This is the command speedometer that can be run in the OnWorks free hosting provider using one of our multiple free online workstations such as Ubuntu Online, Fedora Online, Windows online emulator or MAC OS online emulator
PROGRAM:
NAME
speedometer - measure and display the rate of data across a network connection
SYNOPSIS
speedometer [options] tap [[-c] tap] ...
DESCRIPTION
Monitor network traffic or speed/progress of a file transfer. At least one tap option (-f,
-rx, -tx) must be entered. Option -c starts a new column, otherwise taps are piled
vertically.
Note: before you use the program, satrt generating traffic by transferring files in/out
e.g. with scp(1) in the network you're measuring.
OPTIONS
-b Use old blocky display instead of smoothed display even when UTF-8 encoding is
detected.
-f filename [size]
Display download speed with progress bar. This option must be used if directly
following another file tap without an expected size specified.
-i interval
Interval in seconds. Examples: 5 or 0.25". Default is 1.
-p Use plain-text display (one tap only).
-rx iface
Display bytes received on network interface.
-tx iface
Display bytes transmitted on network interface.
-z Report zero size on files that don't exist instead of waiting for them to be created
EXAMPLES
How long it will take for my 38MB transfer to finish?
speedometer favorite_episode.rm $(( 38 * 1024 * 1024 ))
How quickly is another transfer going?
speedometer dl/big.avi
How fast is this LAN?
host-a$ cat /dev/zero | nc -l -p 12345
host-b$ nc host-a 12345 > /dev/null
host-b$ speedometer -rx eth0
How fast is the upstream on this ADSL line?
speedometer -tx ppp0
How fast can I write data to my filesystem? (with at least 1GB free)
dd bs=1000000 count=1000 if=/dev/zero of=bigfile &
speedometer bigfile
ENVIRONMENT
None.
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