[ILUG] bandwidth test

[Brian Foster]

  | Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2006 14:43:14 +0530
  | From: "Anil Kamath" <kamath.anil at gmail.com>
  | 
  | *Hi *
  | **
  | *i am using a 256 kbps shared broadband line and using an ADSL router to
  | connect thru PPoE*
  | *i used an online tool  which gives me this reading the site to test is :
  | http://203.145.184.14/meter.php*
  | **

 actually, that's the site which does the test.
 the site to test — also known as the site under
 test or being testing — is yer own site.

  |[ ... ]
  | I* would like to know how does this tool test my connection bandwidth [ ... ]

 the page initially downloaded is of a known size,
 consisting mostly of a large(!) HTML <!-- comment -->
 filled with (binary) rubbish (and GPL-licensed!).
 the page also contains a short script which measures
 how long it takes to download in wall-clock time.
 from there, it's rather obvious what it should be
 doing (I didn't bother to check this final part).

 I presume other people on the list can tell you
 how to do this better, why it may not mean much
 of anything, and answer yer other questions.

  | incase i plan to use a dedicated one to one 256kbps line *
  | *How sure i am that the total bandwidth is dedicated to me *
  | **

 in yer case, it may just be counting the number of `*'s.
 is there any reason you start and end each line with `*'?

cheers!
	-blf-
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