Internet speed - Is this normal?

[mitchell1981]

Can anyone else with Smoothwall and a 1Gbps fibre connection show me what this graph shows on your external connection:

 

 

I just want to gauge if this is normal, or a bit slow. Seems a bit slow to me, and lots of people complaining about slow remote access.

 

Our fibre is synchronous.

 

Thanks!

[DGardiner]

That graph averages the peaks so you wont see the spikes on such a long dataset, just hit a speed test and open the live traffic logs

[mitchell1981]

Yes, thank makes sense. I'll give it a go. Thanks.

[DGardiner]

Id check your appliance too...

 

depending on the model it wont filter a 1gb line at full speed - i think you need a "green" S8 or better to be able to do 1gb

[Davit2005]

fast.com is a good speed test not full of adverts like some

[robyholmes]

I also believe the Smoothwall graph is traffic going through guardian only, so any non Web traffic or auth bypass etc doesn't get included.

[ibpalle]

The graphs for the interfaces show all traffic, not just web traffic.

 

The reports - realtime - traffic graphs can also be a good resource when examining bandwidth as well as 'iftop' on the command line. A speedtest can be run directly on the console as well by issuing the command 'speedtest'