On March 25, 2013, Andrews, David B (DEED) wrote: > All the tests I have seen are web based, so the OS on the machine > is not a consideration. There are a number of them, but many require Flash to be installed, and a GUI as well. It's nice to have a way to test the speed even if you don't have a GUI with Flash installed. The youtube-dl plus "iftop" pairing mean I can do a test even from my headless machines. Alternatively, if you have a large file out there behind a fat connection, you can just use "wget" which usually reports the download speed as part of its output. -tim _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list