On Thu, 14 Mar 2002, apostolus wrote: > I'm having some probs with my Blueyonder Cable Modem and the back end > support do not support Linux.. (SuSE 7.2). Does anyone know of a way of > testing the speed of Cable modem..?
I've not done this myself, but according to people that take network bandwidth very seriously, iperf is the utility of choice: http://dast.nlanr.net/Projects/Iperf/ Point it at whatever router is on the opposite end of your cable; but be careful: it uses all available bandwidth. I'm sure anyone sharing your cable won't be too pleased if you keep it cranked on for any length of time. The other thing is that it will generally over-estimate throughput. You're actual throughput when doing an FTP might be lower. If you want real world throughput, you can just time how long it takes to download a big file from somewhere really close to the server. HTH, Paul. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Paul Millar yo-yo, n. : Particle Physics Theory Group Something that is occasionally Department of Physics and Astronomy up but normally down. University of Glasgow, (see also Computer) Glasgow G12 8QQ, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Scotland +44 (0)141 330 4717 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ -------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.lug.org.uk http://www.linuxportal.co.uk http://www.linuxjob.co.uk http://www.linuxshop.co.uk --------------------------------------------------------------------
