| Ever wonder what your bandwidth is? Try Speed-Test.net or Bandwidth Place. I'm on cable in a city of 113,000 near some much larger cities and this is the results I got:
Bandwith Place:
Test 1(during turned off accepting cookies and it wanted to set some... not sure if that affected results. So had it auto accept for a second and 3rd test which both actually came out with higher results.):
Results: Your raw speed was 869196.77 bits per second.
There are 3 meaningful ways we can interpret this number:
Communications: 869.2 kilobits per second
How communication devices are rated. Kilo means 1,000 and mega means 1,000,000. Examples include 56k modem and 10Mbit Ethernet
Storage: 106.1 kilobytes per second
The way data is measured on your hard drive and how FTP programs measure transfer speeds. Kilo is 1,024 and mega is 1,048,576.
1MB file download: 9.7 seconds
The time it would take you to download a 1 megabyte file at this speed.
Cable Internet speeds in Canada: (it gives a graph showing my connect is second fastest but not too far behind the fastest) compared to all connection types worldwide yours is fantastic
test type: Downstream Test v3 (605 KB idt type)
test was run: 13:18CDT Jun 9, 2002
I.P. Address: <omitted>
your ISP: Shaw Fiberlink (aka Shaw@home)
Server: The tests are run from a dedicated server in San Antonio, Texas, USA.
Test 2:
Results: Your raw speed was 958267.59 bits per second.
There are 3 meaningful ways we can interpret this number:
Communications: 958.3 kilobits per second
How communication devices are rated. Kilo means 1,000 and mega means 1,000,000. Examples include 56k modem and 10Mbit Ethernet
Storage: 117 kilobytes per second
The way data is measured on your hard drive and how FTP programs measure transfer speeds. Kilo is 1,024 and mega is 1,048,576.
1MB file download: 8.8 seconds
The time it would take you to download a 1 megabyte file at this speed.
Cable Internet speeds in Canada: (it gives a graph showing my connect is second fastest but not too far behind the fastest) compared to all connection types worldwide yours is fantastic
test type: Downstream Test v3 (605 KB idt type)
test was run: 13:29CDT Jun 9, 2002
I.P. Address: <omitted>
your ISP: Shaw Fiberlink (aka Shaw@home)
Speed-Test.net:
Version 1.2
Test Number: 1
Test Type: Download 25 Kilobytes
Your IP address: <omitted>
Data used today: 307200 bytes
Maximum usage: 2048000 bytes
Data remaining: 1740800 bytes
Bytes Downloaded: 25600 bytes
Download time: 152 milliseconds.
Throughput: 1.284 Mbps
Test Number: 2
Test Type: Download 50 Kilobytes
Your IP address: <omitted>
Data used today: 332800 bytes
Maximum usage: 2048000 bytes
Data remaining: 1715200 bytes
Bytes Downloaded: 51200 bytes
Download time: 221 milliseconds.
Throughput: 1.767 Mbps
Test Number: 3
Test Type: Download 200 Kilobytes
Your IP address: <omitted>
Data used today: 384000 bytes
Maximum usage: 2048000 bytes
Data remaining: 1664000 bytes
Bytes Downloaded: 204800 bytes
Download time: 566 milliseconds.
Throughput: 2.760 Mbps
Test Number: 4
Test Type: Upload 25 Kilobytes
Your IP address: <omitted>
Data used today: 588800 bytes
Maximum usage: 2048000 bytes
Data remaining: 1459200 bytes
Bytes Uploaded: 25600 bytes
Upload time: 684 milliseconds.
Throughput: 0.285 Mbps
Test Number: 5
Test Type: Upload 50 Kilobytes
Your IP address: <omitted>
Data used today: 614400 bytes
Maximum usage: 2048000 bytes
Data remaining: 1433600 bytes
Bytes Uploaded: 51200 bytes
Upload time: 1054 milliseconds.
Throughput: 0.370 Mbps
Test Number: 6
Test Type: Upload 200 Kilobytes
Your IP address: <omitted>
Data used today: 665600 bytes
Maximum usage: 2048000 bytes
Data remaining: 1382400 bytes
Bytes Uploaded: 204800 bytes
Upload time: 2210 milliseconds.
Throughput: 0.707 Mbps | 
