[Tfug] A very nice bandwidth test page...

[Garrett Hoxie]

12044 / 1069 on Cox Premium.  It's nice that they have a Scottsdale
server to test on.  I can't remember finding any on DSL reports or
anywhere else that were closer.

-Garrett

On 2/25/07, Jeremy D Rogers <jdrogers at northwestern.edu> wrote:
> Ya, I just got DSL last month from AT&T and once connected, they
> actually pointed me to that speedtest.net as well: 1302 kbps down, 308
> kbps up
> When I'm on campus at Northwestern: 5103kbps down, 4214kbps up
> What is interesting is that I wanted to see how UA compared since UA
> is internet2. So I SSHed in forwarding X and fired up firefox: 209kbps
> down, 4909kbps up. I could imaging this might in part be due to the
> traffic required for forwarding X, but why the disparity between up
> and down. If anything, I would have expected the up to be hurt the
> most since that's the direction of all the data for X forwarding. When
> I wget or apt-get, I usually see around 750kBps or 6mbps down.
>
> Bowie: What exactly are you 'tweaking'?
>
> > > > (7247kb per sec down / 732kb per sec up... so far. Still tweaking my
> > > > gear for performance. Ha!)
>
>
> On 2/25/07, Benjamin Krein <superbenk at superk.org> wrote:
> > 15552 kbps down and 1806 kbps up ... YAY! for fiber-to-the-home (Verizon
> > FiOS outside of Philly).
> >
> > Ben Krein
> > www.superk.org
> >
> > On Sat, 2007-02-24 at 01:37 -0700, Matt Jacob wrote:
> > > 6339 kbps down and 363 kbps up with Comcast. Who's your ISP, Bowie?
> > >
> > > On 2/23/07, Bowie J. Poag <bpoag at comcast.net> wrote:
> > > > Nice flash interface, statistics, the whole nine yards. Very slick.
> > > >
> > > > http://speedtest.net
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > (7247kb per sec down / 732kb per sec up... so far. Still tweaking my
> > > > gear for performance. Ha!)
> > > >
> > > >
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