Re: how to accurately test internet upload & download speed

2014-07-11 Thread Joe Zeff
On 07/11/2014 12:42 PM, James Hogarth wrote: Since the only way to test bandwidth is to fill the connection until you hit a limit on a serious note please do not do this at hotspots... You will cause severe performance degradation for every other user during your testing... For that matter, i

Re: how to accurately test internet upload & download speed

2014-07-11 Thread James Hogarth
On 10 Jul 2014 18:19, "JD" wrote: > Very useful tools, especially while at hotspot cafe's. > Are there any free public servers for ttcp and iperf? Since the only way to test bandwidth is to fill the connection until you hit a limit on a serious note please do not do this at hotspots... You will

Re: how to accurately test internet upload & download speed

2014-07-11 Thread Tim
Allegedly, on or about 10 July 2014, CS_DBA sent: > Is there a accurate way of truly testing what upload and download > speeds i'm getting? Download a file, time it, and do the math... ;-\ On a serious note, some ISPs do give you a speed test that you can do by downloading a large file from the

Re: how to accurately test internet upload & download speed

2014-07-11 Thread J.Witvliet
...@consistentstate.com] Verzonden: Thursday, July 10, 2014 05:34 PM W. Europe Standard Time Aan: users@lists.fedoraproject.org Onderwerp: how to accurately test internet upload & download speed All; Is there a accurate way of truly testing what upload and download speeds i'm getting? I'm run

Re: how to accurately test internet upload & download speed

2014-07-10 Thread JD
On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 9:38 AM, Matthew Miller wrote: > > On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 09:34:28AM -0600, CS_DBA wrote: > > Is there a accurate way of truly testing what upload and download > > speeds i'm getting? > > I'm running Fedora 20 > > I've found http://www.speedtest.net/ to be pretty decent. B

Re: how to accurately test internet upload & download speed

2014-07-10 Thread poma
On 10.07.2014 17:38, Matthew Miller wrote: On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 09:34:28AM -0600, CS_DBA wrote: Is there a accurate way of truly testing what upload and download speeds i'm getting? I'm running Fedora 20 I've found http://www.speedtest.net/ to be pretty decent. But if you have a remote serv

Re: how to accurately test internet upload & download speed

2014-07-10 Thread Matthew Miller
On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 09:34:28AM -0600, CS_DBA wrote: > Is there a accurate way of truly testing what upload and download > speeds i'm getting? > I'm running Fedora 20 I've found http://www.speedtest.net/ to be pretty decent. But if you have a remote server, you can do it yourself pretty easily

how to accurately test internet upload & download speed

2014-07-10 Thread CS_DBA
All; Is there a accurate way of truly testing what upload and download speeds i'm getting? I'm running Fedora 20 Thanks in advance... -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fed