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Continual Speed Monitoring

  • 29-08-2010 6:01pm
    #1
    Discodog
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,907 ✭✭✭✭


    My Eircom broadband is starting to fluctuate from the usual 6mb (7mb connection) down to 1 mb. I only notice the slower speeds when I am viewing video etc or when I do a speedtest.

    Are there any programs/widgets out there that monitor your connection speed on an ongoing basis maybe with an alert if it drops below a preset value ?.


Comments

  • #2
    bmw535d
    Registered Users Posts: 1,160 ✭✭✭bmw535d


    i dont think so because in order to test what speed your getting it would have to be downloading constantly.meaning you couldn't do much else.


  • #3
    Discodog
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,907 ✭✭✭✭Discodog


    That was kind of what I thought. Maybe it could be programmed to ping every 10 mins ?


  • #4
    bmw535d
    Registered Users Posts: 1,160 ✭✭✭bmw535d


    Discodog wrote: »
    That was kind of what I thought. Maybe it could be programmed to ping every 10 mins ?

    ping is a whole different thing to download speed..you need to find out why your speed is dropping.


  • #5
    Discodog
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,907 ✭✭✭✭Discodog


    Pretty sure that it's contention. Happening at peak times. Eircom will end up like 3 where you could only get broadband at 3 am !.


  • #6
    thund3rbird_
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 866 ✭✭✭thund3rbird_


    Discodog wrote: »
    My Eircom broadband is starting to fluctuate from the usual 6mb (7mb connection) down to 1 mb. I only notice the slower speeds when I am viewing video etc or when I do a speedtest.

    Are there any programs/widgets out there that monitor your connection speed on an ongoing basis maybe with an alert if it drops below a preset value ?.

    you dont mention what router you have but this program might help

    http://www.vwlowen.co.uk/internet/files.htm

    you can graph the sync speed to see if that's changing - throughput speed may be what's changing which you will only see on speedtests


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