[PLUG] Metrofi wins Rogue of the Week

[Larry Brigman]

On Jan 10, 2008 3:24 PM, John Jason Jordan <johnxj at comcast.net> wrote:
> On Thu, 10 Jan 2008 07:54:57 -0800
> "Paul Johnson" <baloo at ursine.ca> dijo:
>
> > But which has a good Mbps/$ ratio?  If you're getting fewer Mbps than
> > Comcast for the same or more money than Comcast, they suck
> > automatically.
>
> You know, I've been reading this thread for a while now. I have Comcast
> at home for basic TV and internet, but I don't know what speed I'm
> actually getting. If I'm downloading a torrent then Ktorrent tells me
> or, if I'm using Firefox, the download manager pops up and tells me.
> And in those cases I rarely see anything over 1000, although I have
> seen as high as 2300 for brief periods. I have no idea what speeds I'm
> getting on stuff like loading web pages, downloading e-mail, playing
> streaming radio, watching youtube, etc.
>
> It's kind of difficult to decide I should drop Comcast in favor of
> something else when I don't even know what I am currently getting. Is
> there a tool I can use that will monitor my internet connection, log
> the speeds over a period of time, and give me a summary like "average,"
> "high" "low," and so on?
>
You can test you connection speed with this site.
http://integra.net/speedtest/

It is possible that Comcast will know that this is a connection speed test
site and do something special but I doubt it.