Some network benchmarks

I wanted to see how fast my rack is. Now, I think that one of my shares is doing a bittorrent at the same time, so this is a conservative test. For most of these, I’m doing a wget of the Rochester Road Runner speed test file at http://speedtest.rochester.rr.com/testlarge.zro

• From RR.com to my home machine: 19:12:13 (392.85 KB/s)
• From RR.com to my rack: 19:02:44 (493.74 KB/s)
• From my rack to my home machine: 20:00:30 (364.74 KB/s)

(Yeah, I know the times and the given KB/s values don’t make sense. I just report them as wget reports them.)

That’s not bad. I think it shows that the rack system can keep the 10BaseT network connection pretty saturated. Both up and down.