Latency test
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If i need to test the performance of sites hosted in two locations, from the UAE, what are my options? I can do ping and see the response, but is there any other options? I could see several websites that does latency tests, but from other locations, I want specifically from UAE. Any suggestions?
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www.speedtest.net and www.pingtest.net can be helpful but 'm not sure about banking on the results
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If you have full contro of the systems, you can do some bandwidth testing with iperf / jperf.
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PING is about as good as you are going to get for testing latency as that is all that it tests. Is there a reason that you want more than PING can tell you?
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We are hosting our clients websites in UK, and thinking of moving to Vancouver DC, but wanted to test if there are any issues in accessing sites from UAE.
Vancouver is around 270ms and UK is 140ms, clearly there are difference but wanted to check if there are some more options available to do tests
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@Ambarishrh said:
We are hosting our clients websites in UK, and thinking of moving to Vancouver DC, but wanted to test if there are any issues in accessing sites from UAE.
That's not the same as latency. Although not sure what you will want to test for that. Are the concerns around packet loss, blocked access, etc.?
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Basically how the speed of site access from these two DCs, there is an obvious financial benefit for the company, but that shouldn't affect the clients.
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@Ambarishrh I like monitor.us for this. You can setup a free account and get a single ping monitor from two locations around the world.
Here is the one on our website (hosted on Azure).
Their paid solution is monitis.com
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@JaredBusch I wanted to check it from UAE, as most of our clients are based here, do you know if they have a test location from here, or any part of middle east?
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Here are the choices.
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I am actually doing a page load, not a ping..
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Nice, it has UAE. Let me try this. Thanks a lot @JaredBusch
