Ping is supposed to show the network speed, but I wouldn't rely on it. Use some http-based service (a java applet that measures the times it takes to download a specific image, and shows the bandwith). It's the best to find someone with a huge line, however I don't know of any in italia. If you dare, try looking around at itavisen.no (a norwegian crappy it newspaper with a huge bandwith to test that), and manuovre to "speedometeret" and "trykk her for A ta testen". On Mon, 6 Dec 2004 10:19:19 +0100, Luca Ferrari <fluca1978@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > in my company we installed a new DSL line, supposed to be faster than the > previous one. And in fact it seems to be, in interactive use, but if I use > ping to test connectivity against the old line I can see higher times. So my > questions is: why does ping show high times and then the line goes faster? Is > ping reliable enough to test network speed, or should I use another tool? (at > last, a chrono and a file transfer!) > > Thanks, > Luca > -- > Luca Ferrari, > fluca1978@xxxxxxxxxxx > > - > : send the line "unsubscribe linux-admin" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-admin" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
