Hello Clarence,
Tuesday, August 07, 2001, 1:23:22 AM, you wrote:
CV> Hi All;
CV> I've been using the download of this image to test my connection speed
CV> on DSL and it seems pretty poor to me:
CV> http://grin.hq.nasa.gov/IMAGES/MEDIUM/GPN-2000-000938.jpg
CV> It's 1,787,955 bytes and the best time I can get on DSL is 2:20 (140 Sec).
CV> That's with A1.66 and Bell high speed internet connection.
CV> With my dial-up connection running @ 31200 I get it in 10:06 (606 Sec)
CV> using A1.62.
CV> Does my DSL speed suck or is this normal ? They claim up to 1.5 Mb/sec.
CV> I think I'm getting 130Kb/sec. :((
CV> I've tried 4 different NICs - 3 were 100Mbps and the above time is
CV> the best I could do.
CV> I know code red is wasting bandwidth, but surely it would have affected
CV> the dial-up time proportionally - and it seems normal.
CV> - Clarence Verge
CV> - Back to using Arachne V1.62 ....
Seems like a slow server. I got half my usual throughput.
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