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%20Setup%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
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On Tue, 14 Sep 2004 15:56:58 -0700, JD Austin <
jd@twingeckos.com> 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
>
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