I have been struggling with my internet provider for a month now. Our bandwidth is too low for the price we are paying for our internet contract.  Is there any method/tool/program to monitor my internet bandwidth (download speed) constantly for like a day or at least for 6-8 hours?   I would like to make an excel or pdf from the result log so I can show them to proof that they service is too low.  The one-time measurements not good enough because sadly all the time when I contact their support our connection works well.  Thanks in advance.
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Right now I'm in the process of possibly switching from a Cable provider to a DSL provider.  I  have both connections live, and before I cancel one or the other, I'm wanting to do some exhaustive testing of the internet connection.  I have three major questions:   What are some approaches that I can quantitatively test the speeds (both up and down) and quality of my internet connections (ping, time connection is down, etc,.)?   Are there other consideration that should be taken when testing an internet connection?   Are there any tools that can do this automatically and capture results?   Note: if you decide to suggest a piece of software, please  in doing so.  Also I'm looking to be able to save any data from the software for detailed analysis and comparison  Overall, I'm looking to compare the two connections over multiple periods of time such as peak hours (1600 - 2100 in my area), and with different loads such as streaming movies, uploading files, etc,.         This question was Featured in the blog!    Read the  for more details or  yourself
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For the past several years, I have been using a simple software bandwidth monitor on my computer to keep track of my monthly bandwidth usage. It has worked fine (more or less; the numbers are slightly off from my ISP’s online tracker).  This works fine for a single computer, but when my mother connects her laptop to my router or if I use  second computer, then monitor and managing bandwidth becomes much more difficult.  I considered running a bandwidth monitoring software on each system that is to connected and (somehow) transferring the logs to a central system to (again somehow) be incorporated into a central log file, but not surprisingly, this is a nightmare at best.  I also thought about a router solution (as has been mentioned, but it would need to be easy to use and customize).  Is there an easy way to monitor and log total bandwidth usage (ie from multiple systems)? It should not require all the systems to be monitored to be on at any specific time, nor having all systems connect through another one (i.e., they should be able to connect directly to the Internet connection).  Also, it should be able to differentiate between local and remote traffic so that transferring files between two local systems does not count towards Internet bandwidth usage.
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What is the simplest way to check my actual broadband connection speed?
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I want to know if there exists any command line option or GUI tool (Ubuntu 11.10) so that I can measure the strength of wireless signal at a given location. I have a house where the wireless is not easily accessible at all corners I want to know at which corners or rooms the signal is weak.
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What DLNA server program should I choose and how do I set it up? It is an absolute requirement that it doesn't take a lot of resources since it will be running on a 500 MHz machine.  There seems to be quite a few server programs and I don't have any experience with these userfriendly auto-detecet protocols/services.  Btw, the server doesn't have a GUI...
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I have used dial-up and/or broadband services from many service providers (in India) and one thing I noted is that the upload bandwidth is lower than the download bandwidth.  Is there any reason for this?
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How to control bandwidth upload and download per user or each ip/mac? i tried squid3.0stable25 with delay_pools but its not work. is it really possible to control bandwidth for each host by squid? my isp have 400 more host but they are using open bw. i want to limit there upload and download how to do it? i also try htb but setup failed or not working and didn't get perfect example. please help!!
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My internet connection is very slow. I suspect someone in the network is using a BitTorrent client which takes huge amount of bandwidth.  Is there a way to detect who is using my bandwidth (network sniffing tools etc)?  I should have pointed out that I have no access to the router, what I am looking for is a way of detecting someone's MAC/IP if she uses Bittorrent.
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I have to a get a very simple data entry website up and running. This website will be accessed by only a few people at a time (at most), but usually only one person, and not very frequently - maybe a coupel hours at a time, not every day.  I really don't want to pay for hosting if I don't have to. I have AT&amp;T U-Verse Internet Service.   How feasible is it for me to setup a simple Windows/IIS website on my home network that can be accessed publicly? What's the minimum Internet speed I would need? How can make sure that the IP Address for the public website is static, so I can setup my DNS and forget about it?  Any additional thoughts or suggestions on this type of setup would be greatly appreciated. If this is not feasible, or easy, I will likely just go with a hosting service, and I already have one picked out, so I don't need any suggestions for this.
