ADLS out then in?

[Mike MacSween]

I've got an ADSL connection to the internet and 2 computers (one laptop XP,
one server win 2K server). I want to test speed and access to my server AS
THOUGH I'm coming at it from the WAN via broadband.

The router (4 ethernet ports) has NAT turned on and is doing port forwarding
to the server for those ports I want to get to.

If I do an analogue modem dialup from the laptop, with the NIC disabled,
then enter http://routerwanaddress:port everything works, but of course at
analogue modem speed. I want to test it at ADSL speed.

If I enter http://routerwanaddress:port while I'm connected to the router,
it just seems to assume I'm trying to administer it, and gives me the web
based admin logon.

Anybody got any ideas? If I turn NAT off and give the machines static IPs
then the connection's just going to go straight across the local network
isn't it?

I tried using a 2nd ADSL router connected to a different telephone socket,
but of course no luck. Can't have 2 routers with the same IP address on the
interenet.

Yours, Mike MacSween

 

[Dave]

Why don't you set up something specific like an ftp site and post the info
here, i'm sure some one will give you a report, in any case I can almost
guarantee you will get 256K up (i.e back to the web) cause thats what
everyone else gets.

Dave.

 

[Mike MacSween]

Why don't you set up something specific like an ftp site and post the info
here, i'm sure some one will give you a report, in any case I can almost
guarantee you will get 256K up (i.e back to the web) cause thats what
everyone else gets.

I'm sure I would. That's not what I meant. I obviously didn't explain very
well.

I want to test the performance of various things on the server. Web serving,
remote control software, db server connection and so on. I want to see how
it'll perform when it's connected to via ADSL as compared to dial up. A
simple bandwidth test is neither here nor there, it's how various
applications perform over the 2 of the commonest internet connections that
interest me.

I can do the dial up fine. But I'm trying to find a way of going out of the
local network then coming back into it from the WAN side, via a router
that's got NAT on and doing port forwarding.

Mike

 

[William P.N. Smith]

But I'm trying to find a way of going out of the
local network then coming back into it from the WAN side, via a router
that's got NAT on and doing port forwarding.

You can't do that from inside the LAN, you either need to put a hub
outside the LAN and use an IP address that's not in use outside, or
(because you initially mentioned that bandwidth was important) get a
cable modem and go out thru that.