Server upload bandwidth testing

bandwidthtesting

I'm looking for a tool (not AB, or any stress-test) that can simply test my server's external (overseas) upload bandwidth. The machine's location is at Europe but i'd like to test my speed to America.

I don't like to provide an url because of unnecessary load but if no tool exists i'd be happy if someone can measure it for me.

Thanks!

EDIT: Some refinement. This is a Linux-based server and i don't like to install any 3rd party apps for this simple task if possible.

EDIT2: It would be helpful too if someone (from US) can pull an iso file from my server so i can determine my upload speed to that direction.

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www.speedtest.net from the server itself. It can check the bandwidth to multiple locations.

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Centos – Rsync Throttle Upload Bandwidth –bwlimit=KBPS

I tested with this extensively while I was setting up my in house yum repositories.

This option seems to be intended - and in my opinion much more useful for - daemon mode but it does work correctly between local files and over SSH as well.

In your case the following should work.

rsync --bwlimit=x -avz -e 'ssh' someuser@server1.example.com:/var/www/* /var/www/

The big thing to note is that the bwlimit option takes kilobytes per second not kilobits per second. That caused me some headaches until I reread the man page.

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