How to check for "real speed"
MEmic...@lticomputers.comsee
I recently, like in the last 4 days, had my cable modem connected to
my computers here at my house.
Both comps run like banshees. At least compared to the slow 56K
connection I had before.
My quesiton:
Is there software available, or a site, that will "tell" me what my
cable connection speed is?
I'm on the @Home network, and DID NOT install any of their software.
I couldn't see any need for it.
TIA
Michael
Alvena Ferreira
> I recently, like in the last 4 days, had my cable modem connected to
> my computers here at my house.
> Both comps run like banshees. At least compared to the slow 56K
> connection I had before.
> My quesiton:
> Is there software available, or a site, that will "tell" me what my
> cable connection speed is?
> I'm on the @Home network, and DID NOT install any of their software.
> I couldn't see any need for it.
>
tips. This is probably my favorite site:
http://www.dslreports.com/tweaks
However, in order to get a really true idea of your download speed, the
easiest thing to do is to simply load a very long page, such as a binary
file or a very long messageboard.
alvena
marriage-based visa pages at:
http://www2.apex.net/users/thehydes
Boyd Williston
meter.
There is no reliable way of determining your cable connection speed, because
anything you do that might measure it risks being bottlenecked somewhere
along the line so that you are not getting the full speed that the hardware
between you and your provider can support.
However, you don't really care about that; you care about what you can get
in real world situations. The best way to monitor your upload and download
speed is with a program like NetStatLive (free from www.analogx.com ).
"Alvena Ferreira" <alve...@home.com> wrote in message
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Alvena Ferreira
> Downloading a very long page won't tell you anything without some kind of
> meter.
>
give me the download speed in k's per second after the page has been
loading for a while. For instance, when I load this page:
http://www.us-immigration.com/forums/InformationBoard/
alvena
marriage visa pages at:
http://www2.apex.net/users/thehydes
Rich Czuba
remember to clean-out your browser's cache between tests. I use @home also
and didnt load any of their software either.
rich czuba
<MEmic...@lticomputers.comSEE> wrote in message
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Stan
wanted to know is the speed of my connection. Following someone's
suggestion, I went to www.testmyspeed.com and tried a few of the
benchmarks there. The result was confusing - speed varied widely from test
to test, and even the same test produced diffrerent results whithin
several minutes. It didn't make much sense.
Then I looked in the J. Navas' cable/DSL guide and it confirmed my
suspicion that I was wasting time. I makes no sense to repeat what he
says, so take a look here before you read further if you have not already:
http://Cable-DSL.home.att.net/#ConnectionSpeed .
I'm using OOL, and they don't seem to have a public FTP server and there's
nothing downloadable from their web site (someone please correct me if I'm
wrong). Then I realized that I knew a good public FTP server that I could
try - Novell's support site. They are using high performance servers (one
word - NetWare) and have very fast connection to the Internet (I've been
using different companies' support sites, and Novell is among the
fastest). When you choose a file to download, you have a 5 different
servers to choose from, so chances are that one of them is "closer" to you
(in Internet terms :) . You can use traceroute to check. For me the first
one is by far the fastest.
So, here's the site I'm talking about:
http://support.novell.com/filefinder/1557/index.html . I suggest to start
with a 5 MB or so file, then if your connection is too fast to tell on the
file of this size, pick a larger file. Another suggestion is to test
during the non-business hours. Chances are, the server's utilization will
be 0 at that time. And let's be reasonable and not abuse their servers
(although I'm sure they can take more than we've got, like most other
major vendors' web sites, with a possible exception of the certain company
located in Redmond, WA :) .
You will see the speed af download in the download information box, keep
in mind that it's in KBytes/sec. Multiply the number by 10 to get the raw
speed of your line in Kbits/sec (see J. Navas' site for explanation why).
Again, keep in mind that this is is not a perfect test, but IMHO it
certainly beats those "speed test sites".
You are probably curious what my speed was... The highest number I"ve seen
so far was somewhere between 470 KB and 490 KB (the number fluctuates
during download). It is by far faster than I expected. So, I guess my line
speed is at least 5 Mb/sec (not bad, huh?).
