Is there a way I can automatically track bandwidth over several days or weeks and show some sort of average, or even a report on peaks and valleys?
My ISP is providing us with 384 up/down DSL. That's about 48KB up/down. We're lucky if we get 20KB. It's getting really old, especially when my home cable connection can EASILY sustain 200KB and as much as 500KB at less than half the cost. We business owners are really getting the shaft on this. And I refuse to pay over a $100 a month just for moderate performance. They want like $150 per month for 768 up/down. Crazy.
Anyway, I've let my ISP know I'm not too thrilled with the speed, but I want to be able to provide "proof" that it is consistently poor. I'm in a three year contract, so I'm looking for either a way out or some impetus for them to get my speed up.
I've run various fre online speed tests, but it's kind of a pain. I just want to be able to do my normal web work for a week and then see a report telling me that I average 15KB per second or whatever. Is this possible?
FWIW--There are cheaper options (Verizon), but for one we had trouble deadling with their bureaucracy and worse, at the time they couldn't give us a way to host our own website and have our own .biz emails.
My ISP is providing us with 384 up/down DSL. That's about 48KB up/down. We're lucky if we get 20KB. It's getting really old, especially when my home cable connection can EASILY sustain 200KB and as much as 500KB at less than half the cost. We business owners are really getting the shaft on this. And I refuse to pay over a $100 a month just for moderate performance. They want like $150 per month for 768 up/down. Crazy.
Anyway, I've let my ISP know I'm not too thrilled with the speed, but I want to be able to provide "proof" that it is consistently poor. I'm in a three year contract, so I'm looking for either a way out or some impetus for them to get my speed up.
I've run various fre online speed tests, but it's kind of a pain. I just want to be able to do my normal web work for a week and then see a report telling me that I average 15KB per second or whatever. Is this possible?
FWIW--There are cheaper options (Verizon), but for one we had trouble deadling with their bureaucracy and worse, at the time they couldn't give us a way to host our own website and have our own .biz emails.
) for years if you wish. You have to reset the counters manual so doing this once a month is easy.