BTOpenworld is a JOKE

[getitmade.com]

Not me..no way..not once.

Your line speed:

52.3 Kbps

6.4 K bytes/sec

This sucks.

If you read this and haven't done so already DO NOT purchase the
BTOpenworld Home option.

Truly dismal.

"Michael Price" <map...@email.msn.com> wrote in message
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> Visit this URL
>
> http://computingcentral.msn.com/topics/bandwidth/speedtest.asp
>
> To get a bandwidth speed test.
>
> My results show:
>
> 438.7 Kbps
> 53.8 K bytes/sec
>
> Mike....
>
> > I would be interested to know if there is some way to test the throuput
of
> > the connection, so we can see what quality of line we have?
>
>
>

[Robert Naylor]

I have a JANET LAN connection and it has shown results like this. If you
time any connection right with these speed tests you can get very poor
results. The best method to test this is to do a trace rout and see where
the delay is

==========================================================
=== VisualRoute (tm) 4.2a report on 27-Nov-00 16:37:17 ===
==========================================================

Report for computingcentral.msn.com [207.46.209.252]

Analysis: Connections to HTTP port 80 on host 'computingcentral.msn.com' are
working, but ICMP packets are being blocked past network "Microsoft" at hop
13. It is
a HTTP server (running Microsoft-IIS/4.0).

------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Hop | Node Name | Location | ms |
------------------------------------------------------------------------
| 0 | pc15.deh.man.ac.uk | * | |
| 1 | gw-owens2.mcc.ac.uk | ?Manchester, UK | 1 |
| 2 | gw-man.netnw.net.uk | ?Manchester, UK | 1 |
| 3 | gw-metro.netnw.net.uk | ?Manchester, UK | 2 |
| 4 | nw-gw.ja.net | - | 9 |
| 5 | ext-gw3.ja.net | - | 12 |
| 6 | us-gw.ja.net | - | 21 |
| 7 | ny-pop.ja.net | - | 89 |
| 8 | if-8-2.core1.NewYork.Teleglobe.net | New York, NY, USA | 78 |
| 9 | if-5-0.core2.NewYork.Teleglobe.net | New York, NY, USA | 79 |
| 10 | Teleglobe.net | - | 149 |
| 11 | if-11-0-0.bb1.Seattle.Teleglobe.net | Seattle, WA, USA | 301 |
| 12 | ix-2-0-0.bb1.Seattle.Teleglobe.net | Seattle, WA, USA | 163 |
| 13 | iuscmdistc7503-h6-00.cp.msft.net | ?Redmond, WA 98103 | 157 |
| ... | | | |
| ? | computingcentral.msn.com | ?Redmond, WA 98103 | |
------------------------------------------------------------------------

As you can see a lot of this speed problem comes from the not your
connection but someone elses.

--
Robert Naylor
aka Pobice the Goblin
http://www.pobtg.co.uk/

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