[Gllug] Calculating 'real' bandwidth

Anthony Newman anthony.newman at ossified.net
Tue Mar 13 15:07:10 UTC 2007


Dylan wrote:
>
> That tells us what the current speed is at the time of the test given network 
> conditions. What he wants to know is what the highest speed he can expect 
> under the ideal conditions.

% at 0500
warning: commands will be executed using /bin/sh
at> wget http://www.example.com/largefile 2>&1 | mail -s 'Speed test' 
me at my.domain.com
at>
at <EOT>
job 1 at 2007-03-14 05:00
%


Flippant maybe, but the theoretical limit is probably far from most 
people's reach due to local contention.


Ant
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