Thread: [How-To] Speed test your seedbox

Originally Posted by SeedKing

You could also find a large file from lets say a gaming site and just wget it. I use this from time to time for testing since I don't like to install vnc as it uses more resources.

Can you explain some more? What you mean, like downloading a big file, then you can see download speed, how about upload speed then?
Im not so pro at seedboxes....

The best way to test your upload speed is to install VNC and filezilla. Then you upload some files at Filesonic and Wupload (if your box is in europe) and watch the speeds. Their servers have the ability to use all of your upload bandwidth so the results will be accurate enough. Or find a super fast site with torrents like SCC and use autodl-irssi to grab the torrents fast.

Speedtest is not a recommended method because the results are way off. I've seen torrents hitting over 100 MB/s and the maximum i got from a speedtest was like 500 Mbps (~50-60 MB/s). On the other hand, testing my upload on filehosts like Filesonic and Wupload gave me a speed of 70-110 MB/s which is much closer to what i observed while monitoring torrents in rtorrent.

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I installed fluxbox with firefox and just ran a speedtest. Anyway this is on a 2G Box.

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Just incase this happens to anyone else as it did to me. For some reason I didnt have RPMforge installed, which apparently with Centos 6 is needed to install flash, as when I typed in

Code:

yum install flash-plugin

I got an error.

Just follow the link and you will find very easy to follow instructions how to install RPMforge :)
AdditionalResources/Repositories/RPMForge - CentOS Wiki

Code:

wget http://cachefly.cachefly.net/100mb.test

Speedtest for linux. It doesn't need to be all that difficult, and speedtest.net is sh#t anyways. :-\