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Date: Thu, 9 May 2002 19:52:15 -0700
From: Nathan Kinkade <nkinkade@dsl-only.com>
To: Steven Lake <raiden@shell.core.com>
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Subject: Re: Curiousity Question: Speed Test
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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#

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