Hello,
Wanted to understand if there is a way to check internet speed i.e. download/upload speeds available on a WAN connection without running any speed test. If there is a way to check on internet bandwidth being provided without running speed test. Concern is to know whether available bandwidth (up/down) fluctuates or not and speed test is not an option as it would affect live video streams running off the same internet.
Thanks
You can use SolarWinds to monitor the WAN performance.
So, would SolarWinds be able to able to sniff and tell how much bandwidth is being made available by ISP even though clients connected to MX would be using less . e.g. 500 Mbps uplink/downlink is made available by ISP while actual usage is of 100 Mbps uplink/downlink. Concern is to understand that provided ISP bandwidth is not dropping from 500 Mbps symmetrical to say 200Mbps symmetrical.
What you are requesting is not possible unless you are 100% sure that your clients are consumming 100% of the WAN bandwidth.
How will you know that they are only using 200Mbps on 500Mbps available ? The only way to know for sure that the ISP is allocating 500Mbps is via a speed test. Just schedule those tests outside of working hours.
Actually, not Meraki but, have used a product where the router provides in a graph, sensed (or available) bandwidth up/down and then the actual bandwidth consumed up/down. So, was curious to know, would there be a way to get such stats while using Meraki MX.
In that case with a Meraki Insight you can have that visibility. Configure the right shaping in Trafic & SD-WAN and you will see a "utilization" tab in WAN Health
How is current bandwidth measured?
Current bandwidth is measured from the current uplink traffic displayed on the Security and SD-WAN > Monitor > Appliance Status > Uplink tab status page.
https://documentation.meraki.com/MI/MI_WAN_Health/MI_WAN_Health_Overview
Sure, think it will tell WAN port utilization , that would be good enough but wont tell how much internet bandwidth is being made available by ISP.
If you have an Insight license assigned to your MX, you can go to the WAN Health section under the Insight tab and run a speed test, but it is only for the download speed.