Kevin Brosius on Wed, 8 Nov 2000 08:59:08 -0500 (EST)


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Re: [PLUG] Bandwidth tester


You might want to check out http://www.dslreports.com/tools and try
their speed test center, although maybe it doesn't cover your internal
use needs.

Kevin


Adam Preset wrote:
> 
> Anyone seen a client bandwidth tester like this
> 
>         http://www.info-techs.com/speedtest.html
> 
> done under open source?  I could reproduce their ASP methods with PHP, but
> the content is copyright MSN.  That's the content, not the idea.  If the
> general feeling is that it would be all right to redevelop this with PHP,
> then I would just do that.
> 
> This would be a testing tool for clients who have nothing more than a
> browser -- okay, a computer, too -- to see how much internal bandwidth
> they have available within our site.  Ideally, we'd then share this
> with a couple of our peer schools and allow users at any site to do a
> point-to-point bandwidth test.
> 
> Any solutions that are platform specific or require specific client
> software wouldn't work for us.  I wonder if any of you folks who work
> for ISPs might now already have a similar tool.
> 
> --
> Adam Preset <preset@swarthmore.edu>
> Swarthmore College
>


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