On Mi, 23 dec 20, 19:27:49, David Wright wrote: > > I thought Michael Stone had already covered that, by suggesting sparse > files (with which I'm not familiar) and /dev/null for conducting his > encryption tests. I don't think any other posts had covered what's > *between* the PCs, rather than in them. > > Common sense would dictate against using SD cards etc for testing > network speeds (unless, say, you were using such files), because you > obviously want to reduce to a minimum the number of points of weakness > (ie slowness), testing the speed of just one link in the chain at a time. I was rather referring to real use ;) Speed tests under optimized conditions do have their purpose (e.g. is my network interface working properly?[1]), but they might be misleading when the bottleneck for real world transfers is elsewhere (like the limited storage options on the PINE A64+). [1] Especially for the PINE A64+, which did have some troubles with the network interface due to a hardware bug. Fortunately the issue was identified and corrected in later batches. Kind regards, Andrei -- http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser
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