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From: Marcel Gschwandl <tautau@gmx.ch>
To: linux-admin@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: how reliable is ping?
Date: Mon, 6 Dec 2004 11:06:14 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200412061106.15069.tautau@gmx.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <60a7468904120601384fa86783@mail.gmail.com>

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IMHO ping isn't even meant to be used for bandwidth testing as it only shows 
roundtrip times which have nothing to do with bandwidth but with latency.
So if you want to test your bandwidth you will have to use the already 
mentioned websites.

hth
Marcel

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  reply	other threads:[~2004-12-06 10:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-12-06  9:19 how reliable is ping? Luca Ferrari
2004-12-06  9:29 ` Helge Pettersen
2004-12-06  9:38   ` Adrian C.
2004-12-06 10:06     ` Marcel Gschwandl [this message]
2004-12-06  9:55       ` urgrue
2004-12-06 11:10         ` Alexander Economou
2004-12-06 20:10           ` Matías López Bergero
2004-12-08  0:37       ` Jeff Woods
2004-12-13 22:28 ` Stephen Samuel

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