(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 <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
>>>
>>>--
>>>JD Austin
>>>Twin Geckos Technology Services LLC
>>>email: jd@twingeckos.com
>>>http://www.twingeckos.com
>>>phone/fax: 480.344.2640
>>>
>>>
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