Setting Up Bandwidth Measurement

You can enable bandwidth measurement to make all uploads perform a bandwidth measurement prior to transferring regardless of the target rate setting for the server or the transferring user (downloads are not affected).

  1. Stop IBM Aspera Faspex.

    In a Terminal or Command Prompt, execute the command to stop Faspex:

    asctl faspex:stop
  2. Open Faspex.yml with a text editor.

    Locate Faspex.yml in the following location:

    OS Version Path
    32-bit Windows C:\Program Files\Aspera\Faspex\config\Faspex.yml
    64-bit Windows C:\Program Files (x86)\Aspera\Faspex\config\Faspex.yml

    Before editing Faspex.yml, create a backup. Open it with a text editor:

  3. Add the bandwidth measurement parameter in Faspex.yml.

    Before editing Faspex.yml, create a backup. Open it with a text editor, and add this line at the end of the file:

    ...
    MeasureBandwidthOnUpload: yes
  4. Start Faspex

    In a Terminal or Command Prompt, execute the command to start Faspex with the new setting:

    asctl faspex:start

To verify bandwidth measurement, open IBM Aspera Connect Browser Plug-in and go to Preferences > Bandwidth, click Remove All and make sure Automatically cache measurements obtained during transfer is unchecked. Now log into Faspex and send a package. In the first few seconds of the transfer, Connect Browser Plug-in should show a status of Measuring Bandwidth....