[ale] Measuring DSL performance

[Greg]

well, just a browser, really.  One of the larger ftp sites is Oracle's (just
fill in a bunch of crap if you have to "join"), I guess you could also
download OpenBSD, SuSE, red-hot, or such.  On every browser I have it tells
me how fast, but the trouble is that many companies have slow servers or
throttle the bandwidth.  dslreports is probably the best, as they just
generate a stream of bits.  Your browser should work ok - if not then try
Netscape, opera, whatever gnome uses, Konquerer, etc ... .. or maybe you
could just use ftp.  Of course if your Windows is the only one that works,
then use it, as it the download speed you are measuring.  I know that almost
every distro has several monitors, so just search for one on the distro -
and remember, Google is your friend.

Greg

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ale-admin at ale.org [mailto:ale-admin at ale.org]On Behalf Of John
> Wells
> Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2003 6:48 PM
> To: ale at ale.org
> Cc: runman at speedfactory.net
> Subject: RE: [ale] Measuring DSL performance
>
>
> Greg said:
> > I think that dslreports.com has/had a feature that did this - used java
> > via the browser I think.
>
> I've used those from Windows, but for some reason they refuse to work with
> Mozilla/jre 1.4.1/Linux.
>
> > Another way is to download a huge file from
> > someone and note the speed, both before and after the switch.
>
> What utilities exist to allow me to do this?
>
> Thanks!
> John
>
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