[ILUG] OT - Measure broadband speed

[Cian Brennan]

On Tue, Jan 22, 2008 at 07:49:48PM +0000, ollie at eillo.org wrote:
> 
> 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.
> 
> 
Blacknight don't require registration, there's a link to skip registration :).
Also, remember, you'll never actually get the quoted speed from a BB
connection. While 1300Kbp/s is toward the lower end of the scale, it is still
within what most ISPs will regard as "acceptable"


> 
> 
> 
> 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.
> > 
> 
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