[73404] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: bandwidth test
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David A. Ulevitch)
Fri Aug 20 21:00:12 2004
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Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2004 17:59:30 -0700 (PDT)
From: "David A. Ulevitch" <davidu@everydns.net>
To: nanog@merit.edu
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>quote who="Bubba Parker">
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> Recently my DS3 has been turned up to 8 megabits. How can I test to see if
> I can actually achieve that throughput?
> Online bandwidth test sites are only good for up to 5mb at the most, and
> my upstream doesn't have a method to test that.
We've been LART'ing some of our colo clients lately for running bittorrent
trackers[1]. They seem to have no problem filling a 10mbps port rather
quickly.
-davidu
1: we do not run a commercial colo. our AUP does not allow this behavior.
no need to create a separate discussion about this. eof. :)
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