First of all, thanks in advance for reading my thread.....
I work I am carrying out a task to test the speed of network links which connect various offices around the county to our data centre in HQ. I have experience in networking but this was quite a while ago and since I have mostly been into software development so have lost touch with many of the best tools/techniques used for measuring 'network speed'. We have both fibre and satellite WAN links so it is important that I'm not only considering the bandwidth of the link but also the latency which will hopefully paint a more realistic picture of the overall speed. I will also be taking network load into account and will be taking average data throughput measurments from various routers.
My question is however... Is there a single tool or suite of tools that I can run on my laptop that will ping the server I'm interested in and measure things such as bandwidth and latency and anything else I might not have considered? I know I can grasp a lot of information using ping and traceroute however I was hoping for a particular tool that will do all the hard work and just provide me with the results I need.
Has anyone got any suggestions? Any help/thoughts would be greatly appreciated.
I work I am carrying out a task to test the speed of network links which connect various offices around the county to our data centre in HQ. I have experience in networking but this was quite a while ago and since I have mostly been into software development so have lost touch with many of the best tools/techniques used for measuring 'network speed'. We have both fibre and satellite WAN links so it is important that I'm not only considering the bandwidth of the link but also the latency which will hopefully paint a more realistic picture of the overall speed. I will also be taking network load into account and will be taking average data throughput measurments from various routers.
My question is however... Is there a single tool or suite of tools that I can run on my laptop that will ping the server I'm interested in and measure things such as bandwidth and latency and anything else I might not have considered? I know I can grasp a lot of information using ping and traceroute however I was hoping for a particular tool that will do all the hard work and just provide me with the results I need.
Has anyone got any suggestions? Any help/thoughts would be greatly appreciated.