Tommyboy19 Posted April 28, 2018 Share Posted April 28, 2018 What's the Correct way of saturating your connection I use 5 videos on YouTube at 1080p at 60fps is this enough or should I saturate further Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BIG__DOG Posted April 28, 2018 Share Posted April 28, 2018 that depends on your connection but it should be enough for most users! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Netduma Admin Posted April 28, 2018 Administrators Share Posted April 28, 2018 It depends on your bandwidth but that's usually enough. Running a speedtest at the same time is usually a good idea as well. That will fill up any remaining gaps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tommyboy19 Posted April 28, 2018 Author Share Posted April 28, 2018 Should I also start the tests with at 100% or should I start the tests at 70-70 on each slider as the starting point Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zennon Posted April 28, 2018 Share Posted April 28, 2018 I use just a speed test as that will try to and usually does saturate your download then upload there after. If you run a test at 100% first you will see what the line will look like jitter wise with no congestion control and then a test at 70% to show you how much the congestion control stops jitter / local congestion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tommyboy19 Posted April 28, 2018 Author Share Posted April 28, 2018 Cheers zennon whats also the best time that you would recommend to run tests ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zennon Posted April 28, 2018 Share Posted April 28, 2018 Anytime to check how well the congestion control works. If you are checking for ISP issues like congestion from their network and not yours then test at peak times so like 6pm to 10pm as that is when an ISP would be under the most stress. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tommyboy19 Posted April 28, 2018 Author Share Posted April 28, 2018 Also should I reset my download or upload flower too when running these tests as at the moment I've got it set to 20% on both Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zennon Posted April 28, 2018 Share Posted April 28, 2018 Personally I would as I like to leave them alone, I would reset them and use the congestion control exclusively as it works a treat but that is obviously up to each user. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tommyboy19 Posted April 28, 2018 Author Share Posted April 28, 2018 Ok I will try this cheers for the help again Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tommyboy19 Posted April 28, 2018 Author Share Posted April 28, 2018 When you mean you use speedtest to saturate your line I resume your using speedtest.net Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Netduma Admin Posted April 28, 2018 Administrators Share Posted April 28, 2018 When you mean you use speedtest to saturate your line I resume your using speedtest.net That's what I meant and I'm 99% sure that's what Zennon will have meant too! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tommyboy19 Posted April 28, 2018 Author Share Posted April 28, 2018 I also presume I just keep hitting the speed test button aswell when saturating the line as the speedtest only takes an few minutes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zennon Posted April 28, 2018 Share Posted April 28, 2018 Speedtest.net will do and you only need to check once or twice, its for you to see how well congestion control works, then it's set to 70% each way and forget. Unless you are testing for ISP congestion then you would run ping plotter for a longer period while you or any other member of your network does not use the internet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dominican_3niz Posted April 28, 2018 Share Posted April 28, 2018 so when yi run both speed test at the same time what sure i be looking in to it ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Netduma Fraser Posted April 29, 2018 Administrators Share Posted April 29, 2018 so when yi run both speed test at the same time what sure i be looking in to it ? You'd be looking at ping plotter to see if ping is going up. ------- Just my two cents, I use Torrents to saturate my connection as they will continue on for awhile and they always try to download at the highest rate possible. I use Ubuntu's torrent download option to keep it legal Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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