Gary, Keep in mind that their rate and your rate WILL be different. At least a 10% difference, due to TCP overhead. So make sure you test on already compressed data (like an MP3 stream). The more compressed the data the less likely it will go through protocol compression en route.
-- Ryan On Nov 1, 2010, at 10:48 PM, Antonio Olivares wrote: > On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 10:42 PM, Gary Kline <[email protected]> wrote: >> People, is there a utility to give me the rate of bps that I am >> _supposed_ to be getting from my telco DSL? >> >> tia, >> >> gary >> >> -- >> Gary Kline [email protected] http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix >> The 7.90a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org/index.php >> An Open Letter to Stephen Hawking http://www.thought.org/#oL >> >> _______________________________________________ >> [email protected] mailing list >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]" >> > > Try iperf? > > http://www.freebsdsoftware.org/benchmarks/iperf.html > > Used it to test speed on modem connection. > > Hope this helps. > > Regards, > > Antonio > _______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]" _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
