how to monitor my broadband speed all the time

Hi everyone,

I want to know is there anyway to run a script such that it always
monitor my net speed and save it
in a file.

Thanks in advance

dhanu <dhanu0923@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I want to know is there anyway to run a script such that it always
> monitor my net speed and save it
> in a file.

netstat -c -i will show packet counts continuously...
Dunno about speed though.
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On Thu, 26 Jun 2008 13:06:34 +0100, Andrew Halliwell wrote:

> dhanu <dhanu0923@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> I want to know is there anyway to run a script such that it always
>> monitor my net speed and save it
>> in a file.
>
> netstat -c -i will show packet counts continuously... Dunno about speed
> though.

How could you make it listen only on the external interface ?
There doesn't seem to be an option to show just the specified interface.

John Taylor <john@example.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 26 Jun 2008 13:06:34 +0100, Andrew Halliwell wrote:
>
>> dhanu <dhanu0923@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Hi everyone,
>>>
>>> I want to know is there anyway to run a script such that it always
>>> monitor my net speed and save it
>>> in a file.
>>
>> netstat -c -i will show packet counts continuously... Dunno about speed
>> though.
>
> How could you make it listen only on the external interface ?
> There doesn't seem to be an option to show just the specified interface.
>
pipe it through grep?
netstat -c -i | grep eth0
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Andrew Halliwell wrote:
> dhanu <dhanu0923@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> I want to know is there anyway to run a script such that it always
>> monitor my net speed and save it
>> in a file.
>
> netstat -c -i will show packet counts continuously...
> Dunno about speed though.

xosview will show bytes/second continuously; I have mine set to show them
once a second. It merges all your NICs, though (and I think your dial-up if
you have any). It does not log it though.

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dhanu wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I want to know is there anyway to run a script such that it always
> monitor my net speed and save it
> in a file.
>
> Thanks in advance

MRTG works for me.

On Thu, 26 Jun 2008 14:26:49 -0500, Robert Heller <heller@deepsoft.com> wrote:

>At Thu, 26 Jun 2008 04:22:38 -0700 (PDT) dhanu <dhanu0923@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> I want to know is there anyway to run a script such that it always
>> monitor my net speed and save it
>> in a file.
>
>ftp://ftp.deepsoft.com/pub/deepwoods...aph-0.0.tar.gz
>
>You need a tclkit -- download it from:
>
>http://www.equi4.com/tclkit.html
>
>And you need Tcl/Tk installed, along with BWidget and SNIT (SNIT is
>usually part of the tcllib package).
>
>This program displays a bar graph of the activity on a select network
>interface. It monitors /proc/net/dev and considers the delta bytes
>transmitted and bytes received each second for the selected device(s).

I rolled-my-own: http://bugsplatter.mine.nu/netdraw/

Does daily and monthly summaries, source code is there too.

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