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RWhite
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I thought the readers here might be interested in this short piece, and it's links. It comes from Pat Crispen's Tourbus newsletter, 5/8/03. http://www.tourbus.com/ - RWhite
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How Fast *IS* Your Internet Connection?
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Over the years, we've pulled our little bus of Internet happiness into three different Web sites that measure your current Internet connection speed:
Bandwidth Place's Speed Test
http://bandwidthplace.com/speedtest/
DSLReport's (now Broadbandreport's) Speed Tests
http://www.dslreports.com/stest
and CNET's Bandwidth Meter
http://webservices.cnet.com/Bandwidth/
All three sites are similar. Click on a button and your Web browser downloads a relatively large file (usually an image). When the download is complete, the site tells you your Internet connection speed at the moment the file was downloaded.
That's the good news. The bad news is that the three sites give you three WILDLY different speeds. So take the results of each site with a massive grain of salt.
As long as you're flinging around the sodium, I have another speed test site to add to your bookmarks list: Numion's YourSpeed at
http://numion.com/yourspeed/
What makes Numion so cool is that it combines a speed test with the crushing feeling that your computer is on the verge of exploding.
Let me explain. While those three other sites test your connection speed by downloading a single image file, Numion tests your connection speed by downloading images from *FORTY* popular Web sites around the world. All at once. The result is both cool and oddly frightening.
Just go to the Numion YourSpeed page and click on the small grey "Start!" button in the middle of the page. [Don't worry about changing any of the settings. You can play around with those later.] Numion will open the "page of doom," loading images from those 40 sites I mentioned earlier. While the page of doom is flashing with icons -- and while you fight the urge to check your computer for smoke -- keep your eyes on the black status bar at the top of the page. This shows you your speed test's progress.
After 30 seconds, Numion displays a page with three graphs. The first (the "speedbar") shows you your speed in kilobyes per second, the second shows you the results of your last 25 Numion speed tests, and the third compares your speed to the speed of other people around the world.
Cool, huh?
Not only does Numion scare the living heck out of you -- that 40 image page is downright intimidating -- I really get the feeling that Numion's results are a *LOT* more accurate than those other three sites.
But maybe that's just me.
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How Fast *IS* Your Internet Connection?
---------------------------------------
Over the years, we've pulled our little bus of Internet happiness into three different Web sites that measure your current Internet connection speed:
Bandwidth Place's Speed Test
http://bandwidthplace.com/speedtest/
DSLReport's (now Broadbandreport's) Speed Tests
http://www.dslreports.com/stest
and CNET's Bandwidth Meter
http://webservices.cnet.com/Bandwidth/
All three sites are similar. Click on a button and your Web browser downloads a relatively large file (usually an image). When the download is complete, the site tells you your Internet connection speed at the moment the file was downloaded.
That's the good news. The bad news is that the three sites give you three WILDLY different speeds. So take the results of each site with a massive grain of salt.
As long as you're flinging around the sodium, I have another speed test site to add to your bookmarks list: Numion's YourSpeed at
http://numion.com/yourspeed/
What makes Numion so cool is that it combines a speed test with the crushing feeling that your computer is on the verge of exploding.
Let me explain. While those three other sites test your connection speed by downloading a single image file, Numion tests your connection speed by downloading images from *FORTY* popular Web sites around the world. All at once. The result is both cool and oddly frightening.
Just go to the Numion YourSpeed page and click on the small grey "Start!" button in the middle of the page. [Don't worry about changing any of the settings. You can play around with those later.] Numion will open the "page of doom," loading images from those 40 sites I mentioned earlier. While the page of doom is flashing with icons -- and while you fight the urge to check your computer for smoke -- keep your eyes on the black status bar at the top of the page. This shows you your speed test's progress.
After 30 seconds, Numion displays a page with three graphs. The first (the "speedbar") shows you your speed in kilobyes per second, the second shows you the results of your last 25 Numion speed tests, and the third compares your speed to the speed of other people around the world.
Cool, huh?
Not only does Numion scare the living heck out of you -- that 40 image page is downright intimidating -- I really get the feeling that Numion's results are a *LOT* more accurate than those other three sites.
But maybe that's just me.
