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<div dir="ltr"><font color="#000000" size="2" face="Tahoma">How about uploading a 1MB file to a known external location, then writing a MRTG plugin that times a download of this file and converts this time to a bps? You need to have a large enough file else
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<div dir="ltr"><font size="2" face="tahoma">Of course this is dependent of the speed of the external website, too, so you need to be sure that THAT is not the bottleneck. Possibly doing this for several locations and averaging the results?</font></div>
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<div dir="ltr"><font size="2" face="tahoma">If you are going to use MRTG, you probably want to run the checks every 5min and use RRDtool, then routers2, mrtg-rrd or 14all to generate the graphs as required.</font></div>
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<div dir="ltr"><font size="2" face="tahoma">Steve</font></div>
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<font size="2" face="Tahoma"><b>From:</b> mrtg-bounces@lists.oetiker.ch [mrtg-bounces@lists.oetiker.ch] On Behalf Of Matt Baer [matt@baerconsult.com]<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Sunday, 4 October 2009 8:07 a.m.<br>
<b>To:</b> mrtg<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [mrtg] Monitoring Internet Speeds<br>
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<div style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: #000000; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Does anyone have a method for monitoring internet speeds? I want to create a graph that will basically run a speed test and graph the results every hour or half hour. I'm not sure on the perl
script or how to create the cron job correctly. I can figure out the timing part, but the script side, I have no clue. Any suggestions?<br>
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