http://www.bitmover.com/lmbench/ wget ftp://ftp.bitmover.com/lmbench/lmbench-*.tgz See SAR section of my file "linux.txt". Curl: Reports in units of Bytes/s, so "40k" would mean "40 KB/s". Can use "-w %{speed_download}\n", but it's easier to just read the "Average Speed Dload" column after completion. Network nuttcp file:///root/downloads/nuttcp-5.3.1/nuttcp.html Just build and copy the man page to /usr/local/man/man8 and the binary to /usr/local/bin/nuttcp http://www.vaughns-1-pagers.com/internet/modem-speeds.htm http://www.cable-modem.net/perf.html Due to firewall rules, can only "nuttcp -t..." and curl from marduk. Nothing else works for marduk. Can do anything to/from/tiamat. Fri Jul 11 17:13:55 EDT 2008 nuttcp tests 2.7 Mbps, 2.6 Mbps kattare -> aa 2.7 Mbps, 2.9 Mbps, .84 Mbps, 2.7 Mbps kattare -> admc .65 Mbps, .59 Mbps aa -> admc 79 Kbps, .34 Mbps, .15 Mbps, .17 Mbps admc -> aa .14 Mbps admc -> johnco .72 Mbps aa -> johnco 10.8 Mbps, 11.1 Mbps kattare -> johnco .23 Mbps admc -> johnco curl tests 44 KB, 21 KB admc -> aa 348 KB, 350 KB, 350 KB kattare -> aa 290 KB johnco -> aa 1.4 MB, 1.2 MB kattare -> johnco 810 KB johnco -> kattare 280 KB kattare -> admc 210 KB johnco -> admc Fri Aug 1 15:32:09 EDT 2008 nuttcp tests 5.0 Mbps, 5.1 Mbps kattare -> Comcast 2.1 Mbps, 2.8 Mbps kattare -> admc .33 Mbps, .34 Mbps admc -> johnco .85 Mbps, .86 Mbps Comcast -> johnco curl tests 373 KB/s, 370 KB/s, 372 KB/s, kattare -> admc 640 KB/s, 640 KB/s, kattare -> Comcast Tue Sep 9 19:16:18 EDT 2008 .33 Mbps, .38 Mbps admc -> kattare 1.9 Mbps, 2.5 Mbps kattare -> admc Tue Sep 23 17:51:19 EDT 2008. Immediately after setting up permanent Comcast connection at admc. .83 Mbps, .86 Mbps admc -> kattare 3.6 Mbps, 2.8 Mbps kattare -> admc Wed Jul 8 16:32:06 EDT 2009. See note above about marduk/tiamat constraints. .33-.42 Mbps Balder <--> marduk,tiamat. nuttcp -t 35-48 KB/s Curl pulling to marduk. No better w/ tiamat Sun Jul 12 15:54:36 EDT 2009 Nuttcp WORKS IN BOTH DIRECTIONS TODAY! .73 Mbps tiamat,marduk -> balder 2.8 Mbps balder -> tiamat tiamat -> 71.166.236.1 pings ~ 24 ms., traceroute ~ 23.7 ms. tiamat -> 130.81.11.5 (nest hop) pings ~ 24.5 ms., 24.0 ms. balder -> tiamat traceroute hits 130.81.11.2 in 90 ms. tiamat -> balder traceroute hits 204.13.9.99 at kattare in 115 ms. Wed Aug 4 18:51:52 EDT 2010 .64 Mbps marduk -> balder. nuttcp -t 2.49 Mbps balder -> tiamat. nuttcp -t Linux CPU benchmarking, per http://duguo.org/kb/server/test/simple_linux_benchmark.html CPU time echo 'scale=5000; a(1)*4' | bc -l > /dev/null # real! time Disk dd bs=1M count=5000 if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/dd.test # Need a way to get a 5 GB file onto disk without caching it. dd bs=1M if=/tmp/dd.test of=/dev/null rm -f /tmp/dd.test system CPU(s) disk w disk r ------ ------ ------ ------ beyla 29 (as of 2013, 4 AMD A8-3850 cores) onella 30 49 42 bmc lt vm 27 391 453 suse vm 29 balder 38 (AMD Athlon 64 X2 cores) cmdb 31 nothing running. Regardless of