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| Thread ID: 26505 | 2002-10-29 04:54:00 | connection speed and old phones | andy (473) | Press F1 |
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| 94113 | 2002-10-30 11:08:00 | PC Pitstop (www.pcpitstop.com) has a upload rate test. http://www.testmyspeed.com has quite a lot of different sites for the download tests with a very good NZ based one. With the system monitor you can get the rate (up and down) and also DU Meter (http://www.dumeter.com) is very good. |
-=JM=- (16) | ||
| 94114 | 2002-10-31 20:53:00 | Hi,unless the site is based in NZ then I wouldn't trust the results too much.There is to many places that could give you a false reading between here and the server if it is based outside NZ. By the way,the 56000 reading won't be correct either.It is impossible to actually get 56K from a 56k modem,as this is only a theoretical top speed.You can get close,but not actually 56K. Peter |
Peter Coleman (597) | ||
| 94115 | 2002-11-01 00:05:00 | If a 56000 modem was running at full speed you would get 7.0k a sec and you never get speeds like that on the net. I think the fastest speed I have had on kazaa downloading compressed data is something like 5.12k which is 40960bps. | Fatcam (1700) | ||
| 94116 | 2002-11-01 00:25:00 | I've actually known for years that the top speed is a theoretical figure so of very little use at all. What I didn't know was how to check actual figures - whether there was a utility in Win 98, a downloadable 3rd party utility or a web based checker somewhere. My FTP program shows the transfer rate and downloading files often does as well. It just suddenly occured to me on reading this post that maybe Win98 or Win Proxy had a built-in utility that I should really get around to activating. I've had a quick look at the suggested links and may get around to it at some point. (Sites that offer to optimize my computer have to be read carefully before using one of their free services). |
Heather P (163) | ||
| 94117 | 2002-11-05 10:05:00 | I am inclined to agree. I have a 56K External modem and the best I get is 52K connect. The worst I get is 46.666K. Connected to Xtra all the time. Quite happy too I might add. The original connection speed might be right. But, ( depending on the phone lines and exchanges etc ) the speed is not correct all the time. Modems do the handshakes and the actual speed varies during a session as it were. |
Elephant (599) | ||
| 94118 | 2002-11-05 10:08:00 | Generally speaking you don't wan't any more than three or four connections. That includes the modem. :-) ] |
Elephant (599) | ||
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