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Test files from reasonably good provider in muslim country?

jsgjsg Member, Resident Benchmarker
edited February 2021 in General

Hello everyone

I'm trying since quite a while to find a reasonably good and reliable provider in between (and including) Turkey and Pakistan (except Israel) who has 100 MB to 1 GB test files for speed testing.

So far I failed. Maybe offering test files somehow doesn't fit with muslim culture, maybe another term than "test files" is used, maybe I'm just too stupid, whatever the reason, I just couldn't find what I'm looking for. I'm not particularly picky regarding the country, any will do but I'd prefer a provider in the gulf region for practical reasons.
I'd also accept a free (it will be used for our community) or very low cost VPS in the gulf region with reliable and good connectivity and a couple of TB volume (max 5 TB and usually more like 1 or 2 TB).

As we have many users from that rather large region maybe some of you can help me.

Thanks

P.S. Despite the title this is not at all about religion, "Muslim" just happens to describe quite well the region I'm interested in as almost all countries there are muslim afaik.

Comments

  • JioJio Member
    edited February 2021

    In many of these countries bandwidth is extremely expensive, even more so if international. I've seen some ISP host local warez mirrors for their customers that are only accesislbe via some 192.168 IP.

    5TB might cost hundreds or more , even 1 TB, why put it on internet for everyone to take?

    Indonesia (VERY muslim!)

    https://lg.smartconnect.id/100MB.test

    http://202.51.57.57/50MB.test

    Pakistan

    https://lg-pk.obhost.org/1GB.test (I think this is LET provider, you can ask them for more )

    Some turkey

    http://178.20.231.236/10000MB.test

    http://tr.hosth.ink/1000mb.bin

    https://lg-tr.hostigger.com/100MB.test

    http://185.65.204.169/1000MB.test

    http://lg.ist.citynethost.com/1000MB.test

    Egypt

    http://lg.cai.citynethost.com/1000MB.test

    Bangla

    http://lg.kloud.net.bd/lg/100MB.test

    I look in the past LEB posts for test files.

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  • JioJio Member
    edited February 2021

    Google has provided haram result while looking for looking glass page!!!

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  • Daniel15Daniel15 Veteran

    Does speedtest.net have any test servers in those regions? If so you may be able to use speedtest-cli to do the test.

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  • jsgjsg Member, Resident Benchmarker
    edited February 2021

    @Jio said:
    [list of hosts]

    Thanks a lot. Most aren't worth a lot or even shady (e.g. not in the country they say they are, lots of packets dropped, etc) but I found one good candidate, albeit a bit slow for serious testing. Thank you for that!

    @Daniel15 said:
    Does speedtest.net have any test servers in those regions? If so you may be able to use speedtest-cli to do the test.

    Thanks, but I use my own benchmark.

  • ehhthingehhthing Member

    You can use speedtest.net servers for this

    To query for servers, you can go to https://www.speedtest.net/api/js/servers?engine=js&search={query}

    For example, https://www.speedtest.net/api/js/servers?engine=js&search=Pakistan, which will respond with some json data.

    Then, you can take a host of any of the servers like and go to

    http://{host}/download?size=1000000000

    You can change the size parameter to whatever you want, its in bytes (so the above is 1GB)

    For example for the host pshspeedtest.ptcl.net.prod.hosts.ooklaserver.net:8080 (PTCL BROADBAND, in Peshawar, Pakistan) you could go to http://pshspeedtest.ptcl.net.prod.hosts.ooklaserver.net:8080/download?size=1000000000 and get a 1GB test file.

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  • DreamCasterDreamCaster Member

    Checked a few famous providers' web sites in Turkey (my homeland). Not found any test file. I believe it is not a usual behaviour here to offer 100 mb or 1 GB test files for potential buyers.

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  • jsgjsg Member, Resident Benchmarker
    edited February 2021

    @ehhthing

    Kindly read the posts before writing. I need http downloadable test files - not something that requires a script.

    @DreamCaster said:
    Checked a few famous providers' web sites in Turkey (my homeland). Not found any test file. I believe it is not a usual behaviour here to offer 100 mb or 1 GB test files for potential buyers.

    So, maybe I'm not completely senile and idiotic after all. Thank you for your readiness to help and your confirmation that - for whatever reason - offering test files seems to be uncommon in that region.

  • ehhthingehhthing Member

    @jsg said:
    @ehhthing

    Kindly read the posts before writing. I need http downloadable test files - not something that requires a script.

    @DreamCaster said:
    Checked a few famous providers' web sites in Turkey (my homeland). Not found any test file. I believe it is not a usual behaviour here to offer 100 mb or 1 GB test files for potential buyers.

    So, maybe I'm not completely senile and idiotic after all. Thank you for your readiness to help and your confirmation that - for whatever reason - offering test files seems to be uncommon in that region.

    These are HTTP downloadable files.... Go to http://pshspeedtest.ptcl.net.prod.hosts.ooklaserver.net:8080/download?size=1000000000 if you don't believe me.

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  • jsgjsg Member, Resident Benchmarker

    @ehhthing said:
    These are HTTP downloadable files.... Go to http://pshspeedtest.ptcl.net.prod.hosts.ooklaserver.net:8080/download?size=1000000000 if you don't believe me.

    Thank you for both your tip/suggestion and your patience with me! I've misunderstood you.
    Unfortunately those servers seem to not be pingable which is a must for me (which I didn't mention in my OP, sorry).

  • EdmondEdmond Member

    @jsg said:

    @ehhthing said:
    These are HTTP downloadable files.... Go to http://pshspeedtest.ptcl.net.prod.hosts.ooklaserver.net:8080/download?size=1000000000 if you don't believe me.

