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Date:      Mon, 26 Nov 2001 09:33:53 -0500
From:      Devin Smith <devin-freebsdquestions@rintrah.org>
To:        Asep Ruspeni <asepruspeni@yahoo.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: bandwidth speed test
Message-ID:  <20011126093353.A19826@tharmas.rintrah.org>
In-Reply-To: <20011126134749.38550.qmail@web14408.mail.yahoo.com>; from asepruspeni@yahoo.com on Mon, Nov 26, 2001 at 05:47:49AM -0800
References:  <20011126134749.38550.qmail@web14408.mail.yahoo.com>

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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

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