Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2010 10:55:30 -0800 From: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> To: David Banning <david+dated+1263663921.920bd5@skytracker.ca> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: speed test in ports? Message-ID: <3CF15622-F0ED-41F1-A5D1-A4B44DDF2BF0@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <20100111174520.GA51360@skytracker.ca> References: <20100111174520.GA51360@skytracker.ca>
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On Jan 11, 2010, at 9:45 AM, David Banning wrote: > I wonder if there is something in the ports that tests my DSL speed. > I am guessing that if I installed firefox3 and then installed flash > or Java then I could go to speedtest.net, but I wonder if there is > a simpler solution. You can use ftp or fetch from the base system to test downloads of some reasonably large files, and get a decent estimate of your bandwidth (or that of the server, depending on which is lower). However, the network-based tests from your ISP, speedtest.net, dslreports.com, etc including the tweak test often provide useful information about MTU, dropped packets, tweaking TCP window size, etc, so a browser-based test is a good approach. Regards, -- -Chuck
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