wget Bandwidth Testing

Bandwidth Testing With wget When it comes to performance testing there is no shortage of tools and techniques. To make it a bit easier, I suggest you determine the goal and reason for your testing. For example if you wanted throughout and packet loss over a wireless network to illustrate radio signal, iperf or iperf3 is the way to go since it runs in memory. But if you wanted to measure the true performance of a webserver you would want to include the latency introduced by its storage system and load. In this example, you want to download a file from the server. Here is where a tool like wget comes in. Wget is a free command line tool used to retrieve files over HTTP, HTTPS, FTP and FTPS protocols. In this video I show you how to get up and running with wget and how the –limit-rate option works. I also explain how a simple batch file can be used to automate the testing.  Website https://www.gnu.org/software/wget  You can get it at https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/wget/  Windows binaries https://eternallybored.org/misc/wget/

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