arted/html/cli-configuration-mode.html
about cli.
if u are conUs, and can hit that speedometer test, then I would say its
fairly reliable...even if its WAY off (Which it isnt), it's a constant on
that connection and test for you...
what the mcaffee site does, it throw your browser a file, from a flash app,
and measures the begin and the end (im fairly certain) and does the simple
math...
as jochem said, the ftp test would be the best, and you could certainly
automate that in cf with some code
tw
-----Original Message-----
From: Ray Champagne [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, April 08, 2004 10:44 AM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: Re: bandwidth test
While I appreciate your post, it has left me WAY confused.
First off, I am trying to get a fairly reliable DSL speed number for
different parts of the day. I want to have a aggregate list of speeds that
I can then give to my boss. I also don't want to have to do this by hand,
going to a bandwidth meter site every 15 minutes. I have tried to cfhttp
these various sites, but there is a redirect in the page usually, so that is
obviously not going to work.
I am interested in the second long paragraph below. CLI? What is that? I
am not a Network guy, so I apologize if this is common knowledge...
I was not aware of the issues that you brought up about bandwidth meter
sites. Makes sense, though. If the data is not reliable, then it is
useless to base a decision on it.
Thanks,
Ray
At 10:08 AM 4/8/2004, Jochem van Dieten wrote:
>Ray Champagne said:
> > Does anybody know of a custom tag or way that I can periodically
> > test my bandwidth?
>
>Bandwidth to where? To ConUs? To Europe?
>
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> > We are having a debate here about our DSL speed
>
>That part is easy, all DSL routers/modems have some CLI that gives
>detailed statistics about the connection, including speed, attainable
>speed, SNR, attenuation etc.
>
>
> > and I would like to have a way of having a task running in the
> > background that will ping a bandwidth meter site and save the
> > results to a file/db/etc.
>
>That will only be reliable if the route to the bandwidth metering site
>is identical to the route to the destination site you want to
>communicate with. Furthermore, most bandwidth meter sites are based on
>java(script) and therefore measure just as much the bandwidth as the
>speed of the browser/computer.
>
>FTP'ing a reasonably large file (it should max out the connection for
>30 seconds or more) is still the preferred way to test, with iPerf as a
>second best.
>
>Jochem
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