program to test stress a website

Hi

I need to stress test a small website from an external location.
Specifically, by downloading about 5 mp3 files many many times
over the course of about an hour. Not stream the files but actually
download them. I need to do this test multiple times. Can anyone
recommend a free or low cost program that can do this?
I'll be testing from a computer running Windows XP.

Thank you

On Fri, 22 Apr 2005 08:54:16 -0500, Trevor Smithson
<trevor_smithson@yahoo.com> wrote:

>Hi
>
>I need to stress test a small website from an external location.
>Specifically, by downloading about 5 mp3 files many many times
>over the course of about an hour. Not stream the files but actually
>download them. I need to do this test multiple times. Can anyone
>recommend a free or low cost program that can do this?
>I'll be testing from a computer running Windows XP.
>
>Thank you

I usually use wget (part of cygwin, but it can run without a
cygwin bash shell as well) to access websites when I want to
grab and process contents without looking at it.

wget has many commandline options to control its behaviour.
It needs some reading to get it to do what you want it to do,
but it certainly is worth the effort. wget evaluates effective
download speed quite well.

You could check out www.tucows.com , there should be some tools
there as well.

HTH

--
) Kees Nuyt
(
c[_]

Thanks Kess. This is exactly the type of program I'm looking for.

On Fri, 22 Apr 2005 19:14:40 +0200, Kees Nuyt <k.nuyt@nospam.demon.nl>
wrote:

>On Fri, 22 Apr 2005 08:54:16 -0500, Trevor Smithson
><trevor_smithson@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>>Hi
>>
>>I need to stress test a small website from an external location.
>>Specifically, by downloading about 5 mp3 files many many times
>>over the course of about an hour. Not stream the files but actually
>>download them. I need to do this test multiple times. Can anyone
>>recommend a free or low cost program that can do this?
>>I'll be testing from a computer running Windows XP.
>>
>>Thank you
>
>I usually use wget (part of cygwin, but it can run without a
>cygwin bash shell as well) to access websites when I want to
>grab and process contents without looking at it.
>
>wget has many commandline options to control its behaviour.
>It needs some reading to get it to do what you want it to do,
>but it certainly is worth the effort. wget evaluates effective
>download speed quite well.
>
>You could check out www.tucows.com , there should be some tools
>there as well.
>
>HTH