Thursday, October 4. 2012
Cool Tool - PsPing
PsPing is a command-line utility for measuring network performance. In addition to standard ICMP ping functionality, it can report the latency of connecting to TCP ports, the latency of TCP round-trip communication between systems, and the TCP bandwidth available to a connection between systems. Besides obtaining min, max, and average values in 0.01ms resolution, you can also use PsPing to generate histograms of the results that are easy to import into spreadsheets.
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Just to be lazy, I use a GUI tool for this called MTR. MTR stands for Matty's TraceRoute or MyTraceRoute (depending on who you ask) and orignally was a Linux alternative for the traceroute command. It merges ping and ping stats with traceroute info so you cannot only see what the latency to your destination is, but also check where your latency on route is caused (i.e. faulty router config or bad transit somewhere). The Windows version can be downloaded at http://winmtr.net/, the original site can be found at http://www.bitwizard.nl/mtr/. There also is an OSX transcode (Cli version) but you can also download the sourcecode and compile it, see http://www.practiceofcode.com/post/457590665/compiling-mtr-for-mac-os-x-snow-leopard.
My 2 cents about this :)
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Alex Muetstege
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2012-10-05 10:25
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