> Does anybody know of a custom tag or way that I can periodically
> test my bandwidth?
Bandwidth to where? To ConUs? To Europe?
> We are having a debate here about our DSL speed
That part is easy, all DSL routers/modems have some CLI that gives
detailed statistics about the connection, including speed, attainable
speed, SNR, attenuation etc.
> and I would like to have a way of having a task running in
> the background that will ping a bandwidth meter site and save the
> results to a file/db/etc.
That will only be reliable if the route to the bandwidth metering site
is identical to the route to the destination site you want to
communicate with. Furthermore, most bandwidth meter sites are based on
java(script) and therefore measure just as much the bandwidth as the
speed of the browser/computer.
FTP'ing a reasonably large file (it should max out the connection for
30 seconds or more) is still the preferred way to test, with iPerf as
a second best.
Jochem
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