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High-Capacity Bandwidth Testing Software?

Posted by Cliff on from the how-fast-is-your-link dept.

An anonymous reader asks: "I work for an ISP which specializes in high bandwidth (100+ megabit) fiber-based delivery solutions. As with any other ISP we sometimes have to perform troubleshooting with customers who are reporting slow throughput. We currently have a home-grown bandwidth testing server in order to point-to-point test the throughput across our own network. Unfortunately (fortunately), customers have begun purchasing amounts of bandwidth that are capable of exceeding our testing capacity. Given a multi-gigabit network infrastructure and an on-net server with a gigabit Ethernet port, what software packages are available which can reliably test throughput approaching one gigabit? Cross-browser compatibility and 'click-here-to-test' usability should be considerations."

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  1. Network Performance Toolkit by freebase · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The End to End Performance Initiative has a knoppix live CD image you can download that includes test tools that may help. I'm in the process of deploying these tools around my network now.

    I've not tried to push a full gig with them (yet), but they seem to work better than anything else I've found so far...

    http://e2epi.internet2.edu/network-performance-too lkit.html is the URL.

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  2. TPTest works nicely by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The swedish consumer agency has coded a test for bandwidth testing. It works as far as I know up with 1GB connection, but could probably work with much higher speeds. The project is open source.

    http://sourceforge.net/projects/tptest/

    It's a great tool that many of the ISP's in Sweden asks there customers to use before reporting in bad *DSL bandwidth.