[plug] Bandwidth testing

[Mark B]

you are asking for UDP responses, it's a sessionless connection.  unless you have a daemon sitting somewhere responding to your UDP packets, then you could do some monitoring..

with vid confrencing, change the stream to a lower/higher quality, and do your testing from there.
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Carl Gherardi 
  To: Mark B 
  Sent: Thursday, September 15, 2005 11:52 AM
  Subject: Re: [plug] Bandwidth testing


  ?

  I use rrdtool few a few things, including my bandwidth monitoring backend, but it has no network functionality.

  Basically I need an app to display politely to a non technical user that video conferencing cant be run over the link they are proposing.

  Carl


  On 9/14/05, Mark B <mark at tophits.com.au> wrote: 
    rrdtool
      ----- Original Message ----- 
      From: Carl Gherardi 
      To: plug at plug.org.au 
      Sent: Wednesday, September 14, 2005 5:19 PM
      Subject: [plug] Bandwidth testing 


      Hey Guys,

      I'd like to test a link for maximum bandwidth before losing packets with udp.

      Ideally the output would look something like:
      Sending packets at 10Kb/s (5 seconds) - no packets lost, increasing rate
      Sending packets at 13Kb/s (5 seconds) - no packets lost, increasing rate
      Sending packets at 16Kb/s (5 seconds) - 2 packets lost, decreasing rate
      Sending packets at 14Kb/s ......

      What are people on the list using for bandwidth testing?

      Carl



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