[Gllug] Calculating 'real' bandwidth

[John Hearns]

Chris Jones wrote:
> Hi
> 
> Dylan wrote:
>> A friend of mine wants to know what the maximum useful bandwidth of his 8meg 
> 
> Tell him to download a large file from a few fast UK mirrors and see how
> fast it goes.
> 
Or indeed to run Netperf http://www.netperf.org/netperf/

I guess though that the server machine should be on a reasonable high 
bandwidth leased line, ie. much higher bandwidth than the home ADSL.
If you were to run it between two different home ADSL links you wouldn't 
be measuring solely that one line.

(Netperf is a client-server utility. You designate one machine as a 
server, and run another copy of netperf on the client)
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