YES! I finally got my DSL working! Question tho.. how can i go about testing my upstream and downstream limits? Is there a web site that will gauge this? Thx in advance..
DSL finally! YES! How to test the line speed tho??
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run an FTP server for us and let us test it for you 
actually if you want download something from microsoft (something huge like SP2 for W2K) and you will get a gauge of your download speed.
actually if you want download something from microsoft (something huge like SP2 for W2K) and you will get a gauge of your download speed.
Wow - this speed is SOO much better.. when I check the connection details in "My Connection", it says my DSL Line speed is: 1572616 bps. Tho I think my uplink is much slower.. I am running the test now to see how it goes..
Yes it does. Try it out. Download a file with out DA then enable DA and try it again...Chances are DA will run faster in most cases.
EDIT: At least it does for me.
EDIT: At least it does for me.
SCREW DSL Reports! They're the fricking worst way of measuring your download speeds possible.
If you must use a simple little applet to test your speeds, use Speakeasy. They're usually very well connected to a backbone and reasonably accurate. They've also got PoP's all over the country, so you can get one close (DSLReports has what, 2 places to test from?).
You can go to this page to find the site closest to you.
Note that I don't use Speakeasy DSL, but a co-worker does, and that's how I know about it. And every time I've used it, it's been more accurate than DSL Reports or 2Wire.
The MOST accurate however would be to use your OWN ISP's ftp server to do a transfer of a large file. Assuming your ISP has one (most do), combine several files into something like a 5 to 10 meg file (Winzip can do this for you, doesn't matter if it's compressed or not). Then upload the file either into your own directory on the ftp server if you've got a login (depends on the ISP) or into their temporary/incoming directory (usually /pub/incoming). You can't get a directory listing of the incoming directory usually. This will tell you your upload speed AT THAT MOMENT. Then just download your file back to yourself (if using a graphical FTP client, this may not be easy since you can't get a directory listing sometimes). This will tell you your download speeds.
The reason to use your ISP's server is that you can find out more accurately what your OWN DSL line can handle, without needing to be concerned about bottlenecks outside your ISP's network. Your ISP's servers are usually only a few hops away, and you can generally depend on the links between their own servers being much faster than your own connection.
If you ever complain to your ISP about slow downloads, and tell them that you used DSL Reports to measure it, they'll likely laugh at you (I do, though not directly to my customers). No ISP can guarantee that you'll get the full speed of your connection when downloading from somewhere outside their own network. The connection speed is the MAXimum that you can expect to get IF you're connecting to something that is able to serve you at that speed AND if nothing in between bottlenecks it.
I'd also recommend getting NetStat Live from AnalogX (www.analogx.com). It sits in your system tray measuring throughput on your network connection as well as several other things (configurable), and you can glance at it anytime to get an idea of what your real speeds are, which is useful when you've got several things all downloading at once.
Download Accelerator I've never used, but I use FlashGet which I believe works similarly. It opens multiple download sessions of a single file from that server (and can search for mirrors sometimes), and starts downloading multiple parts of the file at the same time. So if you have a slow server, say, it can only send 2KBps per connection, you can have 5 connections open and get 10KBps and get the file in 1/5th the time.
If you must use a simple little applet to test your speeds, use Speakeasy. They're usually very well connected to a backbone and reasonably accurate. They've also got PoP's all over the country, so you can get one close (DSLReports has what, 2 places to test from?).
You can go to this page to find the site closest to you.
Note that I don't use Speakeasy DSL, but a co-worker does, and that's how I know about it. And every time I've used it, it's been more accurate than DSL Reports or 2Wire.
The MOST accurate however would be to use your OWN ISP's ftp server to do a transfer of a large file. Assuming your ISP has one (most do), combine several files into something like a 5 to 10 meg file (Winzip can do this for you, doesn't matter if it's compressed or not). Then upload the file either into your own directory on the ftp server if you've got a login (depends on the ISP) or into their temporary/incoming directory (usually /pub/incoming). You can't get a directory listing of the incoming directory usually. This will tell you your upload speed AT THAT MOMENT. Then just download your file back to yourself (if using a graphical FTP client, this may not be easy since you can't get a directory listing sometimes). This will tell you your download speeds.
The reason to use your ISP's server is that you can find out more accurately what your OWN DSL line can handle, without needing to be concerned about bottlenecks outside your ISP's network. Your ISP's servers are usually only a few hops away, and you can generally depend on the links between their own servers being much faster than your own connection.
If you ever complain to your ISP about slow downloads, and tell them that you used DSL Reports to measure it, they'll likely laugh at you (I do, though not directly to my customers). No ISP can guarantee that you'll get the full speed of your connection when downloading from somewhere outside their own network. The connection speed is the MAXimum that you can expect to get IF you're connecting to something that is able to serve you at that speed AND if nothing in between bottlenecks it.
I'd also recommend getting NetStat Live from AnalogX (www.analogx.com). It sits in your system tray measuring throughput on your network connection as well as several other things (configurable), and you can glance at it anytime to get an idea of what your real speeds are, which is useful when you've got several things all downloading at once.
Download Accelerator I've never used, but I use FlashGet which I believe works similarly. It opens multiple download sessions of a single file from that server (and can search for mirrors sometimes), and starts downloading multiple parts of the file at the same time. So if you have a slow server, say, it can only send 2KBps per connection, you can have 5 connections open and get 10KBps and get the file in 1/5th the time.
Wow, Lord Evermore thanks! That site is a great test. And to compare it at DSLreports is very cool too.
Argh sucks that I get 117k/sec down and 23k/sec up when all the other people using the same service on DSLreports get up to 2x+ as much as that. :|
Argh sucks that I get 117k/sec down and 23k/sec up when all the other people using the same service on DSLreports get up to 2x+ as much as that. :|
K got 3948 down but only 76 up at speakeasy san fran. That's much faster than I usually read down, but I;ve seen 400 up at other sites. Wonder why so slow up?
This is what I get w/ SF:
Test running..........
** Speed 1273(down)/107(up) kbps **
(At least 25 times faster than a 56k modem)
Finish.
Thx everyone for the tips and stuff BTW! =)
Test running..........
** Speed 1273(down)/107(up) kbps **
(At least 25 times faster than a 56k modem)
Finish.
Thx everyone for the tips and stuff BTW! =)
click on a porn site and see if you can kill all the pop ups.
If you cant then its a fast connection, if you can its sorta slow
If you cant then its a fast connection, if you can its sorta slow
<< click on a porn site and see if you can kill all the pop ups.
If you cant then its a fast connection, if you can its sorta slow >>
ROFLMAO!
I was actually thinking about the same thing, but then for warez sites
I listed mine in kilobytes. When I do 40k/sec I always mean kilobytes. Kilobits are dumb, just for ISPs to make ya think you're gonna get 1+ meg a second.
My speed is rated for 183k/sec (1.5mbps) down and I don't think they advertise the upload but it's around 30k/sec. So I usually get close to the max but that's a crappy max for cable IMO.
My speed is rated for 183k/sec (1.5mbps) down and I don't think they advertise the upload but it's around 30k/sec. So I usually get close to the max but that's a crappy max for cable IMO.
<< that's actually almost exactly the same score i get
1244/108 on pacbell
i want cable
>>Just be happy with what you've got
dialup sucks
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