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I'd like to test my upload throughput for an extended period such as one or two hours. I realize that this will entail uploading Giga bytes of data and tie up a server -- I'd be willing to pay for such a test. Are there any tools for doing this?

Thanks! btw, the reason for this is that I'd like to see what throughput I am actually getting from Cox Communications. I recently installed some Arlo Pro 4 cameras and found that they dropped offline a lot. In fact I have two cameras that cycle offline and online every couple minutes (even with nothing on the network but one camera, a smartphone (running the Arlo app) and a Netgear WAC120 access point, and router the camera goes offline). So, I tried using my cell phone as a mobile hotspot (which delivered about 80 Mbps down and 50 Mbps up -- and that worked. Arlo then, (unsurprisingly) said that my 150 Mbps down and 10 Mbps up plan from Cox was not enough. Honestly, a 10 Mbps upload should be fine. So, I upgraded to 1 Gbps down and 35 Mbps up Cox plan. The Arlo camera performance is much better, but, even running one camera, it drops offline occasionally. And the network speed seems to drop a bit too sometimes. The speed tests you offer, as well as the automatic ones, are really pretty nice. Still, since it is not continuous, it would miss occasional communications slow downs (which would derail my Arlo camera). And cable plans don't guarantee a minimum throughput unfortunately. So, I would like run a continuous test to document the actual throughput that a real-time devices (like security cameras) have to work with. My application is not critical I suppose. I need the camera to see when our cats show up at our back door to let them in (the occasional snowfalls are hard on them) -- so this is important to us. It is surprising though how many folks complain about WiFi security cameras going offline. It may be just that the ISP is not providing enough upload bandwidth. And I can't get DSL around here which would provide a guaranteed bandwidth.