[techtalk] Benchmarking, Bandwidth, server speed

[David Merrill]

On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 07:11:18PM -0700, Raven, corporate courtesan wrote:
>      There are a few different ways to test your throughput.  Many ISPs
> will have test files that you can FTP to and from them to use up all
> the available bandwidth.  Or, you can try to pingflood your line 

Try running `bing'. It isn't installed on most distributions but you
can google for it. Of course you have to wade through lots of stuff
about ol' Mr. Crosby, but searching on `linux bing' will reduce that.

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