I see many tools that have been discussed for 'proper' bandwidth monitoring and testing – but I am wondering what people use 'in a pinch'? Particularly on systems that they may not easily have admin privileges on?
I am mainly looking for Internet tests. Speedtest.net works in most cases, but it relies on flash – not something that is always available, particularly when rdc'ing into servers.
Anyone have reliable equivalents that will run very lightly? I know they won't give reliable data like ipcop, ntop, ipaudit, bandwidthD when properly configured, but sometimes we just want to make sure things are connected…
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I like DSLReports. They've consolidated several speedtests. Good for quickly going to and finding one if your computer isn't liking one of the tests. There must be over 200 different sites to try. The IPhone one looks HTML only. Unless I'm missing something.