[ILUG] OT - Measure broadband speed

[ollie at eillo.org]

Hello,
     Thanks for the responses. I found blacknight but they require registration
which im not doing. Tried speedtest.net which gave me 1300kb per second on a 2Mb line
the first try, 1100kb the second. 

The connection gets really bad in the evenings.

Also im aware of the difference between latency and bandwidth. However my ping
on the speedtest was over 100ms which sucks.

Ill run it again in the morning
when the connection is fastest to get a best possible result.
 
In relation to heanet and distros im newly converted from Arch Linux 
which is like an easier debian, to Mint Linux, based on Ubuntu.

I got sick of, and dont have the time to configure everything anymore.
It really smacked me in the face as its the distro ever that "just worked"
out of the box for me.

wifi, sound, suspend, hibernate etc - everything.

Cheers!,
       Ollie.





On Tue, 22 Jan 2008 20:15:42 +0100, Paolo Marchiori <paolo at marchiori.net> wrote:
> Robert Sweetnam wrote:
>> What ISP are you using?
>> Try downloading a Linux ISO from ftp.heanet.ie. Not sure if they would
>> take to kindly to being used as a test but if you are looking for a
>> particular distro then now would be a good time to grab it.
> Agree. Furthermore, keep in mind that providers usually guarantee
> /bandwidth/ - which is different from /latency/. Download /speed/ is
> influenced more by the first than the latter, but ping /response-time/
> is more latency- than bandwidth-related.
> (in A.S. Tanenbaum words, never underestimate the bandwith of a
> 13-wheeler fully loaded with tapes) (which of course contain your daily
> backup of the Internet). In a technologically underdeveloped country of
> choice, someone invented his own market niche: selling "low-latency" but
> "not-so-broad band" DSL connections to online gamers for funny amounts
> of money.
> 
> p.
>