High-Capacity Bandwidth Testing Software? 32
An anonymous reader asks: "I work for an ISP which specializes in high bandwidth (100+ megabit) fiber-based delivery solutions. As with any other ISP we sometimes have to perform troubleshooting with customers who are reporting slow throughput. We currently have a home-grown bandwidth testing server in order to point-to-point test the throughput across our own network. Unfortunately (fortunately), customers have begun purchasing amounts of bandwidth that are capable of exceeding our testing capacity. Given a multi-gigabit network infrastructure and an on-net server with a gigabit Ethernet port, what software packages are available which can reliably test throughput approaching one gigabit? Cross-browser compatibility and 'click-here-to-test' usability should be considerations."
Network Performance Toolkit (Score:3, Interesting)
I've not tried to push a full gig with them (yet), but they seem to work better than anything else I've found so far...
http://e2epi.internet2.edu/network-performance-to
TPTest works nicely (Score:2, Interesting)
http://sourceforge.net/projects/tptest/ [sourceforge.net]
It's a great tool that many of the ISP's in Sweden asks there customers to use before reporting in bad *DSL bandwidth.