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I want to automate / simulate web browsing and measure response times through my 768k dsl connection.

I have a branch office with 4 desktops. The remote office has an old 768k sDSL circuit. The VPN tunnel consumes part of this bandwidth making the circuit perform (as judged by scornful humans) about like a 384k circuit. I want to run scripts on the desktops that would drive them to various web sites (doesn't matter which ones) and measure response times, timeouts, etc. This would be repeated with varying configurations of VPN and DNS and anti-virus / content filtering solutions.

I found the material for a script tool known as "twill" but nothing newer than 2007 there. And it's not doing exactly this task. There are many tools that will stress test a given web site. I want to stress the dsl line. Thanks,
David

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RGRodgers

http://www.speedtest.net/ and other sites of that ilk provide excellent tools for testing the available upload and download bandwidth.

admn4tndc

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Thank you. I'm slammed with crisis this morning. I will look at these tools and send points rewards tomorrow.

RGRodgers

You can Google "internet speed test" to find quite a few sites such as speedtest.net.

admn4tndc

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To RGRodgers: Yes I know about that. The tool I am after will actually throw traffic from my desktop to the ISP connection trying to make contact with many sites. It would be the same as perhaps running speedtest.net whilst running contact with 50 other sites loading at the same time.