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Title: 68K Internet Speed Test results...
Post by: giZmo350 on July 15, 2019, 06:12:53 PM
Always tried to find an internet speed test site that didn’t require Java Script to test my AOS 3.X machines - quite unsuccessful. I noticed a program on AmiNet the other day called AmiSpeedTest. Here’s a link…  http://aminet.net/package/comm/net/AmiSpeedTest .  It doesn’t seem to actually use a local or remote file for the test - but gives good results. It seems to be able to connect to different local internet providers randomly. But, that’s a good thing, IMO. Now, on to the test results!

First a benchmark of my internet provider…

(http://ProLapTopShop.com/PICS/A1200-2/Sppedtest-BM.JPG)

1st test is an A1200 with an ACA1233N accelerator and a Netgear 11MB/s wireless card. AOS3.5. Results were 538KB/s Download & 350KB/s Upload.

(http://ProLapTopShop.com/PICS/A1200-2/A1200-1.JPG)
(http://ProLapTopShop.com/PICS/A1200-2/Speedtest-1.JPG)

2nd test is an A1200 with a GVP Typhoon accelerator (in my sig) with a 3COM 3CXE589ET 10MB/s ethernet card (notice X-Jack - NOT a fan!). AOS3.5. Results were 1104KB/s Download & 1190KB/s Upload.

(http://ProLapTopShop.com/PICS/A1200-2/A1200-2.JPG)
(http://ProLapTopShop.com/PICS/A1200-2/Speedtest-2.JPG)

3rd test is an A2000 with Blizz 2060 accelerator (in my sig) with a Individual X-Surf 10/100MB/s ethernet card. AOS3.9. Results were 2210KB/s Download & 1895KB/s Upload.

(http://ProLapTopShop.com/PICS/A1200-2/A2000-1.JPG)
(http://ProLapTopShop.com/PICS/A1200-2/Speedtest-3.JPG)

What do these tests mean? Well, not a whole helluva lot!  :o
But it’s great Amiga fun! Show us your speed test!  8)
Hey, maybe Doug the 10 Minute Retro Guy could create an "in-depth" video for us!?  ;)

BTW, run the CLI program, it's better as it runs in a window. The other program runs full screen.
BTW2, it would be awesome if someone had the talent to animate the program!  :D
BTW3, OS3.9's Unarc program can't unpack the LHA correctly. It's a speedtest program bug. However, using LHA to unpack works fine.

Title: Re: 68K Internet Speed Test results...
Post by: TribbleSmasher on July 15, 2019, 06:41:03 PM
This is quite interesting. And wireless is damn slow, good to know. :)

Do you know the CPU-Load while running those tests?  Especially the XSurf rocks with 2MB/s. :o
Title: Re: 68K Internet Speed Test results...
Post by: giZmo350 on July 15, 2019, 09:38:50 PM
Do you know the CPU-Load while running those tests?

Just for the heck of it, I googled "amiga CPU monitor".
https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&gbv=1&q=amiga+cpu+monitor&oq=&aqs=

I haven't really dug in yet but, it would seem to me that there might be a "real time" CPU monitor to run while the Internet Speed Test is running?  Probably something on AmiNet....  we'll have a look!  ;)
Title: Re: 68K Internet Speed Test results...
Post by: TribbleSmasher on July 15, 2019, 09:46:57 PM
Scout can do it!
Title: Re: 68K Internet Speed Test results...
Post by: giZmo350 on July 15, 2019, 11:44:36 PM
Okay, checked on Scout and it appears that I had downloaded years ago. Fired it up again and all I get in all the fields is [identity.library required] (I had forgotten about that) couldn't figure it out back in the day so I never used it again. I googled for the library but come up empty. Any suggestions? It looks a really useful program!  :D Actually, I'd like to get this program running to see if the Internet Speed Test stresses the CPU....  if at all.  ??? 
Title: Re: 68K Internet Speed Test results...
Post by: paul1981 on July 16, 2019, 11:56:13 AM
Okay, checked on Scout and it appears that I had downloaded years ago. Fired it up again and all I get in all the fields is [identity.library required] (I had forgotten about that) couldn't figure it out back in the day so I never used it again. I googled for the library but come up empty. Any suggestions? It looks a really useful program!  :D Actually, I'd like to get this program running to see if the Internet Speed Test stresses the CPU....  if at all.  ???

