(top-posts rule!) Just as a comment, since this is something you're going to run regularly, and Mozilla.org is one of the good guys, and a non-profit at that, it might be friendlier to not use their bandwidth for a download test like this. May I suggest, as an alternate, something like, say... this? ftp://ftp.sco.com/pub/openserver5/507/scoupdate/up3/507up3_vol.tar (43 megabytes of bandwidth testing goodness) ;-) Wget can do anonymous ftp retrievals, can't it? If not, I'm sure there's an http download lurking around that site somewhere. :-) Bill Ed Skinner wrote: > (Pardon the top-post.) > wget of Firefox is great (thank you mozilla.org for silently volunteering >to be my test site). I set this up in a script and can run it on demand -- it >appends the output to a logfile each time as well as displaying the results >as it runs. With a sleep of about 23 minutes (so it will skew through the >hour), I've got it set to run overnight. Should be interesting. > For those who are interested, here's the script (beware of long-line >folding in what follows -- everything within the single quotes (') is on a >single line in the script -- YMMV): > >#!/bin/sh >echo >echo "(Appending to bandwidth.log)" >/bin/sh -c ' echo; echo >"========================================================================"; >echo; date; echo; wget >http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/0.10/Firefox%20Setup%201.0PR.exe; >rm -f Firefox*' 2>&1 | tee -a bandwidth.log > >Thanks! > > >On Tuesday 14 September 2004 16:06, Jonathan Hohle wrote: > > >>if your just interested in bandwidth, you can download a decent sized >>file (couple MBs) with wget and save the output to a file. >> >>"wget -a filename" will append wget's normal output to a file, so >>when i downloaded firefox, it looked something like this: >> >>--18:02:30-- >>http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/0.10/Firefox%20Setu >>p%201.0PR.exe => `Firefox%20Setup%201.0PR.exe.2' >>Resolving ftp.mozilla.org... done. >>Connecting to ftp.mozilla.org[207.200.85.49]:80... connected. >>HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK >>Length: 4,742,005 [application/octet-stream] >> >> 0K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 1% 118.48 >>KB/s 50K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 2% 413.22 >>KB/s 100K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 3% >>427.35 KB/s .... >> 4500K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 98% 609.76 >>KB/s 4550K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 99% >>561.80 KB/s 4600K .......... .......... .......... >>100% 656.69 KB/s >> >>18:02:39 (563.57 KB/s) - `Firefox%20Setup%201.0PR.exe.2' saved >>[4742005/4742005] >> >>That info could easily be parsed and put into a DB or spreadsheet or >>something else. >> >>Jon >><>< >> >>On Tue, 14 Sep 2004 15:56:58 -0700, JD Austin wrote: >> >> >>>Ed Skinner wrote: >>> >>> >>>>I need something that will (via cron, etc.) run a bandwidth test and log >>>>the results. (Our ISP sucks but we need to document it.) >>>>I'm thinking something command-line, not GUI. >>>>Any suggestions? >>>> >>>> >>>I wrote one several years ago when I had speed choice (now sprint >>>'broadband' direct) for the very same reason. >>>It did a series of tests including downloading different size files and >>>pinging machines via cron. >>>The results including packet loss and other ping statistics were stored >>>in a mysql database. >>>The backend was a few perl scripts and the front end was in PHP. >>> >>>The PHP front end used GD to create graphs on the fly. >>>It was very effective in showing how their network sucked and why :) >>>I was getting packetloss as high as 40% and micro outtages constantly >>> >>>I don't think I have it around anymore but I could help you with the >>>design. >>> >>>JD >>> >>>-- >>>JD Austin >>>Twin Geckos Technology Services LLC >>>email: jd@twingeckos.com >>>http://www.twingeckos.com >>>phone/fax: 480.344.2640 >>> >>> >>> >>>--------------------------------------------------- >>>PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us >>>To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: >>>http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >>> >>> > > > --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss