speed test site?

MZB

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Nov 7, 2009, 10:43:56 PM11/7/09

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I'd like to test the speed of my current setup. I googled speed test and
there are dozens of sites that will do this.

I would like to go to a legitimate site. Does anyone have any suggestions?

Mel

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Nov 7, 2009, 11:01:25 PM11/7/09

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On Sat, 7 Nov 2009 22:43:56 -0500, "MZB" <m...@noway.prudigy.net>
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Mel, try this....
http://www.dslreports.com/tools

Bob Levine

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Nov 8, 2009, 9:12:05 AM11/8/09

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"MZB" <m...@noway.prudigy.net> wrote in message
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Speedtest.net

Bob

davy

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Nov 8, 2009, 7:02:03 AM11/8/09

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Trouble is the more sites you try the more confused one gets... I have
had many variations and not one giving the same result.

A better bet would be to download test files of known sizes from 'Think
broadband' (http://www.thinkbroadband.com/download.html).... the only
caveat is you'll need a stop watch or be able count the minutes and
seconds.

Start the timing from when you see 'Start download' page... not on the
file selection page, these are test files only.

davy

lgree...@srt.com

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Nov 8, 2009, 10:31:42 AM11/8/09

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Like the old saying...A man who has one watch knows the time, a man
who has two watches is never sure. Larry

Bill Ghrist

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Nov 9, 2009, 9:19:28 PM11/9/09

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Actually, you don't necessarily need the stopwatch. All you need to do
is open Task Manager (this is for Windows XP; I assume that Vista/Win 7
have the same capability) and select the Networking tab. This will show
you graphically the download speed as a percentage of the computer's
network interface. If your modem is connected via 100 Mbps Ethernet,
then a 10% Network Utilization represents 10 Mbps. If you download a
large file from a site that can keep up with your max rate you should
see the graph flatten out out at the maximum rate. If the graph is not
flat on top, then you need to find a download site with greater
capacity. One advantage of this method is that as long as the graph is
generally flat on top you can ignore occasional dips--the flat part is
your max rate and the dips are just network congestion.

JMc

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Nov 9, 2009, 10:01:21 PM11/9/09

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I see that everyone else who responded assumed you meant to ask for network
speed test, and you may indeed be interested in that. On the other hand, as
this is a Dell group as opposed to any of the several networking groups, you
may want to test/evaluate the speed of your system and components such as
processor, memory, hard-drives, ... in which case you could try SiSoftware
Sandra with trial and Lite versions at: http://www.sisoftware.net/

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BillW50

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Nov 10, 2009, 9:14:11 AM11/10/09

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Being a US Robotics fan for decades, I use their iBand bandwidth
monitor. It works in the Taskbar or can be dragged off and auto hide and
all. Although for a number of years now, it has been made free to all.
It sure works better than the Task Manager. Those that finds this
interesting, just might want to check it out.

USR iBand
http://www.usr.com/support/s-software.asp

--
Bill
Asus EEE PC 702G4 ~ 2GB RAM ~ 16GB-SDHC
Xandros Linux (build 2007-10-19 13:03)