I set up QoS to stop all other network traffic while the speed tests were running (priority of packets to/from test server is highest possible, all other packets have lowest possible priority), so the results are not influenced by my network traffic. On the day with the lowest peak, I wasn't even home!

4/28/2010 10:42:41 PM

but not as well as you.

4/28/2010 10:43:18 PM

ooooooooooooooooooooooooohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

4/28/2010 10:45:23 PM

4/28/2010 10:48:01 PM

I ran speed tests every 30 minutes.

I get Roadrunner "Standard" 7Mbps. "Turbo boost" (which artificially inflates bandwidth test results) is why the speeds exceed that at times.

4/28/2010 10:49:29 PM

i would kill for roadrunner

DL 1.63 Mbps
UL 0.24 Mbps
ping 127

4/28/2010 10:57:33 PM

4/28/2010 11:07:51 PM

what were you using to test? I'd like to run this on my server and see how the datacenter is doing

[Edited on April 28, 2010 at 11:14 PM. Reason : V ,yea - thanks though I've just downloaded 2 tools. Virus scanning them fags right now ]

4/28/2010 11:10:00 PM

nm

[Edited on April 28, 2010 at 11:12 PM. Reason : think you meant the op]

4/28/2010 11:11:45 PM

I just wrote a script that uses `wget` (Linux) in a loop to download a file from a CDN and parses the results. I tested the bandwidth from other locations to ensure that the server wasn't the one causing the problem. It was able to support > 10Mbps downloads from other locations on 4/24 when my internet connection wasn't even usable. I also tested from my connection to other servers with similar results.

4/30/2010 7:24:47 PM

update:

4/30/2010 10:31:01 PM

lemme holla at that script. I'm running linux and I'm too lazy to write a script you've already written. I'm also too lazy to put my own file on my own server so.......

Actually I may back up and do this in Java... Might run it on the WDTV or N810 instead of the laptop.

5/1/2010 1:29:59 AM

Lazy fuck

#! /bin/sh

thefile="path to the file you want to download"

while [ 1 ]
do
  wget $thefile -o log.txt -O /dev/null
  cat log.txt | tail -n 2 | head -n 1 | cut -c1-30 | sed "s/[()]//g" | awk '{if ($4=="MB/s") { factor=1/8 } else {factor=128}; $3=$3/factor; if ($3 < 0.1) {$3=0; suffix=""} else {suffix="Mbps"}; printf "%-12s %-10s %2.3f %-4s\n",$1,$2,$3,suffix}' >> ~/history.txt
  rm log.txt
  tail -n 1 history.txt
  sleep 1800
done

5/2/2010 6:50:44 AM

Why use sleep instead of crontab?

5/2/2010 7:01:42 AM

million ways to get things done in sh.


and

5/2/2010 9:24:55 AM

Wile E. Coyote > Roadrunner

5/2/2010 11:41:51 AM

5/2/2010 5:30:20 PM