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Managing Network bandwidth Jan 11 2012 04:08PM Peter Odigie (peterquid gmail com) (8 replies) Re: Managing Network bandwidth Jan 16 2012 06:36PM security (at) stealthnodes (dot) com [email concealed] (security stealthnodes com) (1 replies) |
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> Hi all!
>
> In my organization, we have had to upgrade our internet bandwidth two
> times last year 2011. The same happened the first and second time,
> after upgrading the connection became quite fast but this lasted for
> just a few weeks and it started dragging again! Our thoughts are in
> two main direction.
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> 1. Maybe the ISP is not telling us the truth, maybe they are not
> really giving us what we are paying for. Is there a way we can
> verify/monitor the bandwidth we are receiving from the ISP? The
> solution can be on either Windows or Linux platform
Well, it's complicated to measure the "real" available bandwidth because
there are too many variables on it: Testing point upload speed, testing
point availability, congestion on current line, etc.
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> 2. Maybe with more bandwidth are staffs are downloading more stuffs -
> non office related stuffs. We had a bandwidth manager some time ago
> but I will not like to get that one up again because it was not
> transparent - people had to logon before being able to use the
> internet. I will like one that can seamlessly manage the network
> bandwidth for each person/department without demanding people to
> login. Again, the solution can be on either Windows or Linux platform.
I suggest the use of Wireshark in order to detect any possible problems
inside your network.
>
> Thanks guys!
Hope this answer helps you somehow. I'm kinda of a noob, so... :)
-haZ
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