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I've created a server to test bandwidth from employees working remote (using speedtest.net mini), but was wondering if anyone knew of a way to setup some software in linux to test latency and possibly keep track of the results.

I essentially want to test the latency between a client at their house and a server in a dmz. I am currently running RHEL5

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  • Yes, plenty of already made software does latency collecting. Google, ping monitoring. – xeon Jan 24 '14 at 04:46
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    Check out smokeping. – EEAA Jan 24 '14 at 04:47
  • i think it is useless, every client latency will be different, what will it prove? – Danila Ladner Jan 24 '14 at 04:54
  • As it stands, it's difficult to determine what your actual problem is. If it is simply "Whats a good way to test latency for remote connections?" then you're off topic here. However, I think there's more to it, and this has some potential to become a useful question. If you can provide some details, such as your proposed solution along with a specific question about some aspect of it's implementation, i'm sure you would get more useful answers. – tdk2fe Jan 24 '14 at 07:30

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I checked out smokeping and that didn't do what I wanted. I searched for a couple of days before posting this question. I put an inquiry in with Ookla and they pointed me to NetGuage, will does exactly what I need. http://www.ookla.com/netgauge

I run Netguage on a server in our DMZ, and people that are having any kind of connectivity issues, we can point them to the server, and get a baseline of their latency, packet loss, upload/download speeds, which is a great first step in troubleshooting.

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