    Thank you for both your tip/suggestion and your patience with me! I've misunderstood you.
    Unfortunately those servers seem to not be pingable which is a must for me (which I didn't mention in my OP, sorry).

    I just pinged the server you quoted in your reply and it's responding to me. Are you sure it's not pingable? It could be something to do with your computer or network.

  • kkrajkkkrajk Member

    https://www.exoticvm.com/ might help

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  • jsgjsg Member, Resident Benchmarker

    @Edmond said:
    I just pinged the server you quoted in your reply and it's responding to me. Are you sure it's not pingable? It could be something to do with your computer or network.

    I tried it both from home and from a Netcup VDS with a a couple of those [someURL]:8080 hosts and the pings failed. Rechecking with mtr showed all (or most) hops fine except for the target.

    @kkrajk said:
    https://www.exoticvm.com/ might help

    Thank you! Nothing I'd be interested in for the current problem but a very interesting list.

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  • EdmondEdmond Member

    @jsg said:

    @Edmond said:
    I just pinged the server you quoted in your reply and it's responding to me. Are you sure it's not pingable? It could be something to do with your computer or network.

    I tried it both from home and from a Netcup VDS with a a couple of those [someURL]:8080 hosts and the pings failed. Rechecking with mtr showed all (or most) hops fine except for the target.

    @kkrajk said:
    https://www.exoticvm.com/ might help

    Thank you! Nothing I'd be interested in for the current problem but a very interesting list.

    Try without the http or the :8080 (so just try to reach pshspeedtest.ptcl.net.prod.hosts.ooklaserver.net). But I do see that the target seems to fail... which is very interesting.

    It's being routed via HE (AS6939) from my ISP (AS852) and I'm getting a response from the destination but when testing from my VPS, it routes it via Cogent (AS174) and that fails at the destination hop. Not sure what's happening...

  • XsltelXsltel Member, Host Rep
    edited February 2021

    not a test file but will do the job.
    http://mirror.earthlink.iq/centos/7.9.2009/isos/x86_64/

    that mirror is from my country Iraq.

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  • jsgjsg Member, Resident Benchmarker

    @Edmond said:
    Try without the http or the :8080 (so just try to reach pshspeedtest.ptcl.net.prod.hosts.ooklaserver.net).

    Thanks, I know the first basic steps on the internet ...

    @Xsltel said:
    not a test file but will do the job.
    http://mirror.earthlink.iq/centos/7.9.2009/isos/x86_64/

    that mirror is from my country Iraq.

    Beautiful! And a nice idea, too. Thanks a lot!
    Do you happen to know the location, the city where that system is?

  • XsltelXsltel Member, Host Rep

    @jsg said: Do you happen to know the location, the city where that system is?

    Yes their main Datacenter is in Baghdad city.

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  • JioJio Member

    @jsg said: I tried it both from home and from a Netcup VDS with a a couple of those [someURL]:8080 hosts and the pings failed. Rechecking with mtr showed all (or most) hops fine except for the target.

    I can most of these. I wonder why ?

    $ ping pshspeedtest.ptcl.net.prod.hosts.ooklaserver.net
    PING pshspeedtest.ptcl.net (182.176.176.14) 56(84) bytes of data.
    64 bytes from 182.176.176.14: icmp_seq=1 ttl=58 time=162 ms
    64 bytes from 182.176.176.14: icmp_seq=2 ttl=58 time=160 ms
    64 bytes from 182.176.176.14: icmp_seq=3 ttl=58 time=160 ms
    64 bytes from 182.176.176.14: icmp_seq=4 ttl=58 time=160 ms

  • ehhthingehhthing Member

    @Jio said:

    @jsg said: I tried it both from home and from a Netcup VDS with a a couple of those [someURL]:8080 hosts and the pings failed. Rechecking with mtr showed all (or most) hops fine except for the target.

    I can most of these. I wonder why ?

    $ ping pshspeedtest.ptcl.net.prod.hosts.ooklaserver.net
    PING pshspeedtest.ptcl.net (182.176.176.14) 56(84) bytes of data.
    64 bytes from 182.176.176.14: icmp_seq=1 ttl=58 time=162 ms
    64 bytes from 182.176.176.14: icmp_seq=2 ttl=58 time=160 ms
    64 bytes from 182.176.176.14: icmp_seq=3 ttl=58 time=160 ms
    64 bytes from 182.176.176.14: icmp_seq=4 ttl=58 time=160 ms

    Yeah, ping.pe isn't showing any issues either http://ping.pe/pshspeedtest.ptcl.net.prod.hosts.ooklaserver.net

  • lokuzardlokuzard Member

    Well, I could hook you up with some test files from Saudi Arabia, but they wear abaya and I'm pretty sure you're not allowed to ping them.

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  • jsgjsg Member, Resident Benchmarker

    @Jio said:

    @jsg said: I tried it both from home and from a Netcup VDS with a a couple of those [someURL]:8080 hosts and the pings failed. Rechecking with mtr showed all (or most) hops fine except for the target.

    I can most of these. I wonder why ?

    @ehhthing said:
    Yeah, ping.pe isn't showing any issues either http://ping.pe/pshspeedtest.ptcl.net.prod.hosts.ooklaserver.net

    My guess is that they allow/respond to pinging only from certain networks. We are talking about countries, where 5 Mb/s and 10 Mb/s VPSs are sold, after all.

    @lokuzard said:
    Well, I could hook you up with some test files from Saudi Arabia, but they wear abaya and I'm pretty sure you're not allowed to ping them.

    Well, I'd love to have a fast and reliable test file source there but if it's not pingable it's not useful for my purpose.

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