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Is there a way to benchmark how fast my router is connected to my PC, independent of the internet?  I've had slower-than-usual internet-based benchmarks, and I'm having a hard time figuring out if it's because of a bad router-to-PC connection (interference, bad signal, etc.) or if it's indeed because my internet is actually slower.
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Whenever I am downloading packages using Ubuntu Software Center (or any package manager for that matter), my Internet connection slows to an absolute crawl. In fact, most requests timeout.  Is there a way to limit the bandwidth that Software Center uses when downloading packages?
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This is a question to experienced people that might help us shed some light on the issue.   We noticed a very strange behavior on our site, in Google Analytics. Some dude from Finland, namely, from Kouvola city is hitting one of our pages - only one page on our site, 'bout a hundred times per day, all with an average bounce rate of 90%+...  This is causing our overall bounce rate to go up by 1 to 3% per day... which is very disturbing.. since we're trying to do our best in order to keep it as low as possible. And obviously having it jumped from ~24% to 27%, just because of that crazy dude is not making us happy at all... We tried implementing a geo-targeted script in order to catch this particular visitor and deliver him a juicy message, and it seemed like it helped in the beginning, it has stopped for a day or two, but now he's back...   The geo-targeted script was also logging all IP addresses for page requests originating from Finland in order to find out more details and (in order to block them on the server level, later).. but thing is, it was all mainly cable or DSL connections with various, but not constantly repeating IPs... we are all wondering what is he up to really ?   I think that this page should be kept updated with ideas on how to combat this and perhaps someone could also shed light on what it might be ? What is the reason for doing this "bounce-rate attack", as I call it?  There was a similar question asked on stackoverflow earlier, with no meaningful answer - here -
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I can see the data transferred (internet Download/Upload) in the current session from the System Monitor. But I want something that keeps track of all the data transferred and I can see how much data was used in a month or two. Preferably a GUI tool.
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We are running two production servers with Apache 2 and MySQL. I am looking for a reliable way of monitoring our load, stability and uptime.  I have come across , but are there better alternatives?
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When am downloading any link that's cannot be resumed, if my Internet connection gets disconnected then download link stops working.  What can I do to resume the download from the link?
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There are many answers here detailing programs that will monitor and log internet usage for a pc, but I need that usage to be logged and broken down, detailing which applications consumed that data.  I've noted there are several that give a real-time feed of each application's data usage (NetLimiter, Win7 Resource Monitor), but I can't find one that will log such data.  Anyone know of one?  Need to track down which program is using up a friend's bandwidth!
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My question is a bit general but I assume there has to be a good, specific answer to my problem.  I, like many, am beginning to wonder if my ISP is throttling my home internet connection.  I'm not so quick to judge because throttling accusations are often unwarranted or unsupported and often seem a bit conspiratorial in nature.  I'm not yet ready to make that conclusion.  In my case, my wife and I get our internet through our cable provider, and we have the top-tier, home-based offering for our area. We have found that very consistently, our ability to surf the web between 12:30PM and 2:00PM completely disappears.  I understand that this is typically lunch time but, from what I can gather, this isn't considered peak time.  Furthermore, we often stream Netflix in the afternoon during what is certainly peak-usage times (8:00PM-10:00PM) and we never have any trouble.    If this is an issue with network load, we should have trouble in the evening, not in the early afternoon.  What could be causing this mid-day bottlenecking?  This happens every single day, and it happens on every device (we have over 7 phones, tablets, PCs, etc. and they all have the same problem.)  Could this realistically be an issue with ISP throttling?  Could it be something else and are there steps that I can take to personally troubleshoot or diagnose the problem?    Regardless, this is extremely annoying and I'd like to do a bit of personal troubleshooting before I call up the ISP and ask them for a bit of customer service.  Our ISP's customer service is horrible and they've never been of much help.  If I am going to try and confront them on this issue, I would like to know as much as I possibly can about the nature of the problem.    Any tips, strategies or pointers from those who are well informed would be much appreciated.