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| [General] Command line speed test There are several sites that give you a decent speedtest (DSLR, Speakeasy, PhonePower has additional VoIP-related metrics. I want to get these metrics on a periodic basis. Ideally, I want to put something as a shell script and cron it on the router. So, here are the questions:
1. Does anybody know a website that provides this information to command-based clients?
2. Websites usually download several files of different sizes. What size are most representative? Do they average the results? I tried downloading (through wget) a distro from kernel.org and a 500MB file from softlayer.com - and got several times difference comparing with GUI. 700KB/s (~6Mbps) compared to 16Mbps in DSLR and PhonePower.
3. Is there any reliable high-speed server where I can try upload speed and (men can dream!) VoIP metrics, like jitter or latency?
Everybody on Google discusses "how can I measure download from command line" with the answer "use wget/curl". Can we go one step beyond that? |
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 TheMole
join:2001-12-06
Morristown, NJ | you can check your ISP. some ISPs have large binary files that they post to an open ftp inside their network. you can download these and get a true speedtest for your connection back to them. My ISP, Optimum Online, has this. I'd suspect others do as well.
for jitter, you can use mtr (matt's traceroute) from a unix command line to test for jitter to your voip provider or anyplace else.
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| reply to ymhee_bcex
Speed tests give a better result than any "real world" download or upload because:
1. They use two or more concurrent TCP connections, reporting the sum of the speeds achieved.
2. The servers "ramp up" and retransmit more aggressively. Real web sites don't do that, because they want to maximize the aggregate data rate to all clients, rather than optimize one.
3. Based on your IP address, they select a server that is "closest" to you in transit time. |
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| reply to ymhee_bcex
maybe this:
»sourceforge.net/projects/tespeed/ |
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gweidenh
join:2002-05-18
Houston, TX
kudos:1 | speedtest.net provides a "mini" test that you can run on your own server. Its a very simple test with different file sizes to download and upload.
For a command line download test, you could simple to do a wget of the files and it will report the speed in which it downloaded the file. |
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