From: "Matías López Bergero" <mlopezb@udesa.edu.ar>
To: linux-admin@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: how reliable is ping?
Date: Mon, 06 Dec 2004 17:10:54 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <41B4BCCE.5080609@udesa.edu.ar> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <53565.212.251.31.59.1102331431.squirrel@mail.gnet.gr>
If you have a box en the other side I would recommend your this:
http://dast.nlanr.net/Projects/Iperf/
I use this program to measure the bw of my hdlc links.
BR,
Matías.
Alexander Economou wrote:
> My question would be if the dsl you purchased is from the same ISP.If not
> then probably your packets are routed through another network that may
> need more hops to reach the destination network(hypotheticaly
> speaking).There are many possible reasons for your problem.I would suggest
> you to try mtr (available on freshmeat)
>
>
>>Indeed, ping tests latency, not bandwidth. "bing" is an equivalent program
>>for testing bandwidth. but the best way to test it is to find some fast
>>sites and simply download something. typically university ftp sites have
>>quite good bandwidth, like ftp.funet.fi, ftp.sunet.se, etc. those two are
>>up
>>here in scandinavia, it might be best to find one near you.
>>
>>On Mon, Dec 06, 2004 at 11:06:14AM +0100, Marcel Gschwandl wrote:
>>
>>>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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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-12-06 20:10 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
2004-12-06 9:55 ` urgrue
2004-12-06 11:10 ` Alexander Economou
2004-12-06 20:10 ` Matías López Bergero [this message]
2004-12-08 0:37 ` Jeff Woods
2004-12-13 22:28 ` Stephen Samuel
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