Opera, the browser, has a built in tool for real time monitoring of your speeds.
I have enjoyed success with an app called "NetPerSec" that gives real time up/down speeds. I especially like the free app NetStat Live from Analogx.com (same guy who created DSLReports.com aka Broadbandreports.com and Internettrafficreport.com). It includes many configuration options and gives traceroute and ping times for a designated website. It can provide data in bits or bytes and totals since last boot, for the current and past month and has a CPU utilization monitor. I prefer computer-based monitors over speedtest web sites since the results from the sites are only as good as the internet traffic at that instant. The computer based monitors give you average performance over time. YMMV > Subject: Reliable, free broadband speed test sites? > > > So 2 questions, really - a) any good, reliable, hopefully free, sites = > to test speeds? > b) any thoughts as to why loading might be getting significantly = > slower, even if I close other applications? > -- 'Cosmic giggle' - "a randomly roving zone of synchronicity and statistical anomaly. Should you be caught up in it, it will turn reality on its head. It is objective and subjective, simultaneously 'really there' and yet somehow is sustained by imagination and expectation ...." - Terence McKenna ************************************************************************ * ==> QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in <== * ==> the body of an email & send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <== * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ************************************************************************ * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header "X-No-Archive: yes" will not be archived ************************************************************************
