Measuring 5 Gbps

[gasparmenendez]

Hi folks,

one of my two ISP´s told me today that he had increased my service to 5 Gbps...I´m actually using 3.5 Gbps top on these days but I think next month I´m going to need more than 4 Gbps, so I asked him for the 5 Gbps. Is there anyway or any equipment that allow me to know if I really have the 5 Gbps available??

Thanks a lot in advance. BR.

[Mark Malone · Accepted solution]

Your ISP should be able to provide you that , whenever we go live with new circuits we ask them to prove to us that the circuit is running at 5gps and can handle the throughput they have tools usually to do this , we use multiple ISPs globally and they all have provided this on request some with small charge
if not your option would be to use a traffic generator physical ones are far from cheap or else something like iperf test end to end across the circuit to measure it

[Joseph W. Doherty]

Just a note to add to what Mark says, if you use a software tool, like iperf, to generate 5 Gbps of traffic, you might find hosts struggling with that. If so, you might need to split the load across multiple hosts where their aggregate pushes the volume you want to check.

[johnlloyd_13]

hi,

if iperf CLI is not your thing, there's a GUI called jperf and a tool called WAN killer from solarwinds.

see helpful link:

http://wannabelab.blogspot.com/2017/08/performing-iperf-jperf-and-wan-killer.html

[gasparmenendez]

thanks @johnlloyd_13, I'm going to check it!