The speedtest.net site has a free mini edition (http://www.speedtest.net/mini.php) you can download and extract to some http available path (asp, php, jsp all supported). It's a flash applet, easy to wrap into your own page. Transfers one of ten large JPG files of random noise (largest is 31MB). IIRC, it somehow does a pretest to select a file that should take > 10 seconds. If you're connected at >100Mbit to the hosting server then the results are rather bogus (not enough time in flight to get any meaningful averages). Demos (found via google): https://test.kems.net/ http://speedtest.qualitynet.net/ http://speedtest.fsr.com/ Pros: not a java applet Cons: adobe flash applet On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 4:37 PM, Scott Weeks <surfer@mauigateway.com> wrote:

------------------------ You might want to consider putting up a speedtest server internal to your network. I know there is a fee but well worth it I believe. You will ------------------------

I would consider NDT as well: www.internet2.edu/performance/ndt

Last I checked, about 3 years ago, speedtest sent only latin text in large packets. NDT tests much more. The customers just use a web browser and the only caveat is they need to have Java working.

Here's one to get a feeling of what your customers will see: http://ndt.anl.gov:7123

scott

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