cores 1,2x1,2x2 t2.small 23 28 64 old mag./standard ebs m4.2xlarge 22 2048 6656 gp2 addm10 fm 33 41 73 ESXi VM I/O Units MB/s Sun Jul 28 10:54:33 EDT 2013 www.speedtest.net to Ashbvurn, VA: Ping / DL / UL = 39 ms / 7.83 Mbps / 2.88 Over DSL? Testing bandwidth to and from EC2 and Lunacloud. Sun Sep 1 15:44:42 EDT 2013 BENCHMARKING. All for 100 MB file 35 KB/s scp home->ec2 over DSL 27 kB/s curl ec2->home over DSL 37 KB/s scp home->luna over DSL 39 kB/s sftp home>sftp.bmc.com over DSL 2014-03-19 45 kB/s web home>box.com DSL 2014-03-20 ~ 44 on 2014-03-21 129 kB/s curl luna->home over DSL. Repeat 178 kB/s 180 kB/s sftp sftp.bmc.com>home over DSL 2014-03-20 173 kB/s sftp luna>home over DSL 2014-03-20 253 KB/s scp home>ec2 over Mifi 486 kB/s curl ec2->home over Mifi 305 KB/s scp home>luna over Mifi 538 kB/s curl luna>home over Mifi. Repeat 657 kB/s. 488 kB/s psftp sftp.bmc.com>home over Mifi 2014-03-20 1889 kB/s web box.com>home over Mifi 2014-03-21 359 kB/s web box.com>home over DSL 2014-03-21 (381 with laptop) 3.95 Mb/s web home>box.com over Cable modem 2014-03-31 Frontier DSL. Paying for High Speed Internet Max. High Speed Loop Max. Call Frontier and find out what rates "High Speed Internet Max" gets. "Speed up to 6 Mbps / 1 Mbps" Empirically I am getting 2.9 Mbps down + 0.37 Mbps up. Comcast Blast! Plus 60/month for first 12 months. Blast! to existing account $40/mo. "Up to" 50 Mbps down/10 Mbps up. 23.39/4.88 actual on first day. Installed for 2014-03-28. ZyXEL BRG35503 2014-02-11 DSL Benchmarking http://frontier.com/helpcenter/test-your-speed 3.04 Mbps down; 0.37 Mbps up; 20 ms latency, 1 ms jitter 57 KB/s scp home->luna over DSL. 10 MB file. 353 KB/s scp luna->home over DSL. 8 MB file. Fri Mar 21 11:45:18 EDT 2014 When healthy. test-your-speed 2.9 Mbps download = 381 KB/s download. 34 ms latency 0.37 Mbps upload - 47.4 KB/s upload. 20 ms latency Mon Mar 24 16:07:55 EDT 2014. Ditto 2.93 Mbps down 0.35 Mbps up Fri Mar 28 17:40:37 EDT 2014. Using fronter.com test with Comcast cable modem. 23.39 Mbps down 4.88 Mbps up Sat Mar 29 21:34:37 EDT 2014 Cable modem 24.0/4.7 speedtest.net 35.5/5.6 MiFi from BMC Laptop wireless frontier test 17.1/1.25 Cable modem from BMC Laptop ethernet speedtest.net 35.5/4.3 Cable modem from BMC Laptop wireless frontier test 1.3/4.2 speedtest.net 1.6/3.7 Tue Apr 15 17:05:45 EDT 2014 Cable modem from BMC Laptop over ZyXEL WAP test 35.4/4.3 Sat Mar 31 20:29:58 EDT 2018 Comcast speed test 67.19 Mbps download + 13.18 Mbps upload speedtest.net says 70.44 down + 11.91 up "Blast" speed says $59.99. $59.99 Blast! Internet : – Offer ends 03/31/18. Restrictions apply. Not available in all areas. New residential customers only. Limited to Blast! Internet service. Equipment, installation, taxes and fees extra, and subject to change during and after the promo. After promo, regular rates apply. Comcast's monthly service charge for Blast! Internet is $92.95 (subject to change). 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