On 1/1/2011 4:19 PM Jeff Liebermann spake thus:

Incidentally, if you want to do useful performance measuring, with
clues as to what's going on behind the magic curtain, I suggest you
look at IPerf and JPerf.
http://openmaniak.com/iperf.php
http://code.google.com/p/xjperf/

Regarding that: I looked at the first site and am intrigued, but don't
understand something. I see you need a host and client to make this
work, which makes sense, and as you point out you might (or might not)
be able to use someone else's web-based host; but if not, what then? Can
you somehow set up both host and client on your computah and have the
packets make a "round trip"? (Although that would be a problem since I
notice my upload speeds are a lot slower than download.) How would I use
this to test my dial-up connection?

Also, do I want to test using TCP, UDP or both? Which are used when I
talk to my ISP?


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