Bandwidth meter

[Eli]

I use DU Meter.

 

[RossMAN]

Originally posted by: nsafreak
RossMan here are a few things to keep in mind from a fellow ADSL user:

1) The 1.5Mbps downstreams that they are saying they provide STILL relies upon how far you are from your CO
2) They are NOT guaranteeing that you will get 1.5 Mbps downstream, it's more of an up to 1.5Mbps downtream
3) Your wireless connection is possibly introducing a bit of slowdown into the whole equation. If you have a really good link and 100% signal strength then perhaps not but the more it degrades the more you notice it since you have 11Mbps max on it, and it decreases dramatically with just a little signal loss. This is why my bandwidth intensive stuff stays on a wired switch and lightweight stuff goes on my wireless section of the network.
4) The route you go to any given server is going to affect your download rate, just like any other internet connection. If you have a bad route you won't get the full potential of your connection.

Frankly I would recommend using a download accelerator type program to help things out a bit. If at all possible I would see about wiring a few things up instead of having everything wireless. Until I see a wireless system that can provide 1000 Mbps connections I'm going to be using it most of the time as well.

Thanks and you're right it's up to 1.5

I'm happy with what I have so far, I don't really download a lot.

It's $15 cheaper than what I had before so that's good

 

[Ferocious]

off topic a bit....

but isn't 1 kilobyte defined as 1024 bits? or does it really mean 1000 bits?