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how to accurately test internet upload & download speed

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CS DBA

Thursday, 10 July 2014 Thu, 10 Jul '14

10:34 a.m.

All; Is there a accurate way of truly testing what upload and download speeds i'm getting? I'm running Fedora 20 Thanks in advance...

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Joe Zeff

Friday, 11 July Fri, 11 Jul

2:51 p.m.

On 07/11/2014 12:42 PM, James Hogarth wrote:

Since the only way to test bandwidth is to fill the connection until you hit a limit on a serious note please do not do this at hotspots... You will cause severe performance degradation for every other user during your testing...

For that matter, if you're testing your home connection, do it when nobody else is using the connection.

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James Hogarth

2:42 p.m.

On 10 Jul 2014 18:19, "JD" <jd1008(a)gmail.com> wrote:

Very useful tools, especially while at hotspot cafe's. Are there any free public servers for ttcp and iperf?

Since the only way to test bandwidth is to fill the connection until you hit a limit on a serious note please do not do this at hotspots... You will cause severe performance degradation for every other user during your testing... This is not a very nice thing to do ;)

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Tim

6 a.m.

Allegedly, on or about 10 July 2014, CS_DBA sent:

Is there a accurate way of truly testing what upload and download speeds i'm getting?

Download a file, time it, and do the math... ;-\ On a serious note, some ISPs do give you a speed test that you can do by downloading a large file from their servers. That lets you test your link speed. -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp Linux 3.9.10-100.fc17.x86_64 #1 SMP Sun Jul 14 01:31:27 UTC 2013 x86_64 All mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted, there is no point trying to privately email me, I will only read messages posted to the public lists. George Orwell's '1984' was supposed to be a warning against tyranny, not a set of instructions for supposedly democratic governments.

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JD

Thursday, 10 July Thu, 10 Jul

12:19 p.m.

On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 9:38 AM, Matthew Miller <mattdm(a)fedoraproject.org> wrote:

On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 09:34:28AM -0600, CS_DBA wrote: > Is there a accurate way of truly testing what upload and download > speeds i'm getting? > I'm running Fedora 20 I've found http://www.speedtest.net/ to be pretty decent. But if you have

a

remote server, you can do it yourself pretty easily with the `ttcp`

command.

`yum install ttcp`, and then run it with -r for receive mode on one system and -t for transmit mode on the other end.

Very useful tools, especially while at hotspot cafe's. Are there any free public servers for ttcp and iperf? Thanx!

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poma

10:58 a.m.

On 10.07.2014 17:38, Matthew Miller wrote:

On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 09:34:28AM -0600, CS_DBA wrote: > Is there a accurate way of truly testing what upload and download > speeds i'm getting? > I'm running Fedora 20 I've found http://www.speedtest.net/ to be pretty decent. But if you have a remote server, you can do it yourself pretty easily with the `ttcp` command. `yum install ttcp`, and then run it with -r for receive mode on one system and -t for transmit mode on the other end.

Last time I used this tool. And it's all on one page! :) https://iperf.fr and SpeedOf.Me is an HTML5 Internet speed test. No Flash or Java needed! :) http://speedof.me poma

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Matthew Miller

10:38 a.m.

On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 09:34:28AM -0600, CS_DBA wrote:

Is there a accurate way of truly testing what upload and download speeds i'm getting? I'm running Fedora 20

I've found http://www.speedtest.net/ to be pretty decent. But if you have a remote server, you can do it yourself pretty easily with the `ttcp` command. `yum install ttcp`, and then run it with -r for receive mode on one system and -t for transmit mode on the other end. -- Matthew Miller <mattdm(a)fedoraproject.org> Fedora Project Leader

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