Monitor Net Traffic

[FMcooke at comcast.net]

Hi all,
dose any one know where I can get educational program that can be use on ubuntu OS for Middle and High School.

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Fred & Musu C

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From: Derek Broughton <news at pointerstop.ca> 

> Mark Haney wrote: 
> 
> > John Hubbard wrote: 
> >> Here is my problem; I want to know what kind of bandwidth my isp is 
> >> really giving me. I have looked at a few different speed tests and I 
> >> get different results from them, and they often seem far faster than 
> >> what I actually get. Now I realize that the bottle neck might be coming 
> >> from whoever is serving the content, but I am not sure. 
> >> So the question is; is there any way to generate any kind of report of 
> >> my bandwidth? I only care about how fast I am able to get data when I 
> >> am trying to download it. Often the connection is not being used at all 
> >> and I don't want to factor that in. 
> >> Any thoughts? 
> >> 
> > 
> > I deal with this a lot, working for a regional ISP. The problem with 
> > most speed test sites is that they preload (some not all) the file they 
> > use to test (be it an image or whatever) to exaggerate the results. 
> 
> Exaggerate? It's just common sense. If the file isn't preloaded, you're 
> testing server speed as well as network speed. You want to reduce as much 
> as possible any effect the server has on the connection. 
> 
> > This 
> > has been a common problem I've seen over the last few years. 
> > 
> > It's been our choice to have a ftp server sitting on our end of the 
> > network and have the customer ftp down various size empty files to test 
> > the bandwidth used. 
> 
> Which is certainly a fine test of the combination of your network and your 
> FTP server - all ISPs should offer such service. 
> 
> of course, empty files can't really have different 
> sizes 
> -- 
> derek 
> 
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