how to accurately test internet upload & download speed

[JD]

On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 9:38 AM, Matthew Miller <mattdm at fedoraproject.org>
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.


Very useful tools, especially while at hotspot cafe's.
Are there any free public servers for ttcp and iperf?

Thanx!
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