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Old 08-09-2006, 02:59   #1
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New speedtest site

http://www.speedtest.net/

Looks good, especially the speedometers - have fun and post your results if you want.
Still no upgrade at the moment mines still:
d/load: 1000 kbps
u/load: 88kbps

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Old 08-09-2006, 09:33   #2
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Re: New speedtest site

from work:
D/Load: 689kbps
U/Load: 581kbps
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Old 08-09-2006, 09:39   #3
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Re: New speedtest site

Well yet another speed test thats a waste of time. The best way is to use a multi threaded download manager and a good source site from anywhere.
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Old 08-09-2006, 13:02   #4
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Re: New speedtest site

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Well yet another speed test thats a waste of time. The best way is to use a multi threaded download manager and a good source site from anywhere.
Hmmm, well if you want it as an accurate, down to the last bit-per-second, then they are all useless. But as a bit of fun, with quite cool graphics, works for me
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Re: New speedtest site

Server: London

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Old 09-09-2006, 01:17   #6
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Re: New speedtest site

Download: 3841kbps
Upload: 371kbps

About right considering I'm networked and behind two firewalls.
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9000 ish
480 ish

..........the fastest was from a Slovakian site, not London
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There seem to be some pretty high latency times, using the London server.
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Old 09-09-2006, 13:46   #12
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Re: New speedtest site



Latency doesn't seem all that bad from here....
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Re: New speedtest site

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Latency doesn't seem all that bad from here....
It would be, if you were stuck on my exchange.
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