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Bandwidth, how much is enough?
- Thread starter Szeven
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I wouldnt be so concerned about bandwidth, as much as reliability.
I previously had a cable modem which was indeed very fast at times, however, there were a few times each week where it simply crashed. The internet would stop working. I had technicians from the cable company over multiple times and I tried many different configurations with boosters. It never failed to crash at the worst times. I got in the habit of rebooting the cable modem. The connection speed was 30 mpbs. Very very fast.
I switched over to DSL which is 5 times slower at 3 mpbs. I have not had one problem yet with the configuration. Very reliable.
Fios should come out soon and I should switch to a 15 mpbs connection in the future.
So reliability is the key factor.
I previously had a cable modem which was indeed very fast at times, however, there were a few times each week where it simply crashed. The internet would stop working. I had technicians from the cable company over multiple times and I tried many different configurations with boosters. It never failed to crash at the worst times. I got in the habit of rebooting the cable modem. The connection speed was 30 mpbs. Very very fast.
I switched over to DSL which is 5 times slower at 3 mpbs. I have not had one problem yet with the configuration. Very reliable.
Fios should come out soon and I should switch to a 15 mpbs connection in the future.
So reliability is the key factor.
Quote from Szeven:
I tried the traffic grapher but couldnt figure it out. I have an unmanged switch into a basic 4 port router (Dlink DI-604). The problem is I cant find where to enable SNMP. Any suggestions?
Do you have access to the manual for your router? I Googled one here.
Do you have access to the web-based administration application as per the manual?
If so, once you have logged in:
- click on the Advanced tab at the top, and then select SNMP from the options on the left.
- Make sure the Enable SNMP option is checked.
- Leave the Get and Set Community with the default entries.
- Click on Apply.
This should enable SNMP on your router.
Now, when running the PRTG Traffic Grapher:
- Click in the middle of the screen where it says "Click here to add your first sensor"
- Use all of the default choices offered by the Wizard.
- Enter the IP address of your router. It will be the same IP address you use to get to the web-based administration application.
- It will scan the router.
Click, click, click.
Pretty graphs.
Good luck.
MoMoney.
That router trick is pretty helpful, thanks.
I'll take a slightly slower highly reliable connection over a higher speed slightly reliable connection any day.
I'll take a slightly slower highly reliable connection over a higher speed slightly reliable connection any day.