That library is included in the Scout_os3 archive on aminet. Try downloading it again. http://m68k.aminet.net/package/util/moni/Scout_os3 (http://m68k.aminet.net/package/util/moni/Scout_os3)
Title: Re: 68K Internet Speed Test results...
Post by: giZmo350 on July 17, 2019, 05:30:47 PM
Back to the Scout program, yeah just had to pop identity.library in libs. All good there. A nice program. As far as CPU use goes while running the Internet Speed Test, yes, it does give the CPU a bit of a workout. Mostly, the lesser the specs of the machine, the more it uses. I assume that depends on bus bandwidth, CPU speed and other factors. The wireless A1200's CPU use jumped as high as 48% (about 12% CPU use at idle). While the A2000 only increased to about 8% (about 3% CPU use at idle). So, thanks for the tip on Scout TribbleSmasher!  :D  @paul1981, revisiting the AmiNet page for Scout made it obvious that all I had to do was add the library!  ;)
Title: Re: 68K Internet Speed Test results...
Post by: beller on July 17, 2019, 06:57:35 PM
Just ran the Speed Test on my A1200 with wired Ethernet connection.  Machine has an '030 Blizzard with Math chip...my average download speed was 2259 kb/s and my average upload speed was 4529 kb/s using Comcast/Xfinity broadband in California.
Title: Re: 68K Internet Speed Test results...
Post by: giZmo350 on July 17, 2019, 08:16:30 PM
Sheeeet! That's better than my Blizz 060! And I have Comcast Bizness!  :D
Title: Re: 68K Internet Speed Test results...
Post by: AndyFC on July 18, 2019, 09:40:55 PM
I've uploaded a video to YouTube which shows AmiSpeedTestCLI running, with Tinymeter showing the CPU usage. It goes up to 100% on upload.

My average download speed is 2342 Kb/s and Average upload speed it 2024 Kb/s.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5B_PwhuR-Po
Title: Re: 68K Internet Speed Test results...
Post by: darksun9210 on October 28, 2019, 03:39:25 PM
ran the speed test on my A4000/040, and found that both the XSurf-100 and mediator with 100meg PCI NIC card i have, were both pretty much level pegging at 1800-2000kb/s on both up and downloads.
I did some digging and found my old Hydranet and ariadne2 cards. worth testing?

Plusnet:- 70down/18up 
Title: Re: 68K Internet Speed Test results...
Post by: klx300r on December 14, 2023, 10:10:03 PM
A4000, X-Surf100, CS-MKIII- 9,295 kb/s download speed and 10,101 kb/s upload speed
A1200, A314-cp, PiStorm32-3A+- 3,171 kb/s download speed and 2,071 kb/s upload speed Note: This is running off the 1200's clockport
Title: Re: 68K Internet Speed Test results...
Post by: Tumbleweed on December 16, 2023, 08:51:40 AM
This is what I get on my A3000T, CSMKII 060 128MB, X-Surf, Roadshow:

Weed
Title: Re: 68K Internet Speed Test results...
Post by: Valiant on December 16, 2023, 05:57:11 PM
@giZmo350

Here are the results for my A1 X1000 running AmigaOS 4.1:


Finding closest server...

   Country: United States
      City: Murray, UT
    Server: UTOPIA Fiber

Starting download test...

    100 kB in  0.652 secs = 1225 kb/s
    400 kB in  0.254 secs = 12579 kb/s
   2000 kB in  1.103 secs = 14499 kb/s
   7000 kB in  3.186 secs = 17573 kb/s
  12250 kB in  5.607 secs = 17475 kb/s
  18375 kB in  8.258 secs = 17799 kb/s
  27562 kB in 13.896 secs = 15867 kb/s

Average download speed = 16428 kilobit/s

Starting upload test...

    100 kB in  0.87  secs = 9166 kb/s
    800 kB in  0.552 secs = 11580 kb/s
   3200 kB in  1.329 secs = 19255 kb/s
  11200 kB in  4.928 secs = 18179 kb/s
  16800 kB in  6.866 secs = 19572 kb/s
  25200 kB in 10.776 secs = 18707 kb/s

Average upload speed = 18678 kilobit/s

Done!
Title: Re: 68K Internet Speed Test results...
Post by: duga on December 16, 2023, 11:02:15 PM
@Valiant: That's not 68k though.
Title: Re: 68K Internet Speed Test results...
Post by: ncafferkey on December 17, 2023, 05:51:30 AM
@giZmo350

Your results confused me initially, until I realised they were probably in kilobits per second. Note that kb is kilobits while kB is kilobytes.

FWIW, I usually speed test Amiga network cards by doing transfers to/from a local FTP server. These are some results I got for 3c589.device:

A1200 '060: 859kB/s upload, 752kB/s download
A1200 '030: 299kB/s upload, 384kB/s download
Title: Re: 68K Internet Speed Test results...
Post by: Valiant on December 17, 2023, 06:12:03 PM
@duga

     Maybe but it's running AmiSpeedTest, a 68k program.   ;)

Title: Re: 68K Internet Speed Test results...
Post by: TribbleSmasher on December 18, 2023, 05:28:01 PM
would be more helpful if the tooltypes were set to Bytes vs Bits imho.