Test in bold is why you will be typing C:\Users\Joe> ftp Connected to 220 ProFTPD 1.3.4a Server (Debian) ģ31 Anonymous login ok, send your complete email address as your passwordĢ30-The local time is: Sat Oct 17 17:59:15 2015Ģ30-This is an experimental FTP server. Here is a sample session, where we transfer the 20MB file.
You will be connecting via FTP to as user “anonymous” You are asked to provide your email address for the password but you can just type any string of characters.
Windows does not have the curl command installed, so we will need to use FTP.
Windows 7 and up users can just hold down the Windows key and press R to get the Run dialog. From the Start menu choose “Run” and enter the command CMD. Open up the Windows DOS or Command prompt window. So for this test we were getting 6,800 kbps (or 6.8Mbps). Since bandwidth speed is traditionally measured in BITs per second, we need to multiply this by 8. The Average Dload is the number we are interested in. Let’s look at the output: > curl "" -o /dev/null The larger files will take longer to download, but perhaps give you a more accurate average speed. Just adjust the file name above accordingly (i.e. We also have files of 20, 50, 250 and 500Mb sizes. (the command deletes the file when it was been transferred). This will transfer a 100MB file to you computer, but not actually create a disk file. In the new terminal window, paste in this command: You can find this in your Utilities folder, or just used the Spotlight menu to find “Terminal”. To assist in such a test, we have created an anonymous FTP server, and have loaded several files of varying size. This is more reflective of a real-like scenario when you are actually downloading a large file, or streaming a movie. However, a more accurate test involves actually downloading a sizable file and measuring the speed averaged out over a few minutes.
Click to close the Bandwidth Testing Tool window.Many people use speed test websites to measure their connection speed.Download speeds that are under 1 MB/s may indicate a network issue. The suggested download bandwidth minimum is 1 MB/s (equivalent to 8 Mbps). Review the results in the Download Speed field reported in milliseconds.Enter a value in MB between 1-100 in the Payload Size field for the size of the payload you want to use for the bandwidth test.Enter a value between 1-10 in the Number of Tests field for the number of tests that you want to run.The icon appears in the bottom right corner of the viewer and to the left of the layout or related items pane. Click the Launch Bandwidth Tester icon.To execute a download test from the viewer, perform the following steps: If the data send completes, the system measures latency from the moment it sent the request when it receives data. If the directory accepts the request, it generates data that streams to the client via HTTP. When you execute a download test, the system sends a request to the EDDS.Distributed virtual directory, and the directory accepts or rejects it. Measuring download speed with a download test Measuring download speed with a download test.This page contains the following content: