Zach: > > I am looking for accurate methods of measuring broadband speed, > particularly for a 728 kbps / 128 kbps DSL line.
To monitor interface throughput, I often use nload. It shows an ASCII graph and cur/max/avg bandwith usage. > I want to see how close my real world throughput gets to the > advertised bandwidth. Also what is the theoretical maximum and minimum > ping (average return time) and lag (standard deviation of the ping) This heavily depends on the connection to your house, I think. Everything under 100ms is acceptable for me. > for such a DSL line? Is there any sort of MTU, routing table or TCP/IP > stack changes I can make (if so please explain how) to increase my > latency, lag and packet loss? I use Debian lenny with a 2.6.18 kernel. > Oh yes I will have a static IP address. pppd should handle things like MTU and setting up routes. Latency and packet loss are basically out of your control (until you have a gross misconfiguration on your side). J. -- As a child I pulled the legs from a spider. [Agree] [Disagree] <http://www.slowlydownward.com/NODATA/data_enter2.html>
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