Re: Measuring bandwidth

Fred Baker <fred@cisco.com> Sun, 12 May 2002 18:48 UTC

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Subject: Re: Measuring bandwidth
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At 06:11 PM 5/5/2002 -0400, Vishnepolsky, Oleg wrote:
>Has anyone tackled these issues, say, with web servers ? Surely this is a
>very practical matter. If you serve images, you want to server "nicer"
>versions to folks with higher bandwidth.

personally, I would measure the average rate at which I can deliver a TCP 
file of a known size. This factors in implementation issues in the two 
TCPs, bandwidth, delay, and loss rate.

Measuring bandwidth Vishnepolsky, Oleg
Re: Measuring bandwidth Alan Cox
Re: Measuring bandwidth Bogdan Ghita
Re: Measuring bandwidth Fred Baker