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Subject: Re: Bandwidth measuring tool From: Ramon Gandia <rfg@nook.net> Date: Thu, 17 Jun 1999 00:26:14 -0800 Ganbold wrote: > At 10:17 AM 6/17/99 +1000, you wrote: > > Tony Johnson wrote: > >> > I want to measure bandwidth which is offered by our > >> > upstream ISP. They offered 128K. Actually I'm doubt > >> > about it. I know that if connection speed of another > >> > web site is slow my connection speed will also slow. > >> > Is there any possibility to measure real bandwidth or > >> > speed of Internet connection? > >Try PathChar at > > http://www.caida.org/Pathchar/ > > > >It's a program that will give you reasonably accurate speed estimates for > >*every* hop between your computer and whichever address you specify. > Thanks for link. But it seems that it is not working. I run it: > > pathchar 202.131.3.90 > pathchar -v 202.131.3.90 You need to run it like this: pathchar -m 1500 202.131.3.90 You need the -m 1500 due to a Linux kernel incompatibility. Be advised, its slow. ON a 56K link took 7 hours to run. ===