[GTALUG] Monitor for Internet Hosting Speed?

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Wed, Dec 10, 2014 at 10:47:03AM -0500, phiscock at ee.ryerson.ca wrote:
> Most of the time this Teksaavy connection is fine, but on occasion it
> slows to the point of being unusable. Can anyone suggest a program that
> will log connection speed? A scrolling graph and ascii record would be
> perfect.

Connection speed to where though?

You would have to do something that talks to a system somewhere else and
measures the current speed between those two places.  Hopefully you can
pick something where your connection locally is the slowest link and
hence the one measured.

> There are lots of programs listed in response to a Google search, such as
> this one:
> http://dynacont.net/documentation/linux/network_monitoring/
> 
> But it would greatly help to hear what others in this group recommend.
> I'm running Linux Mint.

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Len Sorensen