Rogers speed test sites

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 10:39:27PM -0500, 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".
> 
> If you don't have Java and/or don't use Rogers as your ISP, try
> http://www.speakeasy.net/speedtest
> and pick New York as your server.

I just do 'apt-get dist-upgrade' on my system and see how fast it goes.
If it goes at about 900KB/s then I am pretty sure the link is the
8MBit/s it is supposed to be.

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