True, but you can test upload capability basically the same way- All sorts of speedtests do this. Do a FTP upload of a known file, to a server that deletes pipes the entire FTP directory to /dev/null.
-Colin On Jul 8, 2006, at 1:23 PM, David 'Bombe' Roden wrote: > On Saturday 08 July 2006 19:03, Colin Davis wrote: > >> [...] download a testfile from a fast source, such as >> Sourceforge.org, >> and time the download- We can use this to determine the speed of the >> connection, and set bandwidth limits accordingly. > > By that you can only measure the download capacity. Upload capacity > (and > not swamping it) is much more important and varies wildly for a given > download capacity across countries and providers. > > >> -Colin > > David > _______________________________________________ > Tech mailing list > Tech at freenetproject.org > http://emu.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech
