Check internet speed on MX Appliance

[TheAlchemist]

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

[alemabrahao]

You can use SolarWinds to monitor the WAN performance.

[TheAlchemist]

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.

[RaphaelL]

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.

[TheAlchemist]

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.

[RaphaelL]

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

[TheAlchemist]

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.

[jbright]

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.