Yeah, we try to plug, test, unplug in about 10 seconds if possible.
From: Josh Luthman
Sent: Monday, August 17, 2015 4:16 PM
To: af@afmug.com
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] GigE Testing
What if you plug a dumb switch into the two ports. That should make the
traffic bar go up.
I can't imagine taking every SS to this test... That will take forever.
Josh Luthman
Office: 937-552-2340
Direct: 937-552-2343
1100 Wayne St
Suite 1337
Troy, OH 45373
On Aug 17, 2015 6:12 PM, "Chuck McCown" <ch...@wbmfg.com> wrote:
Good to know. We will see if the router can do a test. If it fails if we
unplug it then it is making the whole trip. Or we can get two of these
routers.
From: George Skorup
Sent: Monday, August 17, 2015 4:07 PM
To: af@afmug.com
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] GigE Testing
My experience with GigE is that rate/duplex auto-negotiation still takes
place on only four wires so you could have a missing pair (or even one wire)
and it would try to run gigabit if your interfaces are stupid.
We had exactly this problem when the 450 APs first came out. They would link
up at 1Gb even though there was only a 10/100 injector in between and obviously
only two data pairs in use. Cambium later turned on the feature in their PHY
that detects if data is actually present on all four pairs or not and adjusts
negotiation accordingly. And that was talking to MikroTik ports, BTW.
So no, I don't think you can rely on the "does it show linked at 1Gbps?" test.
Also, I don't think Josh's suggested MikroTik bandwidth test using a single
router will work. If you run a speedtest to itself, it will only go through the
CPU. Just sayin.
On 8/17/2015 3:16 PM, Chuck McCown wrote:
Would seeing the gigabit color be good enough to say that we have a good
circuit?
From: Josh Luthman
Sent: Monday, August 17, 2015 2:13 PM
To: af@afmug.com
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] GigE Testing
Yup. Get an rb2011. Plug ether1 to 2 with a SS between.
You'll see link, one color is gigabit. Hell you could run a script to
check the rate and print it.
For more testing you could do a MT speed test between it/to itself.
Josh Luthman
Office: 937-552-2340
Direct: 937-552-2343
1100 Wayne St
Suite 1337
Troy, OH 45373
On Aug 17, 2015 4:08 PM, "Chuck McCown" <ch...@wbmfg.com> wrote:
So, could I use two ports of a Mikrotik router and make it do a
bi-directional test?
I presume they have a CLI or do they have a GUI?
-----Original Message----- From: Larry Smith
Sent: Monday, August 17, 2015 2:06 PM
To: af@afmug.com
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] GigE Testing
Most (if not all) the mikrotik routers have a built in Bandwidth test
(server
or client, selectable). Believe they do UDP or TCP, send, receive or
both.
--
Larry Smith
lesm...@ecsis.net
On Mon August 17 2015 15:02, Chuck McCown wrote:
I am pretty ignorant as to the abilities of any Mikrotic device.
Can you enlighten me?
-----Original Message-----
From: Matt
Sent: Monday, August 17, 2015 2:01 PM
To: af@afmug.com
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] GigE Testing
> I am wondering if I got a GigE managed switch, could I see some phy
data
> speeds by looking at its management interface?
Why not just a Mikrotik CCR?
> Demand for our GigE surge suppressor has been growing such that I am
now
> limited by my test station throughput.
>
>
>
> Any ideas on how to test a GigE device go-nogo without buying more big
> dollar testers (which I currently use)?
>
>
>
> It needs to be fast and show speeds in both directions.
>
>
>
> Have considered just putting up a GigE switch and plugging the surge
> suppressor into two ports and seeing if they light. But that sounds
> pretty
> cheap and dirty. Want to see numbers. A laptop talking to another
> laptop with iperf may end up being the solution. Not sure if there
are
> GigE USB NICS so I could do it all on one laptop or not.
>
>
>
> Any other ideas?
