[MLB-WIRELESS] Bandwidth tests

[Victor]

I'll be sure to test this tonight or tommorrow myself when I setup my
Antenna. (Just my 19dBi Parabolic)

Bit akward too explaining away the Avon box I received in the Mailroom this
morning. :)
But $70 + Postage for a 19dBi Parabolic... can't complain really.

On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 10:06 AM, <mw at freenet.net.au> wrote:

> Good morning,
>
> Last Friday evening I wrote down an email address for someone I was going
> to
> send details of a bandwidth test tool that could be used to measure the
> real
> throughput to node KBN.
>
> Sorry, I forgot where I wrote it (duh!) and I don't remember your name
> either! :-}
>
> Anyhow, the tool I was talking about is here:
> http://www.mikrotik.com/download/btest.exe
>
> It only works with a Mikrotik at the other end, of course, or you can run
> the server on a pc and test from remote as well.
>
> There is a btest server running on 10.10.65.5, use username: mw, passwd:
> wireless
>
> The test will give you real data throughput in real time, so is a
> reasonable
> measure of link capacity end-to-end.  You can run it in TCP or UDP mode,
> and
> you can set the packet size (or random) to try to determine what sort of
> data rate you can expect for typical applications.
>
> I'll be interested to know what sort of throughput you can measure.
>
> Cheers!
>
> Mike Everest.
> (Node KBN)
>
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-- 
Victor ('Daworm')
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