Bandwidth meter

[RossMAN]

Does anyone know of an accurate bandwidth meter?

CNET says I'm at 540k but 2wire says 1.3M

I recently switched to Earthlink.net's 1.5 aDSL and am surfing the net from my laptop using 802.11b WiFi.

 

[Smolek]

Link

 

[AntaresVI]

i usually use http://phl.speakeasy.net - ties in with DSLreports, insert city of your choice.

 

[microAmp]

Can't promise that they all work.

 

[minendo]

DSLReports

 

[RossMAN]

Thanks guys I used the DSLReports.com bandwidth meter but it didn't work

 

[MaxDSP]

Text

 

[pray4mojo]

Do it the hard way. Try downloading from a fast server and multiply your speed by 8.

 

[RossMAN]

Originally posted by: pray4mojo
Do it the hard way. Try downloading from a fast server and multiply your speed by 8.

I think that's a great idea, now to find something big to download.

 

[microAmp]

Originally posted by: RossMAN

Originally posted by: pray4mojo
Do it the hard way. Try downloading from a fast server and multiply your speed by 8.

I think that's a great idea, now to find something big to download.

Something from Microsoft just so you know the servers won't be holding you back.

 

[RossMAN]

Well I tried download the Free rebate tracking program (5MB)

Speed was jumping all around the place but usually was around 100k x 8 = 800

 

[boyRacer]

Try this... it has a 10MB and 50MB file... both HTTP and FTP... hope it helps.

 

[aphex]

Originally posted by: RossMAN
Well I tried download the Free rebate tracking program (5MB)

Speed was jumping all around the place but usually was around 100k x 8 = 800

I was gettin roughly 400kps on my cable line.... 400k x 8 = 3200

 

[RossMAN]

Tried again downloading Windows Media 9 from Microsoft.

Again 100k

 

[RossMAN]

Originally posted by: aphex

Originally posted by: RossMAN
Well I tried download the Free rebate tracking program (5MB)

Speed was jumping all around the place but usually was around 100k x 8 = 800

I was gettin roughly 400kps on my cable line.... 400k x 8 = 3200

Bite me

 

[Aves]

Try downloading this,

http://a1540.g.akamai.net/7/1540/52/20030530/qtinstall.info.apple.com/bonnie/us/win/QuickTimeInstaller.zip

 

[aphex]

Originally posted by: aves2k
Try downloading this,

http://a1540.g.akamai.net/7/1540/52/20030530/qtinstall.info.apple.com/bonnie/us/win/QuickTimeInstaller.zip

338kps for me...

 

[Aves]

Originally posted by: aphex
338kps for me...

I get 1.1MB/s

 

[dman]

download Dr.TCP from DSLReports Tools section. Set MTU to 1500 or so and MaxReceiveWin to 186880.

Reboot.

Try tests again.

There are other tweaks but mtu and receive win make/made the most difference when I've fooled around.

You can also run the tweak test at DSLREports, but ,if the download test didn't work I doubt that will either,hence the suggested numbers.

 

[conjur]

Originally posted by: RossMAN
Thanks guys I used the DSLReports.com bandwidth meter but it didn't work

Running XP? Do you have a JVM installed?

 

[RossMAN]

Probably not, where do I get JVM?

 

[tRaptor]

Use Download Accelerator on the most fast setting and find a good site. I can pull down 800 kb/sec No prob

 

[boyRacer]

Originally posted by: RossMAN
Probably not, where do I get JVM?

http://www.java.com/en/index.jsp

 

[cmf21]

JVM

 

[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.