How do you monitor bandwidth

Ok I found a few things after a full day back at work. The ones i'm focusing on is... Iperf

dast.nlanr.net/Projects/Iperf/

Its small simple direct lots of easily configured options and easy to compile code for linux/unix and windows. And has a multi platform java front end (jperf) that runs pretty smooth.

Start one end as a server, the other end as a client, and BAMN get the bandwidth. First inpression is very good, but i need to mess around more and in different situations.

quick peek at the output just running default...
[code:1]C:\Documents and Settings\twoods>iperf -c 192.168.1.4

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Client connecting to 192.168.1.4, TCP port 5001
TCP window size: 8.00 KByte (default)

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[1912] local 192.168.1.7 port 3439 connected with 192.168.1.4 port 5001
[ ID] Interval Transfer Bandwidth
[1912] 0.0-10.0 sec 95.5 MBytes 80.0 Mbits/sec

C:\Documents and Settings\twoods>
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and jperf



I'll be putting it through its paces over the next few days and weeks.

Awesome! I have heard of iperf and actually think I have it downloaded, but I have not used it. I will look into it.

Iperf looks good. We tried several; there used to be one you could get called QCheck, and we wrote our own simple one using Perl scripts

Make sure to get Jperf 2.0 or higher.. the older one is bunk.

I downloaded 2.0