Re^2: How to monitor internet speed in real time?

http://speedcheck2.optonline.net/speedcheck/speedcheck.html This link shows first roadmap to what I want to implement. In disassembly I find out that it uses javascript and uses Microsoft API. I am not clear about the algorithm implemented. But sure it checks the rate of packets flow. What I really want to do is to somehow monitor the performance of my Cable Operator and store the information in a database. I am able to execute netstat, but trying hard to find a way to use those information contained in the packets. Please enlighten me in this area. And it is my personal belief or you can say it a jingoism that Perl is a better solution provider then that idiotically slow java and javascript

cheers Rock

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Re^3: How to monitor internet speed in real time? by ambrus (Abbot) on Oct 06, 2004 at 16:06 UTC
I couldn't view the webpage you've given, so I don't know if it mesures the network usage of your computer or only the speed of the connection of your computer and their server (which can be a good approximation of your internet access bandwidth if you're not downloading anything the same time you're running the speedcheck). Netstat is not relevant here. I meant to say ifconfig from the start, but I was tired and said netstat instead in the last paragraph. About ifconfig. On my system it prints a line like this about the eth0 interface. `RX bytes:466213 (455.2 Kb) TX bytes:40233 (39.2 Kb)` [download] (I've just started my machine so that's why the numbers are so small.) I remember that some older versions of ifconfig does not print this info, probably because this feature was not available in older (2.2) kernels. The command corresponding to ifconfig in windows is `ipconfig` but I don't know whether it prints this info.	[reply] [d/l] [select]

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Re^3: How to monitor internet speed in real time?
by ambrus (Abbot) on Oct 06, 2004 at 16:06 UTC

I couldn't view the webpage you've given, so I don't know if it mesures the network usage of your computer or only the speed of the connection of your computer and their server (which can be a good approximation of your internet access bandwidth if you're not downloading anything the same time you're running the speedcheck).

Netstat is not relevant here. I meant to say ifconfig from the start, but I was tired and said netstat instead in the last paragraph.

About ifconfig. On my system it prints a line like this about the eth0 interface.

          RX bytes:466213 (455.2 Kb)  TX bytes:40233 (39.2 Kb)
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ipconfig

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