Re: Line performance

Brian Moore (bem@cmc.net)
Fri, 18 Oct 1996 18:35:24 -0700 (PDT)

> This most certainly not the propper group for this but I am sure someone
> here will have an answer for me. Seeing everyone here has a leased line of
> some sort I have a question on this. Does anyone know of anything that I
> can use that will show me whether or not I have T1 speed to the Internet? I
> am asking becuase my provider said they upgraded my line over the weekend
> and they never told me till three days later.

Ah, they upgraded retroactively when you asked? I wouldn't believe them.

> I have a hard time believing them because I don't think I see any
> performance gains over my old 384K circuit. I have a cisco 2501 router and
> a Kentrox DataSmart CSU. Anything on these that I can see what speed I am
> getting?

A few ways to do it on a Cisco: if you're up to playing with SNMP, look for a
copy of tkined, a nice SNMP (and other protocols, like RPC, etc) network
monitoring toy. Iain Lea, (yes, the guy who wrote tin), also has a nice
'router-stats' program that works with Cisco (only, unless you hack it lots)
routers. It gets the 5 min count a few times an hour and then draws up pretty
charts for it. That's on http://www.scn.de/~iain/router-stats

Of course, they only show the throughput you're USING. If you have a DS3 and
only are piping 56k through it, it's gonna look just like a 56k line... but it
lets you see (realtime for tkined, summarized for router-stats) what you're
pushing through the pipe so at least you know when you're hitting your
capacity.

I don't have a URL for tkined, but you should be able to hit altavista or lycos
or whatever for it... it's a unique enough string. :)