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Re: Testing Internet Speeds and Capacity

  • From: Jeff Shultz
  • Date: Fri Nov 20 11:18:59 2009 
shake righa wrote:

Hi,

how does one truly test internet speeds provided by your provider.

Speed test sits give different results that one provided by the provider.

Regards,
Shake
Nice ISP's will put speed test software on their backbone so you can test the speed of your circuit to the backbone.

Remember that the speed your provider quotes you is probably the full throughput of the circuit. Some circuits, such as DSL ones, will read up to 15% slower due to ATM circuit overhead.

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Jeff Shultz




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