Hope this helps,
Stan
Lars M. Hansen
Download Netstat Live from AnalogX.com. It will tell you your current
download speed and a bunch of other useful information.
lars
bad...@hansenonline.net
http://www.hansenonline.net
[to send me e-mails, please replace "badnews" with "lars"]
Ivan Santhumayor
Eg: I have Optimum online, and i do binary download of
a file from ftp.optonline.net and then the DOS ftp client displays the speed
such as 400KBytes/sec.
Using the download speed tester from zdnet can show conflicting results,
since it goes through the internet cloud and that means a lot of unreliable
network hops.
<MEmic...@lticomputers.comSEE> wrote in message
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Ivan Santhumayor
OOL has a ftp site you can test your download.
cd pub
binary
get test64
** This downloads a 64MB file, and will give an accurate download speed
count
"Stan" <kompwiz@-R-E-M-O-V-E-usa.net> wrote in message
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Grinch
Alvena,
How do you find the time to post in here as well!
Grinch
Stan
> Stan,
> OOL has a ftp site you can test your download.
>
> ftp ftp1.optonline.net
>
> cd pub
> binary
> get test64
>
> ** This downloads a 64MB file, and will give an accurate download speed
> count
Thanx! I'll give it a try.
-Stan
Alvena Ferreira
> news:3A509567...@home.com...
> | alvena
> | marriage-based visa pages at:
> | http://www2.apex.net/users/thehydes
>
> Alvena,
> How do you find the time to post in here as well!
A lot more reading than posting...hahahaha
alvena
John Navas
In <3a509287...@news.hrngtn1.de.home.com>,
MEmic...@lticomputers.comSEE wrote:
Speed test sites on the Internet (e.g., BCTEL MultiMedia Gateway at
<http://speedtest.mybc.com/>) do NOT provide reliable measurement of
local link speed. The reason is that no speed test from an arbitrary
remote server will tell you much about anything other than that
particular route at that particular time under that particular server
load, all things that can and do vary widely. (Worse, some speed test
sites are so badly implemented that the results are pretty much
meaningless.)
To accurately measure the speed of your local link, download a large
file from a local server under light load (e.g., Internet software from
your ISP in the wee hours) and time how long it takes.
If you are running Windows 98, you can continuously monitor the speed at
which data is being sent and received over a network adapter (commonly
used to connect a cable or DSL modem) by installing Network Monitor
Agent, which is located in the Windows 98 CD directory
\Tools\ResKit\NetAdmin\NetMon. Once installed, you will be able to add
Network Monitor Performance items to the display in System Monitor.
(Network Monitor Agent is also available for Windows 95 in the Windows
95 CD directory \Admin\NetTools\NetMon, and can also be downloaded from
Microsoft at
<http://www.microsoft.com/Windows95/downloads/contents/WUAdminTools/S_WUNetworkingTools/W95NetworkMonitor/Default.asp>,
but it apparently does not include speed monitoring capabilities.) For
more information see Q200910 "How to Install Network Monitor in Windows
95/98" at
<http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q200/9/10.ASP>.
If you are running Windows NT, you can continuously monitor the speed at
which data is being sent and received over a network adapter (commonly
used to connect a cable or DSL modem) with Performance Monitor. The
Object to use is Network Interface. (For information on Instances, see
Q154535 "Multiple Instances of Network Interface in Performance Monitor"
at <http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q154/5/35.asp>.)
--
Best regards,
John Navas <http://navasgrp.home.att.net/>
CABLE MODEM/DSL GUIDE: <http://Cable-DSL.home.att.net/>
Stan
> [snip]
> If you are running Windows NT, you can continuously monitor the speed at
> which data is being sent and received over a network adapter (commonly
> used to connect a cable or DSL modem) with Performance Monitor. The
> Object to use is Network Interface. [snip]
Oddly, I don't have the Network Interface object in performance monitor on my NT 4.0 workstation. Is it the feature of NT
server only? Any clues?
-Stan
John Navas
In <3A53EF63.31D6C465@-R-E-M-O-V-E-usa.net>, Stan
<kompwiz@-R-E-M-O-V-E-usa.net> wrote:
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