{"id":275,"date":"2012-04-19T08:47:08","date_gmt":"2012-04-19T08:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.buildingcubes.com\/?p=4"},"modified":"2012-04-19T08:47:08","modified_gmt":"2012-04-19T08:47:08","slug":"speed-testing-an-internet-connection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.voodoo.business\/blog\/2012\/04\/19\/speed-testing-an-internet-connection\/","title":{"rendered":"Speed testing an internet connection"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well, there are a few ways to check the upload \/ Download speed of an internet connection, one way is speedtest.net which uses flash to download a file, and upload a file, both to a server close to you<\/p>\n

On systems where we do not have a browser or do not have a browser that supports flash, one can download a file (With wget\u00a0 on Linux for example), the quest would be this<\/p>\n

You will need a file that is hosted on a network that you know for fact is faster than your own internet connection, for me, i have been using this one very successfully<\/p>\n

cachefly.net 100mb.test<\/a><\/p>\n

So, on a LINUX system, entering<\/p>\n

wget http:\/\/cachefly.cachefly.net\/100mb.test<\/p>\n

On a casual 2.4Mb (That’s Mega Bit not Byte) , it should result in something like this<\/p>\n

---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------\n--2012-04-19 11:41:09--  http:\/\/cachefly.cachefly.net\/100mb.test\nResolving cachefly.cachefly.net... 140.99.93.175\nConnecting to cachefly.cachefly.net|140.99.93.175|:80... connected.\nHTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK\nLength: 104857600 (100M) [application\/octet-stream]\nSaving to: `100mb.test'\n\n 6% [=>                                     ] 6,897,290    284K\/s  eta 5m 41s\n---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<\/pre>\n
While on a much faster connection i have somewhere else (theoretical 100Mb), the results are like this<\/p>\n
--2012-04-19 08:44:20--  http:\/\/cachefly.cachefly.net\/100mb.test\nResolving cachefly.cachefly.net... 140.99.93.175\nConnecting to cachefly.cachefly.net|140.99.93.175|:80... connected.\nHTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK\nLength: 104857600 (100M) [application\/octet-stream]\nSaving to: `100mb.test'\n\n100%[======================================>] 104,857,600 41.2M\/s   in 2.4s\n\n2012-04-19 08:44:22 (41.2 MB\/s) - `100mb.test' saved [104857600\/104857600]<\/pre>\n
There are also other factors in internet connection speed that i will get to soon, for example, latency, and efficient routing.<\/p>\n
things that i will get to when i have the time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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