ADSL speed testing on Cisco 837

[mitchen]

Hi, we have a number of sites connected over ADSL with Cisco 837s at each site.

I would like to determine the speed of connection we typically get at each site. Is there any way to get a good indication from the Cisco 837 itself?

I've run the command "show dsl interface atm0" but, to be honest, I'm not entirely sure what the output of this command is telling me. And I can't find any decent references for it either.

Any suggestions?

[spremkumar]

hi

I feel you can check out the speed parameter getting displayed once you execute the command.

Speed (kbps): 0 8128 0 864

regds

[mitchen]

Hi,

thanks. But is this just the speed it has synced at, rather than the actual download speeds I'm getting? (I say this because I've never seen this value change - even when performance seems particularly slow!)

Also, some of the other output on the show dsl interface atm0 status, what does it mean, in practice?

For example, some of our sites have entries such as:

Capacity Used: 97% 60%

Should we be concerned that these figures are so high?

What about the noise margin, output power and attenuation values? What should we be looking for ideally and what values for these should cause us concern?

Thanks.