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jason
April 15th, 2003, 23:11
im thinking of switching hosts and i wanted to test the speed of some sites that they host, i used to use netmechanic.com to do this but they want you to pay for the service now. any ideas on how i can do this?
thanks
Dean
April 16th, 2003, 02:10
Ping :)
jason
April 16th, 2003, 03:43
oh yeah, ping. heh, well even then i don't know what all those numbers and such mean.the faster the ping the better the server? and you can't ping a server every hour for 24 hours can you? unless you do it manually?
Jan
April 16th, 2003, 04:15
http://www.hostpulse.com/app/networktools/ping.asp
teppi
April 16th, 2003, 06:17
ping only let you know how close you are to the server, it doesn't really mean a server is faster than the others.:D
sonichost.net
April 16th, 2003, 12:25
it doesn't really mean a server is faster than the others.

Very true.
Daniel
April 16th, 2003, 20:49
Tracert to see what upstream providers they use, then ask the admin to post some wget results from downloading uumap.tar.Z.
Bruce
April 16th, 2003, 20:57
I'm confused here...

Do you want to know the server speed or network speed?
Daniel
April 16th, 2003, 21:10
Well there's no way to test server speed unless you want to benchmark the damn thing.
stabme
April 21st, 2003, 21:50
omg throw it down a bloody window and check the spedometer :mad: