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Upload, download, ping, etc
Posted: Tue Dec 26, 2006 1:29 pm
by Kwackerz
For those who're interested in how their net connection fares..
http://www.speedtest.net/
I want that for my desktop!!
Very cool flash design
oh and mine?
Posted: Wed Dec 27, 2006 1:45 pm
by Gio
I use Myspeed
http://myspeed.visualware.com/uk/index.html
Which gave my connection as
Speed test statistics
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Download speed: 5579888 bps
Upload speed: 489160 bps
Quality of service: 98 %
Download test type: socket
Upload test type: socket
Maximum download pause: 18 ms
Average download pause: 2 ms
Minimum round trip time to server: 90 ms
Average round trip time to server: 92 ms
Your site didn't like my computer, even tho its got Flash 9
Posted: Wed Dec 27, 2006 7:03 pm
by lazarus
Mine is 245k in both directions but Tiscali sell me 2Mb and the little windows icon says 2.3Mb. Yet when I downlaod a file, Firefox usually says sometyhing like 35kB.
So whats happening. Seems my broadband is simply dial up.
Posted: Wed Dec 27, 2006 9:35 pm
by Gio
lazarus wrote:Mine is 245k in both directions but Tiscali sell me 2Mb and the little windows icon says 2.3Mb. Yet when I downlaod a file, Firefox usually says sometyhing like 35kB.
So whats happening. Seems my broadband is simply dial up.
Its all down to how many are sharing in your area, which is a contention issue (I think)
Posted: Wed Dec 27, 2006 9:45 pm
by Kwackerz
I left Tiscali (business dial up account) due to their absolutely appalling contention ratio. They said it was... cant remember.. 7:1 (seven subscribers to one server's bandwidth) where in reality it was shown as 25:1 when I enquired with the tech support team. Tiscali doth suck and blow, all at the same time.
More info on contention ratios here:
http://www.idnet.net/broadband/contentionratio.jsp
Saying that, it sounds like you're limited by settings, not your ISP.
Have you tried running the full test at
www.pcpitstop.com ? Very good for highlighting issues with your hardware and software.
