Are there any services (preferably free) which allow you to enter a URL then proceed to download the file from multiple locations and give you the speeds?
Searching has turned up untold numbers of speedtesters for my connection but NOT for a remote website.
To clarify I am looking for a site which will download a file from another site and report the speed at which it was able to download the file. I am NOT looking for a tool to analyse my HTML / page nor am I looking for a tool to report my connection speed.
I realise very simple shell / php / python script etc could be used but obviously I would then need access to various servers elsewhere to use for benchmarking. The desired answer will be a service which provides said infrastructure.
From the responses and research I have actually found the best solution to be asking simply asking (on forums for example). One of the best forums seems to be: http://www.webhostingtalk.com/forumdisplay.php?s=5338c05a803046bdc4ee4667f37ff834&f=64
jbowes: Thank your for suggesting gomez http://www.compuware.com/application-performance-management/ it looks like it is probably capable of doing what i want but i’ve had no response from them and the lack of pricing on the website suggests it’s probably a no-go.
I also had an idea of writing a php script which can somehow connect to a bunch of server and display some output but i’m not quite sure how it would work (wget / curl work in the wrong direction- i want to see the server’s upload bandwidth rather than download) and i don’t really have to time to spend on it at the moment.