Network monitoring tools
is a list of commercial and non commercial network monitoring tools
Immediately useful tools
Below is a list of utilities, demos and web sites with immediately useful information. Try them!
Subnets at SLAC*
Traceroute
Traceroute from SLAC to a target host
.
Tracepath from SLAC to a target host
(finds the route and also the maximum packet size (MTU))
Traceroute from elsewhere in the world to a targe
t
Visual traceroute
,
Autonomous Systems (AS)
Find the AS for a host
.
Ping:
a host from SLAC
,
a host from Italy
regions from my laptop
a java demo that pings hosts around the world
PingER WAN Monitoring
DNS lookup time
to a chosen host from around the world.
Test my network configuration from:
Stanford
test the reliablity and operational status of your desktop computer and network connection by sending data between your computer and this remote NDT server.
MLab Internet measurement tools
Web speed test
,
web page link checker plugin for Chrome
Internet speed measurement:
Abeltronica dynamic measurement
Akamai
maps of realtime traffic, latency, and attacks
Broadband speed test
, (also
test from SLAC
) free broadband internet connection speed test for both download and upload speeds.
Bandwidth test
Bandwidth estimation
calculates the theoretical maximum TCP throughput based on the specified parameters.
National Broadband map
Ookla world maps of broadband performance by country etc.
Speed vs distance
Speedtest
based on millions of recent test results from Speedtest.net, this index compares and ranks consumer download speeds around the globe.
Speedtest dynamic measurement
WAN throughput calculator
used to measure the effect that bandwidth, latency and packet loss have on effective WAN throughput
Real time world map of tweeting activity.
Geo Location
GeoIPTools
,
TULIP
Information on my IP address
Latitude Longitude of another site
World Internet perfromance:
"Movie" chart of Internet performance from 1998 thru last year
and a
video showing how to use it
Internet Congestion Wave
(46MB video file)
,
(15MB video file)
Hourly latency measurements for 2005
African Internet Weather
also on
YouTube
"
Tuning
Fasterdata
Check Windows settings
Tuning Linux for TCP performance