Re: Download speed

David wrote:
> 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.
This looks promising:

http://mirror.internode.on.net/pub/test/

I found this via a web search for "test download file residing on an isp australia".

cheers
rickw


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