[GRLUG] NOT LINUX - broadband test

[Michael Mol]

On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 9:55 AM, John-Thomas Richards <jtr at jrichards.org> wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 08:44:26AM -0400, Luan Pham wrote:
>>
>>
>> On Sat, 2010-06-26 at 20:57 -0400, John-Thomas Richards wrote:
>> > > http://www.broadband.gov/qualitytest/
>> > >
>> > > Test your downstream & upstream
>> > > speed,  latency, and jitty, at the FCC
>> > > test site.
>> > >
>> > >   -- Bob
>> >
>> > Hmm....17,353kbps download speed, 3,564kbps upload...
>>
>> That it fast my from AT&T U-verse:
>>
>> 5752 kbps download and 939 kbps upload.
>
> That is fast.  I guess my unspoken point is that I don't think I trust
> those numbers.  3,564kbps *upload*?  Bah.

Speedboost. Has one cap for the first N seconds (or first N bytes?),
then drops to a lower cap.  Unfortunately, these broadband tests don't
track that.

My 6Mb/s connection just gave me 19Mb/s down, 3Mb/s up.

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:wq

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