abget is a non cooperative tool that estimates the end-to-end available bandwidth from any web server to your computer.

It estimates a variation range of the avail-bw in the path over a time period that can be defined by the user through the tool's parameters.

abget can estimate the avail-bw for both downstream (server to our client) and upstream (our client to server) paths.

You can read more info about how this tool work from the following paper:

  • D. Antoniades, M. Athanatos, A. Papadogiannakis, E.P. Markatos, and C. Dovrolis. Available bandwidth measurement as simple as running wget. In Proceedings of the Passive and Active Measurement Conference (PAM2006), March 2006 (.pdf version)
  • abget tutorial

    • The first release is available from here

    Authors:

  • Papadogiannakis Antonis (papadog AT ics.forth.gr)
  • Antoniades Demetres (danton AT ics.forth.gr)
  • Athanatos Manos (athanat AT ics.forth.gr)
  • Constantine Dovrolis (dovrolis AT cc.gatech.edu)
  • Evangelos Markatos (markatos AT ics.forth.gr)