how to accurately test internet upload & download speed

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On 10.07.2014 17:38, Matthew Miller wrote:
> 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.
>

Last time I used this tool.
And it's all on one page! :)
https://iperf.fr

and

SpeedOf.Me is an HTML5 Internet speed test. No Flash or Java needed! :)
http://speedof.me

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