Software for monitoring ADSL line over time?

Having just 'upgraded' to ADSL2+ I've found that the speed is between 15% and 80% SLOWER than my old ADSL 8Mb connection. My sync speeds vary between 14980 and 15320 but the profile is steady at 13000, so I'm happy that the line itself is fine, but unfortunately the traffic is being throttled to death. During the evenings I'm no longer able to watch programs on iPlayer or 4oD because the bandwidth often drops to below the minimum of 500Kbps required for iPlayer. Ironically I get between 4 and 7Mbps during the day (when transfers count against my cap).

I'm trying to monitor my connection to provide the evidence I need for Entanet to actually *do* something, but my recording regime is a little patchy and during the evening I'm busy so I don't get a chance to run regular tests and unfortunately this is precisely the time I need to get accurate stats for! Does anyone know of a package that will run periodic line tests and log the results?

I run Ubuntu but I can bring a Windows XP machine to the house where necessary so something on either of these two OS that can run periodic line tests and store the stats would be great.

Thanks,
TH.

This site has it's own tester here, does do download tests etc, not sure whether it's possible to configure for specific time slots though.

With Linux I'd be tempted to set up a cron job to run every 15 minutes or so to test the connection.

e.g. use crontab -e to add the following line to your cron table

*/15 * * * * /home/john/my-log-prog

(replace john with your user name)

Where my-log-prog is a file in your home directory containing.

#!/bin/bash
date >>my-xfer-log
/usr/bin/time -o my-xfer-log -a -f "%e seconds" \
   wget http://download.thinkbroadband.com/10MB.zip -q

That would produce a log of times taken to download a 10MB file.

Wed Jun 23 13:40:01 BST 2010
14.03 seconds
Wed Jun 23 13:42:02 BST 2010
12.14 seconds
Wed Jun 23 13:44:01 BST 2010
12.13 seconds
Wed Jun 23 13:46:01 BST 2010
12.13 seconds
Wed Jun 23 13:48:01 BST 2010
12.16 seconds
Wed Jun 23 13:50:01 BST 2010
12.13 seconds
Wed Jun 23 13:52:01 BST 2010
12.14 seconds

I used */2 to run this test every 2 minutes.

Hows about Jack Dinns automatic speed tester http://dl.adslhelper.co.uk/JDSpeedTester/JDAutoSpeed...

Update to above link for JDast,

I have changed the download address for JDast so please dont use the above link as it way out of date and may well be removed soon.

Direct download link

JDast web site

Thx all.

p.s. thx for the mention BatBoy

Edited by JackDinn (Mon 12-Jul-10 07:55:36)

If you can use XP Routerstats is also useful. Can be left to continually moniter noise margin etc and save graphs. Excellent kit

http://www.vwlowen.co.uk/internet/files.htm

Edited by agkq62 (Mon 12-Jul-10 11:11:57)

ahh, interesting piece of software but a little complicated for the general user as its using telnet and accessing router, so not really for the layman.

But if you are a bit off a buff it looks very cool nice pointer.