Date: Thu, 9 May 2002 19:52:15 -0700 From: Nathan Kinkade <nkinkade@dsl-only.com> To: Steven Lake <raiden@shell.core.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Curiousity Question: Speed Test Message-ID: <20020509195215.0933947a.nkinkade@dsl-only.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.44L0.0205092049180.21664-100000@shell.core.com> References: <Pine.GSO.4.44L0.0205092049180.21664-100000@shell.core.com>
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On Thu, 9 May 2002 20:51:22 -0500 (CDT) Steven Lake <raiden@shell.core.com> wrote: > This is more out of personal curiousity than actual need, but > I'm wondering if theres a program or a way to monitor your > actual throughput speed for uploads and downloads and generate > an average as needed? So like if you're on a T3 and it seems > more like a dialup connection I want to be able to see if it's > actually moving that slow or if it's moving fast and the sites > are just slow. Take a look at a little program called "TrafShow". It's in the ports collection (/usr/ports/net/trafshow). TrafShow will give you, among other things, a throughput value for the specified interface. For a vague idea of your download speeds across the Internet you could use one of various online tools....maybe try these: http://www.dslreports.com/stest http://www.2wire.com/support/index.html# To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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