From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 26 6:33:39 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from tharmas.rintrah.org (dhcp065-024-235-184.insight.rr.com [65.24.235.184]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4E5A837B417 for ; Mon, 26 Nov 2001 06:33:36 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 19853 invoked by uid 1000); 26 Nov 2001 14:33:53 -0000 Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2001 09:33:53 -0500 From: Devin Smith To: Asep Ruspeni Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: bandwidth speed test Message-ID: <20011126093353.A19826@tharmas.rintrah.org> Mail-Followup-To: Asep Ruspeni , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20011126134749.38550.qmail@web14408.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20011126134749.38550.qmail@web14408.mail.yahoo.com>; from asepruspeni@yahoo.com on Mon, Nov 26, 2001 at 05:47:49AM -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Nov 26, 2001 at 05:47:49AM -0800, Asep Ruspeni wrote: > hallo, my name is Asep Ruspeni > > my office connected to internet using "256 kbps", but > i feel it much slower (even in holiday hour, say on > sunday at 23.00) > > need some help : > - is there any tools/commands i could use (especially > in freebsd) to test the ACTUAL bandwidth i received > from the ISP ? > so the fact i could gain from this test will be the > good reasons to change to another ISP. > try wget ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/distfiles/iozone3_67.tar when no one else is on the network. It should download the whole file and give the average speed of the download after it finishes. Try this with a couple largish files on several different servers. e.g. ftp2.freebsd.org ftp3.freebsd.org ftp4.freebsd.org Remember though that the 256 is usually the *maximum* speed. The guaranteed speed is usually much lower. --devin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message