[AuckLUG] SNMP monitoring of Netgear DG834

[Jamie Dobbs]

I'm certainly not getting anything over around 450 kilo bits per second (if I was getting 450 kilo bytes per second I'd be very happy!), my Internet speed is atrocious. I have emailed IHUG's helpdesk about it but given my past experiences I doubt I'll get a reply.


On Tue, 7 Nov 2006 09:53:39 +1300, "Hansel Dunlop" <hansel at interpretthis.org> wrote:
> Hi Jamie
> 
> Are you sure that you are only getting a maximum of 450 kilobits per
> second?
> What might be happening is that you are getting 450 kilo bytes per second.
> 
> 3,500,000 bits per second divided by 8 = 437,500 bytes per second, or
> 437.5KB/s.
> 
> My ihug connection never seems to go over 250 KB/s. However they have
> never
> capped me so I never felt the need to complain.
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Hansel
> 
> On 11/7/06, Jamie Dobbs <jamie.dobbs at ihug.co.nz> wrote:
>>
>> I've been tearing my hair out for the last 24 hours trying to get one of
>> the various snmp tools available on Linux to be able to extract data
> from my
>> Netgear DG834 ADSL router.
>> Tools in Windows can access the device fine and get stats (and is doing
> so
>> at the moment), but in Linux I do not seem to be able to get information
>> bvack from the router using `snmpwalk -Os 192.168.1.1 public system` or
>> similar commands. Is there a firewall in Ubuntu that could be stopping
> the
>> information being sent back? Am I doing something wrong?
>> As I said I can get information using tools in Windows on the same PC
> that
>> Linux is on, but not in Linux.
>> Any and all help appreciated as I really need to have some way to
> monitor
>> the real connect speeds I am getting as I am having major issues where
> my
>> connect speed keeps dropping back to 64Kbps and despite multiple resets
> etc.
>> does not get much better than around 448Kbps with it should be 3.5Mbps
>>
>>
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