how to accurately test internet upload & download speed

[Matthew Miller]

On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 09:34:28AM -0600, CS_DBA wrote:
> Is there a accurate way of truly testing what upload and download
> speeds i'm getting?
> I'm running Fedora 20

I've found http://www.speedtest.net/ to be pretty decent. But if you have a
remote server, you can do it yourself pretty easily with the `ttcp` command.

`yum install ttcp`, and then run it with -r for receive mode on one system
and -t for transmit mode on the other end.

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Matthew Miller
<mattdm at fedoraproject.org>
Fedora Project Leader