Rogers speed test sites

[James Knott]

Evan Leibovitch wrote:
> I didn't know if this has been mentioned here before, but in a recent
> support call I was told that Rogers maintains two websites that one can
> use to test their network speed.
>
> If you have Java (on my Ubuntu system I used the packages
> "sun-java6-bin" and "sun-java6-plugin"):
> http://speedcheck.rogers.com
> The nice thing about this site is that it measures speed to Rogers' own
> servers, and it shows how close your speed is to the service levels
> you're supposed to be getting. In the "Enter Session Name" field just
> enter "test" and the hit "click to start".
>
>   

I'm getting 9.75 Mb down and 990 K up.  Last time I checked, I was
getting "only" 8 Mb & 800 K.

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