I would like the verify the speed that we are buying from our ISP. I asked earlier in a more complicated post and was told:
Can you help me figure out exactly how to set up the queues to do this (or suggest another way)?
David
Best way to verify is to take popular torrent and download it. - In most cases it will maximize usage of your connection.
Yeah that works. (Bit Torrent idea).
As you’ve quoted me (i think), let me explain in a little more detail.
Assuming you MT is taking a ISP connection and routing it through to a private network(s) create a simple queue that catches all the IP’s of the private network(s). So if your internet connection is routed through to your private network to 192.168.1.0 network then add that as the queue and then set a max limit to 1000M up and down. Now when you see the simple queues find the button that will add more rows and see avg TX / RX and add those. This queue will now show you exactly how much traffic you are getting a pulling.
The idea behind the torrent download is very similar in principle. Basically we all know that you need > one connection to max out any transfer speeds (up or down). The torrent download will create multiple connections to saturate the network connection from a single computer (I don’t use QOS at home and when I download a torrent I take 100% of the bandwidth, to the irritation of every other internet users!). Using the queues on the MT will do the similar but bunch together all the requests from private network to internet and thus ‘should’ saturate your internet connection.
Either works fine, but I happen to think that using the MT queue solution is good because you get a real time network overview of what your users are current getting their hands on.
Josh
Oh, also to get an idea of the console commands to create queues though not specifically written for this example;