LAN traffic speed

For an ongoing assessment, the best approach would be to install SNMP agents on the workstations and then use a product like MRTG to query them at intervals and graph the results.

You can also query the registry of each machine to determine the NIC configuration (in a hub environment they should all be half-duplex, but the configured speed could differ).

Finally, you could use the brute force approach and used timed file transfers to see what your data throughput really is. When doing the numbers in bits per second, remember to account for overhead (i.e. it takes more than 8 bits to transfer a byte).

paul

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