is there a utillity...?

[Ryan Coleman]

Gary,

Keep in mind that their rate and your rate WILL be different. At least a 10% difference, due to TCP overhead. So make sure you test on already compressed data (like an MP3 stream). The more compressed the data the less likely it will go through protocol compression en route.

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Ryan
On Nov 1, 2010, at 10:48 PM, Antonio Olivares wrote:

> On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 10:42 PM, Gary Kline <kline at thought.org> wrote:
>> People, is there a utility to give me the rate of bps that I am
>> _supposed_ to be getting from my telco DSL?
>> 
>> tia,
>> 
>> gary
>> 
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> 
> Try iperf?
> 
> http://www.freebsdsoftware.org/benchmarks/iperf.html
> 
> Used it to test speed on modem connection.
> 
> Hope this helps.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Antonio
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