where can i test my bandwidth

[thirdeye]

my cable company finally upgraded my service and i was wondering if there was any place that i could test my speed. i went to download.com and tried clocking some downloads but it was kinda erratic. i.e. one time i got 4880 and the next time 10 seconds later i got 599 and then 4300. so i'm not sure what i've actually got.
thanx

 

[Beau]

CNet bandwidth test

 

[SinNisTeR]

http://www.dslreports.com/stest

http://computingcentral.msn.com/internet/speedtest.asp

 

[bozo1]

.

 

[SinNisTeR]

lol, sandwich

 

[thirdeye]

thanx guys

 

[dejacky]

lol, sandwich

 

[BigFatCow]

bandwidthplace

 

[splice]

www.pcpitstop.com

 

[mooseAndSquirrel]

But how about this: I'm at work with 2-T1's connected to the internet, a 100 mb lan connection with a gigabit ethernet backbone. As expected, the speed tests say I'm on a screamer.

BUT - the loading and moving around on web pages is incredibly slow.

We run Novell BorderManager as a firewall/url filter/web cache. I suspect this is the culprit. Does anybody know of a suite of tests that can simulate the user's experience? I think the speed tests posted start large file transfers and judge based on that. But doing some basic HTTP Get pages doesn't really seem to get tested.

Any help greatly appreciated. I'm new here, responsible for the quality of the infrastructure (e.g. I can institute any change I see fit) and am annoyed an embarassed at the speed of web surfing. For example, going from the general forum to the video forum here might take 10-15 seconds!

Thanks.

 

[MasterHoss]

You're probably getting lost packets and or packet collisions. You might want to do some research to see if there have been any bandwidth limits placed on certain things.

 

[Chad]

It's not you who is slow, it's the servers your connecting to.

 

[mooseAndSquirrel]

<< It's not you who is slow, it's the servers your connecting to. >>



Sorry - I'm talking about 10 seconds to load Google's minimalist home page.

I have a cable modem account at home, and it flies in relation to the work setup, no matter what sites or times of day I choose to make that comparison. But the speed tests in this thread show the work connection from my desktop out to be slightly better than the cable modem connection. Yet web site transitions stink.

I also don't think it's dropped packets, else why would the speed tests and file transfers work so well? I'm really thinking that something is mis-configured in the web caching of BorderManager. The cache should make things even faster, but as I keep on saying, it's slow here.