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On Thursday 02 November 2006 21:16, Ronald Wiplinger wrote:
How can I test the bandwidth of my ADSL line? /snip/ My ISP always suggests using the Stanford test, at least here in the US.
You get some nice detailed numbers which you can provide to your ISP. Also remember that your phone company can check your speed as well. I had mine come out and they told my I'm capped at 5Mb/s due to my location to the call switch.
Here are my results:
TCP/Web100 Network Diagnostic Tool v5.3.3e click START to begin Another client is currently being served, your test will begin within 45 seconds Checking for Middleboxes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Done running 10s outbound test (client to server) . . . . . 696.51Kb/s running 10s inbound test (server to client) . . . . . . 2.38Mb/s Your Workstation is connected to a Cable/DSL modem
The nice thing is that it ignores the fact that I'm running right now on my laptop over WiFi on my internal LAN. It checks for "middleboxes" and runs
At 09:20 AM 11/3/2006 -0800, Kai Ponte wrote: the
speed checks calibrated for those.
It even gives massively detailed stats...
Checking for mismatch on uplink (speed > 50 [-1.99>50], (xmitspeed < 5) [0.69<5] (rwintime > .9) [0.30>.9], (loss < .01) [0.00<.01]
...and provides several links to other netspeed testers.
-- kai ponte www.perfectreign.com
Kai seems to get more output than I get. I only get: Checking for Middleboxes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Done running 10s outbound test (client to server) . . . . . 1.06Mb/s running 10s inbound test (server to client) . . . . . . 5.13Mb/s The slowest link in the end-to-end path is a 10 Mbps Ethernet subnet Alarm: Duplex mismatch condition exists: Host set to Full and Switch set to Half duplex What switch are they talking about? Is that my router? (Linksys BEFSR41) Is it the ethernet interface gadget supplied by my ISP? (Motorola SBS100) --doug