I will not update this blog anymore, but I did continue writing on two other pages.
As a Zen monk, I continue to write on http://zen-temple.net/news and as a programmer I will post on http://200ok.ch.
Thank you for coming here and may you have a good time.
And just saw this nice button asking me to share it – so I’ll do just that^^
If you want to do an ongoing speedtest with graphs for up- and download, forget about the web-based tools like speedtest.net and fast.com – those are nice if you are on mobile. Yet, when you are on a *nix machine, there’s better tooling in your Shell.
First, fire up a Terminal and start `nload` to view network traffic. If you are on macOS, you can also use the graphical tool ‘activity monitor`.
Then, in a second Terminal, start a permanent upload or download with the following commands:
ssh lafo@dublin.zhaw.ch "cat /dev/urandom" > /dev/null
cat /dev/urandom| ssh lafo@dublin.zhaw.ch "cat > /dev/null"
Note that depending on your `ssh` configuration, you might need to disable compression on the client or server side.