Game Development Reference
In-Depth Information
Testing and benchmarking your network
These are essential tests that can be carried out to troubleshoot network problems,
but there are also some advanced techniques to benchmark your network.
Basic tests
The simplest way to check whether you are connected to the Internet is to ping a
remote address.
We can ping
http://google.com
, but we can also use the shorthand method and
a quicker address,
8.8.8.8
, which is Google's public DNS server. This IP address
will resolve to the nearest Google DNS server in your area, and even if it goes down,
there are many backup servers, making this a reliable test.
ping -c 1 www.google.com
ping -c 1 8.8.8.8
A ping can help you determine whether you have access to the public network.
You may want to see how fast you can download files to the Pi. We use the popular
http://speedtest.com
server to help us with this directly in the command line.
wget --output-document=/dev/null
http://speedtest.wdc01.softlayer.com/downloads/test500.zip
