| If you are in a quandry over how to test the | | | | potential vulnerabilities. |
| performance of your computer network you're | | | | |
| in luck. A little research lead me to an | | | | Note: Some firewalls might log a potential |
| amazing set of tools online availabe to | | | | attack from their server if you choose to |
| everyone as a free service. You can pretty | | | | test the security of your system since they |
| much measure or analyze anything broadband | | | | are testing for vulnerabilities. |
| related with the tools provided via the | | | | |
| online techie community forum at | | | | * SG Speed Test |
| SpeedGuide.net. Whatever it is you need to | | | | |
| look at.....performance or design | | | | A quick download speed test to estimate your |
| related.....you can get it done with the free | | | | connection speed at the time. |
| SpeedGuide tools. Nice little resource you | | | | |
| should take advantage of. | | | | * SG Network Tools |
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| Here's a list of what they have available to | | | | The SG Network tools section includes many |
| you: | | | | common network tools such as PING, |
| | | | TRACEROUTE, WHOIS, etc. |
| * SG TCP/IP Analyzer | | | | |
| | | | * SG Bits/Bytes Conversion Calculator |
| The SpeedGuide TCP/IP Analyzer is a program | | | | |
| designed to display your Internet connection | | | | The Bits/Bytes calculator is a useful tool |
| parameters, extracted directly from TCP | | | | for quickly converting bits/bytes, etc. It |
| packets sent by your browser to their server. | | | | takes into consideration the different |
| The Analyzer program then displays | | | | conventons while calculating data |
| recommendations based on the settings | | | | communication rates and storage space. |
| extracted from the headers of those packets. | | | | |
| | | | * SG RWIN/BDP Calculator |
| * SG TCP Optimizer | | | | |
| | | | The RWIN/BDP calculator can be used to |
| The TCP Optimizer is a free Windows program | | | | estimate TCP Window values, based on the |
| designed to help optimize your Internet | | | | Bandwidth |
| connection. The program makes it easy to find | | | | |
| the best MaxMTU value, test latency and tweak | | | | *Delay Product (BDP for short). |
| the important Registry Parameters. The | | | | |
| Optimizer can be helpful with tuning any | | | | It can also calculate maximum bandwidth based |
| Internet connection type, from dialup to | | | | on RWIN and latency values, and perform a |
| Gigabit+ :) If you need help with the | | | | number of different conversions as well. |
| program, check the TCP Optimizer | | | | |
| Documentation, read their broadband tweaking | | | | Drop in at SpeedGuide.net and test out (no |
| articles and the related FAQs, and/or visit | | | | pun intended) these tools. At the very least |
| their Forums. | | | | you may learn something about your current |
| | | | system needs or performance. While you're |
| * SG Security Scanner | | | | there I suggest you also check out their |
| | | | community forum. Great place to ask |
| The SpeedGuide.net Security Scanner audits | | | | questions and get answers for whatever |
| certain ports on your computer detecting | | | | broadband issues you may have. |