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Ping fans, be sure to check out bing! Fun stuff and 97.2% accurate (not really)! :)

Bing is a point-to-point bandwidth measurement tool (hence the 'b'), based on ping. Bing determines the real (raw, as opposed to available or average) throughput on a link by measuring ICMP echo requests roundtrip times for different packet sizes for each end of the link.

http://fgouget.free.fr/bing/bing_src-readme.shtml

This looks pretty ancient (source files dated 1997), and won't compile here. Any maintained version?

I'm a fan of nttcp, although it's not based on ping.

http://linux.die.net/man/1/nttcp

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