Speedtest site that will measure over 300mbs

waso_dude · 12 Sep 2011 at 13:57

speedtest.com can't seem to handle anything over 250mbps so if anyone knows one that will go to something like 1gbps that would be great

Just trying to fault find some internet speeds and with speedtest its not helping

GhostlyPea · 12 Sep 2011 at 14:09

Not sure what the cap is but try downloading the 1GB file from here:

http://www.thinkbroadband.com/download/

- GP

waso_dude · 12 Sep 2011 at 14:54

Appears to cap out about 9mbps so showing 90mb internets

Speedy Pete · 12 Sep 2011 at 14:57

two speedtests at the same time?

Rroff · 12 Sep 2011 at 15:01

Gonna have a hard time finding something that can sustain those kinda speeds - even my gigabit hosted dedicated server struggled to sustain much over 400Mbit/s for most useage (possibly partly IO bottlenecks as it didn't have the fastest HDDs ever) and over any distance of public internet quickly dropped back to around 80-100MBit/s.

GhostlyPea · 12 Sep 2011 at 15:39

Yeah.... not sure in that case to be honest!

- GP

waso_dude · 12 Sep 2011 at 15:50

Yea I thought as much. I'm trying to test network speed for internet access. I know we have 10gb out, and my device i'm testing is attached through 10gb fibre to the firewall - need to test if the firewall is up to the test

#Chri5# · 12 Sep 2011 at 16:21

You will probably need multiple data streams to test the firewall properly.

GhostlyPea · 12 Sep 2011 at 16:45

Indeed. What model of FW is it out of interest?

- GP

waso_dude · 12 Sep 2011 at 16:49

GhostlyPea said:
Indeed. What model of FW is it out of interest?

- GP

Its a Server 2008 x64 based TGM firewall.

derfderfley · 12 Sep 2011 at 18:53

waso_dude said:
Its a Server 2008 x64 based TGM firewall.

Hmm interesting, if you don't mind me asking what sort of cost are you looking at for TGM? And what sort of hardware are you using to try and guarantee 10Gbps worth of Firewall throughput?

As a point of comparison, I don't have a Cisco price list to hand but for a Checkpoint box capable of shipping 10Gbps of firewall throughput your looking at around $56-60k.
Cisco wise you'd be looking at a ASA5585-X with a SSP20 or SSP40 to get to 10Gbps Firewall throughput, I can't see them been any cheaper than the CP box if I'm honest.

asim18 · 12 Sep 2011 at 19:39

I'm sure Speedtest.net can go up to 750mbps. Got that on Greenwich uni's connection, at 4AM though. London server.

Or you could try Usenet. You might need to connect to two or three servers simultaneously. Can do this easily in newsleecher. You'll need a fast hard disk though.

Al Vallario · 12 Sep 2011 at 20:08

waso_dude · 13 Sep 2011 at 09:10

derfderfley said:
Hmm interesting, if you don't mind me asking what sort of cost are you looking at for TGM? And what sort of hardware are you using to try and guarantee 10Gbps worth of Firewall throughput?

As a point of comparison, I don't have a Cisco price list to hand but for a Checkpoint box capable of shipping 10Gbps of firewall throughput your looking at around $56-60k.
Cisco wise you'd be looking at a ASA5585-X with a SSP20 or SSP40 to get to 10Gbps Firewall throughput, I can't see them been any cheaper than the CP box if I'm honest.

Dual i7 Xeons with 32gb ram, just something I had spare to test - before we do possibly have to look at the cisco route.

waso_dude · 13 Sep 2011 at 09:11

Al Vallario said:
Grab http://cachefly.cachefly.net/100mb.test

Averaging 35MB/sec (~280Mbps) from my university server at the moment; have seen higher.

100mb isn't enough to test speeds.

waso_dude · 13 Sep 2011 at 09:11

asim18 said:
I'm sure Speedtest.net can go up to 750mbps. Got that on Greenwich uni's connection, at 4AM though. London server.

Or you could try Usenet. You might need to connect to two or three servers simultaneously. Can do this easily in newsleecher. You'll need a fast hard disk though.

Can't use usenet on Janet connections its againest and TOCs.