From owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 24 22:19:01 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5DCA516A422 for ; Tue, 24 Jan 2006 22:19:01 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from james@infinityprosports.com) Received: from mail1.infinityprosports.com (mail1.infinityprosports.com [67.18.186.5]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6CC3643D70 for ; Tue, 24 Jan 2006 22:18:57 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from james@infinityprosports.com) Received: (qmail 97333 invoked by uid 1009); 24 Jan 2006 22:15:00 -0000 Received: from c-24-1-252-111.hsd1.tx.comcast.net (HELO ?192.168.2.200?) (james@infinityprosports.com@24.1.252.111) by mail1.infinityprosports.com with ESMTPA; 24 Jan 2006 22:15:00 -0000 Message-ID: <43D6A7CC.6070005@infinityprosports.com> Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2006 16:18:52 -0600 From: James Ryan User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (Windows/20050716) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org References: <20060124180341.O1017@ganymede.hub.org> In-Reply-To: <20060124180341.O1017@ganymede.hub.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Subject: Re: php app to test bandwidth speeds ... X-BeenThere: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Internet Services Providers List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2006 22:19:01 -0000 Marc G. Fournier wrote: > > Something like: > > http://www.testmy.net > > That I can run on my own server(s) ... Are you wanting to test the bandwidth of clients accessing your web site(s)? If so, what I have done in the past is generate a ~100-500k graphic in ImageMagick/Photoshop/GIMP/etc with lots of added colored noise (so it cannot be compressed well). You can either use JavaScript or PHP to track the timestamps of when the graphic is first requested and when it is downloaded. So long as you load the image inside a non-visible tag, the client won't see it... Not saying this is the best way, but its the easiest and it has worked for me. Cheers, James -- James Ryan Lead Developer, Systems Administrator Infinity Pro Sports james@infinityprosports.com http://www.infinityprosports.com