[GRLUG] NOT LINUX - broadband test

[Bob Kline]

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.
> --
> john-thomas
> ------
>

What are the nominal up/down rates of
you package?

I've seen just under 5Mbps up when
uploading to Comcast.  You can take
a file of known size and try this - there
isn't much room for error if you time it
yourself.

   -- Bob

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