bandwidth test for high capacity users

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 01:33:31PM -0400, Madison Kelly wrote:
> ~2MB/sec on two servers. We've got dual gigabit, but we've also got a  
> lot a data going this way and that.
>
> $ wget http://files.syncleus.com/pub/dANN/binary/java_dann-1.0-bin.tar.gz
> --2009-06-29 13:30:20--  
> http://files.syncleus.com/pub/dANN/binary/java_dann-1.0-bin.tar.gz
> Resolving files.syncleus.com... 208.92.233.103
> Connecting to files.syncleus.com|208.92.233.103|:80... connected.
> HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
> Length: 21082543 (20M) [application/x-gzip]
> Saving to: `java_dann-1.0-bin.tar.gz'
>
> 100%[===========================>] 21,082,543  2.04M/s   in 9.8s
>
> 2009-06-29 13:30:30 (2.06 MB/s) - `java_dann-1.0-bin.tar.gz' saved  
> [21082543/21082543]
>
> # wget http://files.syncleus.com/pub/dANN/binary/java_dann-1.0-bin.tar.gz
> --13:31:06--  
> http://files.syncleus.com/pub/dANN/binary/java_dann-1.0-bin.tar.gz
>            => `java_dann-1.0-bin.tar.gz'
> Resolving files.syncleus.com... 208.92.233.103
> Connecting to files.syncleus.com|208.92.233.103|:80... connected.
> HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
> Length: 21,082,543 (20M) [application/x-gzip]
>
> 100%[===========================>] 21,082,543     1.89M/s    ETA 00:00
>
> 13:31:16 (1.97 MB/s) - `java_dann-1.0-bin.tar.gz' saved [21082543/21082543]

Well I only managed to get 3 to 3.6MB/s and that's from a machine with
access to a 1Gbps cogent connection and a 1Gbps orion link.

-- 
Len Sorensen
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