. How can I tell for certain that I'm getting a full T1? A service tech with a line tester? Any dead-on bandwith meters? What would an oversold T1 read out to be as compared to a true T1? If the larger guys are trying to scare me to their service with stories of oversold T1s, I need to know that they aren't doing it also!"
24 channels of 64 kbits apiece. We sell T1s to customers, and if one of them wanted a util to test their bandwidth (the full 1.544 mbit) they could download a file from an ftp right at our pop. Or, have them ping flood you... use something like mrtg to graph the results, etc.
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DSLreports.com is the only site you'll EVER need for that purpose. Just go to the tools section. It will tell you your up and down, how it compares to other types of connections, and you can enter what city you live in and your ISP so that it can compare your speeds between other people all over the country with every type of connection. It's really an awesome, quick little tool, go check it out.
Finally, math books without any of that base 6 crap in them.
I've noticed with a few of our local smaller broadband companies that they will have a diagnostic bandwidth meter on their website.
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The advantage to that is there is no 'internet traffic' delay to speak of because its basically a direct connection from one end of the line to the other. They've found it to be an invaluable diagnostic tool for tech support.
I'm guessing not to many larger companies are going to do this, that and "fixing" the meter to their advantage is always a possibility
I learned all I know from other members of my LUG. What I didn't know I could ask.
its not the answer, but for people who like a basic bandwidth meter for their system, go to the analogx site and get Netstat Live...
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I really can't believe this.
A few days ago I post a good story abount how the new terrorist database system keeps crashing, and get rejected:
2002-08-23 20:52:48 Terrorist database often crashes (articles,news) (rejected)
But somehow, this makes it onto slashdot...
On the other hand, I don't wanna get off topic so why don't you just do like everyone else, and get MRTG and set it to SNMP to your router and get the interface statistics directly.
"A terrorist is someone who has a bomb but doesn't have an air force." -William Blum
>have their pictures' [Grammatical Question: Is this the proper use of the apostrophe in this instance?] plastered on a wall
The Grammar Police answer:
No, plurals do not use apostrophes, and that includes plurals of acronyms. Possessives ("the CEO's mug shot") use apostrophes, and contractions ("he's gotten off with a slap on the wrist") use apostrophes.
It's a common error, but if performed in front of a Grammar Policeman it could incur penalties of having to parse George Bush's speech into English for up to 30 days. Repeat violators would have to show sentence diagrams of text before and after revision.
You just repeated the parent. His answer was, no plurals do not use an apostrophe.