Command-line speed test?

Wed Jul 9 00:45:23 UTC 2008

Robert Holtzman wrote:
> On Tue, 8 Jul 2008, Schiz0 wrote:
> 
>> Install a bittorrent client (rTorrent is very good). Get a popular
>> linux ISO torrent, or a OpenOffice torrent or something. Open that in
>> the client, then see what the download speed maxes out to.
> 
> Except that some ISP's throttle bittorrent downloads assuming they're 
> illegal music or video transfers.
> 
True, if you have residential or non-dedicated business broadband. Not 
true, if your paying for full on dedicated bandwidth. Of course it would 
depend on your Service Level Agreement.