On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 09:19:06AM +0300, Mihamina Rakotomandimby wrote: > On 08/15/2012 06:52 AM, Weaver wrote: > >What's the best programme to employ with regard to logging traffic speed > >from my ISP? > > To achieve this, you will have to load continuously your connection > in order to get the max reached.
I'm not entirely sure this is true. If your router has a statistics page (or a telnet interface providing such information), it's possible to use a package such as munin to log[1] the sync rate of your line periodically. This can be graphed for evidential purposes. The sync rate of the line should be sufficient information in most cases. If you're synchronised at, say 8Mb down and 1Mb up, then that should be close to what you can achieve. You can expect a little below that due to overheads, but if you're experiencing significantly worse throughput than that, then there's a problem somewhere in the network. I probably ought to point out, though, that most ISPs advertise their broadband as "up to X meg", and you may find that anything between 56kpbs and that figure are legally acceptable (any slower and it's not broadband). [1] I'll leave it up to the reader to work out how to screen scrape their router's statistics page.
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