simple_tcp_client.py

import socket
import time

HOST = 'localhost'    # The remote host
PORT = 9999
MSGLEN = 100 * 1000 * 1000
# create the socket
s = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM)
# connect to host and port
s.connect((HOST, PORT))
# say what the server should send
s.send('Stuff to send')
msg = ''
starttime = time.time()
# initialize counter
counter = 0
# get the message in chunks
while len(msg) < MSGLEN:
    chunk = s.recv(1000)
    msg = msg + chunk
    #print len(chunk)
    #print "Packet counter: %d" % counter
    counter += 1
print len(msg)
s.close()
endtime = time.time()
print (endtime - starttime)