benchmarking network speeds 

Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin
> Our bandwidth demand has recently increased significantly and we are
> beginning to experience some bottlenecks.  I want to establish some
> benchmarks for our network speeds so that I can track down the bottlenecks.

ttcp, netperf will measure network speed.

Chances are that you are affected by network latency, which maay be measures with ping on a unix platform ( wintendo has far to bad timeresolution ).

You may also suffer from packet-loss, traces of it may be left in the statistics kept in most OS ( netstat -s will show some )

Peter