Logging the netspeed / Upload & download

[MatsNorway]

Hi guys. 

 

Im in the process of getting a backup in the cloud and im wondering if you guys had a program for logging netspeed for as long as up to 24hours (or more if possible)

I would like to keep tabs on the upload speed.

 

Ive found some on google ofc. But if you want to recommend one of them and discuss it with others i would be grateful.

[Lurick]

I have a linux box that runs a speedtest every hour and logs the results. So if you have a raspberry pi or other device that can handle the throughput you're supposed to get you can set that up with a couple easy scripts to run speedtests.

[MatsNorway]

You lost me at Linux My bad, im fairly casual with computers. Also i can not do speedtests as i wish to logg while downloading. Surely it is possible to measure the upload of an program?

 

Edit: I will simply log with the windows logger. Should give me a peek into whats going on before i log in.

[Fetzie]

17 hours ago, MatsNorway said:

Hi guys. 

 

Im in the process of getting a backup in the cloud and im wondering if you guys had a program for logging netspeed for as long as up to 24hours (or more if possible)

I would like to keep tabs on the upload speed.

 

Ive found some on google ofc. But if you want to recommend one of them and discuss it with others i would be grateful.

If you want to use Powershell you can get the current network bandwidth usage from the

Win32_PerfFormattedData_Tcpip_NetworkInterface

class of "Get-WmiObject"

 

You're looking for the BytesTotalPerSec and CurrentBandwidth properties.

[Falconevo]

NetSpeedMonitor can do exactly this is you are just wishing to see the input/output from a single Windows based PC/Server on a single network interface.

Used to be provided by a software engineer called Florian Gilles but I think he has taken down his site so the download link isn't available.

 

Here's a download link for the 64bit version of the software;

http://static.falconevo.co.uk/netspeedmonitor_2_5_4_0_x64_setup.zip

 

Really easy to use and has a built in SQLite database for capturing data for easy reading.

 

I use it on most of my machines just to keep a track of individual devices network input/output.  I monitor edge devices also to check traffic in and out for the net which will be a entirely different value as it won't count traffic inside a network subnet like NetSpeedMonitor will.

[MatsNorway]

testing it/logging now.. or something.

[Falconevo]

Did it give you the feature set you needed?

[MatsNorway]

Not if i can not get a graf over the logged values through the night

[Falconevo]

You can output the logging to a .CSV file which can be used to build graphing in Excel.  Build yourself an Excel template then just drop the CSV information in to the template to build a graph.

It won't build a graph for you, nor did you specify in your original post you needed graphing.  It can certainly be done, but its not part of the software, you would need to build the graph yourself from CSV content.

 

Edited to attach example of what you see.

[MatsNorway]

I managed to get some info into openoffice calc. but only day by day

 

Same as shown here.

 

I like having upload/download on the side here. You can see what is going on better. Mostly it is just a fun to have experience.

 

[Falconevo]

What time scale are you looking at logging for?  Seconds, Minutes or Hours?

[MatsNorway]

1 hour ago, Falconevo said:

What time scale are you looking at logging for?  Seconds, Minutes or Hours?

Hours would be best.