From: Helge Pettersen <tubamann@gmail.com>
To: Luca Ferrari <fluca1978@infinito.it>
Cc: linux-admin@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: how reliable is ping?
Date: Mon, 6 Dec 2004 10:29:21 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <e29bf9c504120601297860275b@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200412061019.19099.fluca1978@infinito.it>
Ping is supposed to show the network speed, but I wouldn't rely on it.
Use some http-based service (a java applet that measures the times it
takes to download a specific image, and shows the bandwith).
It's the best to find someone with a huge line, however I don't know
of any in italia. If you dare, try looking around at itavisen.no (a
norwegian crappy it newspaper with a huge bandwith to test that), and
manuovre to "speedometeret" and "trykk her for A ta testen".
On Mon, 6 Dec 2004 10:19:19 +0100, Luca Ferrari <fluca1978@infinito.it> wrote:
> Hi,
> in my company we installed a new DSL line, supposed to be faster than the
> previous one. And in fact it seems to be, in interactive use, but if I use
> ping to test connectivity against the old line I can see higher times. So my
> questions is: why does ping show high times and then the line goes faster? Is
> ping reliable enough to test network speed, or should I use another tool? (at
> last, a chrono and a file transfer!)
>
> Thanks,
> Luca
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> Luca Ferrari,
> fluca1978@infinito.it
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-12-06 9:29 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 [this message]
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
2004-12-08 0:37 ` Jeff Woods
2004-12-13 22:28 ` Stephen Samuel
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