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Chris
03-11-01, 11:24 PM
http://www.bmts.com/~taunton/speed.gif
aDSL, way up here in Canada down to Texas, 3mb???
he he he
Go BMI Cheetah high speed rocks......just wish it was like that all the time

not bad for 1Meg service, $39 a month including the modem

[ 03-11-2001: Message edited by: Martiangod ]

glc1
03-11-01, 11:30 PM
If you have 1mbps service, your definitely not getting 750KBps. And 3mbps is closer to 300KBps. Clear your cache an run the test again. Try the tests at dslreports.com too.

Dakota
03-11-01, 11:38 PM
Hmmphh.. Yeah. That site: http://bandwidthplace.com/speedtest/index.html is about as reliable as the weatherman. :D

glc1
03-11-01, 11:46 PM
Originally posted by BlueJetta:
Hmmphh.. Yeah. That site: http://bandwidthplace.com/speedtest/index.html is about as reliable as the weatherman. :DLOL, no, I think a weatherman would be more reliable. :)

Chris
03-11-01, 11:46 PM
he he he, aint that the truth, but hey, they have pretty pictures...

Now reality

Sympatico test site
Test starting...
Average throughput 966 kilobits/sec
Total time 8680 milliseconds
Done
DSL Reports pretty close but i find sympatico more consistant, therefore a better benchmark for me

glc1
03-11-01, 11:47 PM
Originally posted by Martiangod:
DSL Reports pretty close but i find sympatico more consistantProbably b/c it's closer.

YARDofSTUF
03-12-01, 02:31 AM
DSL reposrts and all others are never acurate, always way off.

glc1
03-12-01, 02:34 AM
Originally posted by YARDofSTUF:
DSL reposrts It's accurate for me. Has been the majority of the time w/ all the connections I've had (3 DSL and AT&T@Home).

YARDofSTUF
03-12-01, 02:53 AM
it said i was at 6000+kbps once and i couldnt dl off happypuppy at more than 30KB, then just now it says i'm at 1200kbps and i just dled resident evil at 430KB

@home just brought my upload cap down to 128 grrrr that sucks :(

HalfLifer
03-12-01, 06:29 AM
The download part of DSLr is inaccurate for me.

Anywho, heres what I got.

Server Location :San Antonio, USA

Test Type :downstream

Data Size (each test) :100KBytes




7447.3 kilobaud
7272.7 kilobits / sec
909.1 kilobytes / sec