[ale] Latency on my DSL line

[Adrin]

If money is no object you can get a trail version of ixchariot. You will
probably have to talk to a sales person.
http://www.ixiacom.com/products/display?skey=ixchariot 

Sadly I don't know of a open source method, Wish I did.

Adrin



On Wed, 2007-11-07 at 20:24 -0500, Christopher Fowler wrote:
> Lately I've been seeing slowness at night on my DSL line (SpeedFactory).
> I assume that for normal people that use the web 99% of the time this
> would not bee seen.  I use SSH most of the time.  Around 7pm typing on
> remote systems becomes a pain due to latency.  My wife has complained
> that the ABC and Disney sites that play videos are choppy.
> dslspeedtest.com does not show good things either at night.  BellSouth
> has done some testing and see no packet loss.  I'm not sure how they are
> doing that.
> 
> My idea is to run a program in linux and in linux at our data center to
> do a test between the two machines.  I will take that output and place
> it in a rrd file and I can graph what is going on.  Any ideas on what
> program to use?  I need text output so I can parse the values via perl.
> 
> Chris
> 
> 
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