Monitoring Network Performance with Speedometer Jun 25, 2008, 09 :00 UTC (1 Talkback[s]) (5811 reads) (Other stories by Ben Martin)
"Speedometer shows a graph of your current and past network speed in your console, letting you see your network connection's up and downstream speed and history at a glance. You can also use speedometer directly on a file to monitor the download performance and history of a specific download instead of all network traffic. When displaying the total network traffic, speedometer is sort of like gkrellm, in that you can see the current and past network performance on a graph, but you can easily run it over an SSH connection without having to set up gkrellmd.
"Speedometer is packaged for Ubuntu Hardy and as a 1-Click install for openSUSE 10.3, but is not in the Fedora repositories. For this article I'll build speedometer version 2.6 from source on a 64-bit Fedora 8 machine..."
