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how do I determine how much data has gone through

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Hi All I am trying to determine how much packets or data has gone through between my server and my local machine?

ISSUE:
I am trying to download a file.
a 10000 row CSV file downloads in less than 40 secs
a 20000 row CSV file===== same time
a 50000 row CSV file====== hangs and times out after 9 mins.

I am trying to see if its my throughput pipe so i can get back to Network engineers and tell them to open it up.

thanks

asked 11 Jun '16, 23:33

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edited 11 Jun '16, 23:59

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Capture the whole conversation using Wireshark (means: start capturing before initiating the download and stop capturing after the transfer successfully finished or times out), and then

  • choose Statistics -> Conversations to open a list of conversations, select the tab TCP to see the TCP ones, and find the one you are interested in by IP addresses and ports to see the number of packets and the number of bytes which have been transferred (which is what your question was about)

  • find the conversation (applying a display filter ip.addr == your.client.ip and ip.addr == your.server.ip could be sufficient; if not, add and tcp.port == your.server.port and tcp.port == your.client.port to the display filter and press --> (apply) again) and then look for lost packets, retransmissions etc. to find out what is wrong (which is what you seem to actually need).

answered 12 Jun '16, 00:17

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