Can Anyone Recommend A Good Free Network/bandwidth Logger?

[ozymandious]

can anyone recommend a good free network/bandwidth logger? I want to complain to my isp about their crap speed as of late.

Something simple that can run in the background and say take a snap shot every 5 min (or customizable time interval)

and out put to a text log or excel doc my time stamp, ip, dl and upld speed.

My ADSL best ever ping on speedtest.net was about 3600mbps, now for the past 4 days it's barely been over 200 and that's just testing to BKK servers.

[NHJ]

sounds like you forgot to pay the previous bill.

[Prasert]

MRTG

it's freeware, works with snmp (which your router probably supports), but... you'll have to read to manual.

After getting it up and running, it checks a device every 5 minutes and graphs the output in a png file.

Runs best on unix (perl), is CLI based (no GUI!) and it's the most used graphing tool worldwide.

[stumonster]

My ADSL best ever ping on speedtest.net was about 3600mbps, .

thats some big packets you're using there

are you testing to local servers when using speedtest.net ?

I have noticed True upload speeds are about 1/10th what is supposed to be there lately , but the D/load speed seeds to be within spec.

[ozymandious]

My ADSL best ever ping on speedtest.net was about 3600mbps, .

thats some big packets you're using there

are you testing to local servers when using speedtest.net ?

I have noticed True upload speeds are about 1/10th what is supposed to be there lately , but the D/load speed seeds to be within spec.

yes that was the speedtest.net test to BKK from Phuket (personal best ever) the other test that I run frequently is the test to SF California and i usually get 1,500+kbps to there or at least 512

[ozymandious]

Update to my search

Two friends keyed me into to different solutions.

One is to go to www.dslreports.com and go to tools. Wow there's a mother load of tools there!

the other solution a friend sent me was to go and download a network logger here

http://www.paessler.com/prtg7/download

PRTG Network Monitor

I'll try these two out before I go hacking my router

Maybe this info can help out other users as well

Edited November 17, 2008 by ozymandious