Clarification regarding Bandwidth upgradtion

[Raja_D]

Hi,

A 15Mb mpls link is upgraded to 50Mb link by the service provider and the same thing was confirmed by the provider after the upgradation was done from their end. Now from the CE end router, what would be post checks/commands that can be performed on the CE end router to view the results of the 50MB upgradation. I need this clarification as we had the same thing done recently in our Network infrastructure where I was assuming that it could be tested only when there is high amount of traffic passing through that link.

Kindly advise.

[Reza Sharifi]

Hi,

If you want to test to see if your bandwidth is close to 50Mb, you can use 2 laptops (one on each side of the MPLS connection) and use iperf to transfer files between the 2 laptops.

https://iperf.fr/iperf-download.php

That will give you an idea of how much you can push the MPLS circuit and your bandwidth limitation.

HTH

[Ganesh Hariharan]

Hello ,

You can use WAN killer software to test the link for bandwidth capacity or use FTP to test the capacity of the link as ftp is bandwidth greedy protocol.

Hope it Help..

-GI