testing throughput through wan link

[carl_townshend]

hi all

we have got a 2mbs wan link between 2 sites over a provider mpls cloud, Users are complaining of poor performance over the line. Is there any way I can test the throughput of this line myself using some software

cheers

Carl

[royalblues]

Try Iperf

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iperf

http://www.noc.ucf.edu/Tools/Iperf/

Narayan

[garilynni]

Here's free tool that I use from IXIA called Qcheck

http://www.ixiacom.com/products/display?skey=qcheck