[Scottish] Network speed testing

[Paul Millar]

On Fri, 17 Jan 2003, Allan Whiteford wrote:
> ftp a big file and sit with a stopwatch.

:^)

<pedantic>
Well, depends what you're after.  TCP can be quite bad at filling the
available b/w, depending on the characteristics of the link. That said,
its probably ok for a wireless link (because their not that fast) but bear
in mind TCP doesn't handle moderate drop-packet-rates well.

Besides, if what you're after is the effective bandwidth when FTPing 
files, then FTPing a file is the best way of measuring this ;^)
</pedantic>


Paul.



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