Re: Download speed

On 22/05/14 08:38, Rick Welykochy wrote:
> Edwin Humphries (text) wrote:
>> Can anyone suggest a way of testing the download speed of my NBN 
>> fibre connection every hour and logging it? I have an ostensibly 
>> 100Mbps connection, but the speed seems to vary enormously, so an 
>> automated process would be good.
>
> Download a file of known length, say 1000 MB, from a server
> whose speed you can trust every hour. Time and log each download.
> Also verify the contents of the downloaded file with an md5 or sha
> digest.
>
> This can be automated with an scp inside a simple (shell) script.
>

Westnet used to have a file available for exactly this purpose - I dare 
say other ISP's do too. Perhaps you could ask your own ISP.





>
> cheers
> rickw
>
>

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