Re: is there a utillity...?

2010-11-08 Thread Duncan Young
On Wed, 3 Nov 2010 03:55:28 pm Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Nov 02), Gary Kline said: On Wed, Nov 03, 2010 at 01:44:37AM +, Bruce Cran wrote: On Wednesday 03 November 2010 01:17:00 Gary Kline wrote: The Bps Down is supposed to me 1M. Up is 864Kbps. I spent

Re: is there a utillity...?

2010-11-03 Thread Bas Smeelen
On 11/03/2010 06:55 AM, Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Nov 02), Gary Kline said: On Wed, Nov 03, 2010 at 01:44:37AM +, Bruce Cran wrote: On Wednesday 03 November 2010 01:17:00 Gary Kline wrote: The Bps Down is supposed to me 1M. Up is 864Kbps. I spent hours googling around

Re: is there a utillity...?

2010-11-03 Thread Bas Smeelen
On 11/03/2010 06:55 AM, Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Nov 02), Gary Kline said: On Wed, Nov 03, 2010 at 01:44:37AM +, Bruce Cran wrote: On Wednesday 03 November 2010 01:17:00 Gary Kline wrote: The Bps Down is supposed to me 1M. Up is 864Kbps. I spent hours googling around

Re: is there a utillity...?

2010-11-03 Thread Adam Vande More
On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 1:36 AM, Bas Smeelen b.smee...@ose.nl wrote: Or in Gnome put the system monitor thing on a panel I used to use vnstat for this on servers Path:/usr/ports/net/vnstat Info:A console-based network traffic monitor If you want to avoid proc, try net-mgmt/iftop or

Re: is there a utillity...?

2010-11-03 Thread Gary Kline
On Wed, Nov 03, 2010 at 12:55:28AM -0500, Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Nov 02), Gary Kline said: On Wed, Nov 03, 2010 at 01:44:37AM +, Bruce Cran wrote: On Wednesday 03 November 2010 01:17:00 Gary Kline wrote: The Bps Down is supposed to me 1M. Up is 864Kbps. I

Re: is there a utillity...?

2010-11-03 Thread Gary Kline
On Wed, Nov 03, 2010 at 12:55:28AM -0500, Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Nov 02), Gary Kline said: On Wed, Nov 03, 2010 at 01:44:37AM +, Bruce Cran wrote: On Wednesday 03 November 2010 01:17:00 Gary Kline wrote: The Bps Down is supposed to me 1M. Up is 864Kbps. I

Re: is there a utillity...?

2010-11-03 Thread Gary Kline
On Wed, Nov 03, 2010 at 07:33:08AM +0100, Bas Smeelen wrote: On 11/03/2010 06:55 AM, Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Nov 02), Gary Kline said: On Wed, Nov 03, 2010 at 01:44:37AM +, Bruce Cran wrote: On Wednesday 03 November 2010 01:17:00 Gary Kline wrote: The Bps Down is

Re: is there a utillity...?

2010-11-03 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Nov 03), Gary Kline said: On Wed, Nov 03, 2010 at 12:55:28AM -0500, Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Nov 02), Gary Kline said: On Wed, Nov 03, 2010 at 01:44:37AM +, Bruce Cran wrote: On Wednesday 03 November 2010 01:17:00 Gary Kline wrote: The Bps Down

Re: is there a utillity...?

2010-11-03 Thread Gary Kline
On Wed, Nov 03, 2010 at 01:54:01AM -0500, Adam Vande More wrote: On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 1:36 AM, Bas Smeelen b.smee...@ose.nl wrote: Or in Gnome put the system monitor thing on a panel I used to use vnstat for this on servers Path:/usr/ports/net/vnstat Info:A console-based

Re: is there a utillity...?

2010-11-02 Thread RW
On Mon, 1 Nov 2010 20:42:06 -0700 Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: People, is there a utility to give me the rate of bps that I am _supposed_ to be getting from my telco DSL? If your modem or router has some means of configuring it, typically via a browser, you can get usually get that

Re: is there a utillity...?

2010-11-02 Thread Bruce Cran
On Tuesday 02 November 2010 03:42:06 Gary Kline wrote: People, is there a utility to give me the rate of bps that I am _supposed_ to be getting from my telco DSL? You can normally find out what rate the modem has synced to your ISP at - that should tell you the theoretical maximum raw

Re: is there a utillity...?

2010-11-02 Thread Gary Kline
On Tue, Nov 02, 2010 at 08:50:03AM +, RW wrote: On Mon, 1 Nov 2010 20:42:06 -0700 Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: People, is there a utility to give me the rate of bps that I am _supposed_ to be getting from my telco DSL? If your modem or router has some means of configuring it,

Re: is there a utillity...?

2010-11-02 Thread Bruce Cran
On Wednesday 03 November 2010 01:17:00 Gary Kline wrote: The Bps Down is supposed to me 1M. Up is 864Kbps. I spent hours googling around and trying things. So far, not much. ---It occured that I _might_ be geting the full thru-put; that it is data that is flowing

Re: is there a utillity...?

2010-11-02 Thread Gary Kline
On Wed, Nov 03, 2010 at 01:44:37AM +, Bruce Cran wrote: On Wednesday 03 November 2010 01:17:00 Gary Kline wrote: The Bps Down is supposed to me 1M. Up is 864Kbps. I spent hours googling around and trying things. So far, not much. ---It occured that I _might_ be geting

Re: is there a utillity...?

2010-11-02 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Nov 02), Gary Kline said: On Wed, Nov 03, 2010 at 01:44:37AM +, Bruce Cran wrote: On Wednesday 03 November 2010 01:17:00 Gary Kline wrote: The Bps Down is supposed to me 1M. Up is 864Kbps. I spent hours googling around and trying things. So far, not much.

is there a utillity...?

2010-11-01 Thread Gary Kline
People, is there a utility to give me the rate of bps that I am _supposed_ to be getting from my telco DSL? tia, gary -- Gary Kline kl...@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix The 7.90a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org/index.php An Open

Re: is there a utillity...?

2010-11-01 Thread Antonio Olivares
On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 10:42 PM, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: People, is there a utility to give me the rate of bps that I am _supposed_ to be getting from my telco DSL? tia, gary --  Gary Kline  kl...@thought.org  http://www.thought.org  Public Service Unix    The 7.90a release

Re: is there a utillity...?

2010-11-01 Thread Ryan Coleman
Gary, Keep in mind that their rate and your rate WILL be different. At least a 10% difference, due to TCP overhead. So make sure you test on already compressed data (like an MP3 stream). The more compressed the data the less likely it will go through protocol compression en route. -- Ryan On

Re: is there a utillity...?

2010-11-01 Thread justin v
On Mon, 01 Nov 2010 20:48:01 -0700, Antonio Olivares olivares14...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 10:42 PM, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: People, is there a utility to give me the rate of bps that I am _supposed_ to be getting from my telco DSL? tia, gary -- Gary Kline