[CGUYS] Slow Web Connection? Test Its Speed. - NYTimes.com

2010-01-21 Thread t.piwowar
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/21/technology/personaltech/21basics.html?8ciremc=cir Points out where to find different tests that test different kinds of things. Also notes that some ISPs will throttle you back after a few seconds of file transfer. That favors loading web pages over file

Re: [CGUYS] Slow Web Connection? Test Its Speed. - NYTimes.com

2010-01-21 Thread mike
I found out two days ago my ISP...Qwest...has an excessive use policy. I apparently hit it but they will not tell me what the bandwith was. They won't even hint. They claim on their website that anyone doing for example 340 gigs of hulu watching is 'excessive'. Yeah, I think so too...I also