diff --git a/cmd/sendblob.go b/cmd/sendblob.go
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..9668e92
--- /dev/null
+++ b/cmd/sendblob.go
@@ -0,0 +1,41 @@
+package cmd
+
+import (
+	"crypto/rand"
+
+	"github.com/lbryio/reflector.go/reflector"
+
+	log "github.com/sirupsen/logrus"
+	"github.com/spf13/cobra"
+)
+
+func init() {
+	var cmd = &cobra.Command{
+		Use:   "sendblob ADDRESS:PORT",
+		Short: "Send a random blob to a reflector server",
+		Args:  cobra.ExactArgs(1),
+		Run:   sendBlobCmd,
+	}
+	rootCmd.AddCommand(cmd)
+}
+
+func sendBlobCmd(cmd *cobra.Command, args []string) {
+	addr := args[0]
+
+	c := reflector.Client{}
+	err := c.Connect(addr)
+	if err != nil {
+		log.Fatal("error connecting client to server", err)
+	}
+
+	blob := make([]byte, 1024)
+	_, err = rand.Read(blob)
+	if err != nil {
+		log.Fatal("failed to make random blob", err)
+	}
+
+	err = c.SendBlob(blob)
+	if err != nil {
+		log.Error(err)
+	}
+}
diff --git a/reflector/client.go b/reflector/client.go
index 6ea6e55..3fe6cc9 100644
--- a/reflector/client.go
+++ b/reflector/client.go
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ func (c *Client) SendBlob(blob []byte) error {
 		return errors.Err("blob is empty")
 	}
 
-	blobHash := getBlobHash(blob)
+	blobHash := BlobHash(blob)
 	sendRequest, err := json.Marshal(sendBlobRequest{
 		BlobSize: len(blob),
 		BlobHash: blobHash,
diff --git a/reflector/server.go b/reflector/server.go
index 05f2fa2..ef7e621 100644
--- a/reflector/server.go
+++ b/reflector/server.go
@@ -191,16 +191,16 @@ func (s *Server) receiveBlob(conn net.Conn) error {
 
 	blob, err := s.readRawBlob(conn, blobSize)
 	if err != nil {
-		return err
+		return errors.Prefix("error reading blob "+blobHash[:8], err)
 	}
 
-	receivedBlobHash := getBlobHash(blob)
+	receivedBlobHash := BlobHash(blob)
 	if blobHash != receivedBlobHash {
 		return errors.Err("hash of received blob data does not match hash from send request")
 		// this can also happen if the blob size is wrong, because the server will read the wrong number of bytes from the stream
 	}
 
-	log.Debugln("Got blob " + blobHash[:8])
+	log.Infoln("Got blob " + blobHash[:8])
 
 	if isSdBlob {
 		err = s.store.PutSD(blobHash, blob)
@@ -337,7 +337,7 @@ func (s *Server) quitting() bool {
 	}
 }
 
-func getBlobHash(blob []byte) string {
+func BlobHash(blob []byte) string {
 	hashBytes := sha512.Sum384(blob)
 	return hex.EncodeToString(hashBytes[:])
 }