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Ophelia
Where can I find out what my connection speeds are, please?
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Ophelia Phanjephlapps
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Ophelia
Many thanks
Ophelia Phanjephlapps said:
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Jolly polly
All good suggestionsAlias said:
You can keep your eye on things with a gadget called Network Monitor II
http://tinyurl.com/33opwnj
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Ophelia
Thank you.Alias said:
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Ophelia
Thank you tooJolly polly said:
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Ken Blake
It will give you download and upload speeds, not connection speed, but
www.speedtest.net works well and is easy to use.
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Ophelia
Thank you!Ken Blake said:
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Dave \Crash\ Dummy
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Ophelia
Thanks, Dave!Dave "Crash" Dummy said:
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bod
This one is reliable, I've used it for a few years, Ophelia.
http://www.speedtest.net/index.php?nojs=1
Bod
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Ophelia
Thank you, bod.bod said:
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bod
HTH.
Bod
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Agent_C
http://www.netlimiter.com/download.php
The free version is Netlimiter (2) [not 3]
It will provide very precise bandwidth measurements; much more than
any speed measuring web site.
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Ophelia
Thank you tooAgent_C said:
Well I certainly have plenty to try)
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Jeff Layman
Hi Dave. I didn't know that was on LoL. I still can't find it with a
search (nothing unusual there...), so what heading is it under?
FWIW I use BitMeter II on my HPx64 setup. Works well.
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Dave \Crash\ Dummy
It's not advertised or listed. I put it up for my own use, as much toJeff said:
test the website speed as my own home connection.
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johnbee
Just for information, I have tried quite a few speed test web sites. So IOphelia said:Thank you tooAgent_C said:
know that an alternative way to test the connection speed is to actually
download something. When one does that, the progress window that opens
shows the actual transfer rate which you are getting. You might then see
that it is invariably much slower than what the web sites tell you is your
speed. If you don't do much downloading, there are plenty of places where
you can, for example, get game downloads for free trial periods - they
usually tell you how big the file is - choose a big one for a decent test.
You don't have to run the thing (download it to your desktop so you can
delete it immediately without a fruitless search for hours among the
mysterious subfolders). Apologies to all those who claim that things are
easy to find in Windows 7 <g>.
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Ken Blake
And if you download something else from a different web site, you
might find that the second download speed is very different from the
first. That's because the speed you get depends on where you are in
relation to where you're downloading from, and how many hops your
connection takes.
Moreover the same is true on the speed test web sites. I usually use
speedtest.net, but my results vary (sometimes by a lot) depending on
where the server I choose to test with is located.
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Ophelia
Many thanks, johnbeejohnbee said:Just for information, I have tried quite a few speed test web sites. SoOphelia said:Thank you tooAgent_C said:
I know that an alternative way to test the connection speed is to actually
download something. When one does that, the progress window that opens
shows the actual transfer rate which you are getting. You might then see
that it is invariably much slower than what the web sites tell you is your
speed. If you don't do much downloading, there are plenty of places where
you can, for example, get game downloads for free trial periods - they
usually tell you how big the file is - choose a big one for a decent test.
You don't have to run the thing (download it to your desktop so you can
delete it immediately without a fruitless search for hours among the
mysterious subfolders). Apologies to all those who claim that things are
easy to find in Windows 7 <g>.
Your comments have been taken on board!!!