bandwidth test

Sat Aug 21 00:59:30 UTC 2004

>quote who="Bubba Parker">
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> Recently my DS3 has been turned up to 8 megabits. How can I test to see if
> I can actually achieve that throughput?
> Online bandwidth test sites are only good for up to 5mb at the most, and
> my upstream doesn't have a method to test that.

We've been LART'ing some of our colo clients lately for running bittorrent
trackers[1].  They seem to have no problem filling a 10mbps port rather
quickly.

-davidu

1: we do not run a commercial colo. our AUP does not allow this behavior.
no need to create a separate discussion about this. eof. :)

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