Just out of curiosity.. Seeing as the thread is talking about speed.. I have been using speedtest.net to check my ISP speed and yes its telus.. I supposedly have a 15 mbit connection.. Last year I was getting 12-14 when checking against several nearby servers... I began having modem probs (ie would not renew the lease) and after fighting with telus because they would not help because I was running a linux system even tho I offered to do what ever they required to run their tests. came down to either hookup a window computer without a firewall running or don't bother us... I chose the later.. And went back to my old modem that tops out at 9 mbits and all was fine except for the slower speed
Anyway seeing as I was paying for the "hi speed" and rent on a modem that did not work.. I finally decided to give tech support another try which resulted in a service tech coming to my home and after trying 4 or 5 "new" modems, countless phone conversations and an eventual rebuilding and change of my network path and 4 hrs of the tech's time, he finally got one of the so called new hi speed modems to actually pull an IP which proved to be unstable for the next few days.. Where am I at now.. Well I am running the newer Thompson modem but the funny thing is with all the time spent trying to get the new stuff to work.. The old dlink modem still runs as fast or faster and seems to be more reliable and is over 10 years old... the moral of the story.. Is why did I bother.. Super wonderful high speed connection is not so super wonderful.. On a good day may only get 6 mbits and really lucky to get over 2 on longer links... Not sure why I stay with telus except that I must just like pain ... Just on the off chance speedtest.net is giving me the wrong info.. Anyone have any suggestions of a better way to check my connection speed Gary PS Tested at 4PM Friday.. With server in Calgary ( Dnload 6.24Mb & .8Mb up.. Ping 25 ms) With a server in Ft Worth ( 2.45Mb Dn and .78 Mb up .. Ping 153 ms ) _____ From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of [email protected] Sent: January 28, 2011 3:38 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [clug-talk] Bad internet... in a box Tired of high quality networks? Want to see how the other half live? Experience the slow, lossy, jittery internet that everybody is talking about... with this low price add-on for your network: http://packetlife.net/blog/2011/jan/12/emulating-wans-wanem/ Simon. PS. To achieve the monetary loss too, place a swear jar next to your PC. PPS. Only kinda of kidding, this project is really cool. _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying _____ No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 10.0.1204 / Virus Database: 1435/3408 - Release Date: 01/28/11
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