From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 11 18:55:33 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9F0FC106566B for ; Mon, 11 Jan 2010 18:55:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from asmtpout030.mac.com (asmtpout030.mac.com [17.148.16.105]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8D1B48FC13 for ; Mon, 11 Jan 2010 18:55:33 +0000 (UTC) MIME-version: 1.0 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Received: from cswiger1.apple.com ([17.227.140.124]) by asmtp030.mac.com (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 6.3-8.01 (built Dec 16 2008; 32bit)) with ESMTPSA id <0KW300GE7J8IEI00@asmtp030.mac.com> for questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 11 Jan 2010 10:55:31 -0800 (PST) From: Chuck Swiger In-reply-to: <20100111174520.GA51360@skytracker.ca> Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2010 10:55:30 -0800 Message-id: <3CF15622-F0ED-41F1-A5D1-A4B44DDF2BF0@mac.com> References: <20100111174520.GA51360@skytracker.ca> To: David Banning X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1077) Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: speed test in ports? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2010 18:55:33 -0000 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