Bandwidth Test Results
Category: Internet...
Posted Saturday, April 23, 2005 at 10:26 AM [GMT-6]

If you want to feel good about your internet connection speed, run a bandwidth test on a Saturday morning.

I just ran four tests over the space of about ten minutes, with results ranging from a low of 1.9 megabits/second up to a blazing 3.1 Mbits/sec. According to Bandwidthplace.com, those results compare to an average for all Texas cable users of 1.92 Mbits/sec and 1.54 Mbits/sec for T1 connections.

It's also a vast improvement over the pitiful 870 Kbits/sec I complained about last year. I have no illusions that Cox's system has gotten any faster. I realize that unlike me, most people have real lives and have better things to do on Saturday mornings than sit in front of their computers.

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You'd think they had better things to do on a Saturday night as well, but I pulled a lowly 1.1 mbps around 10 pm.

On the upside, QT is now working properly within Firefox 1.0.3. (Conflict with usual MP3 player, as it turned out.)

Posted by: CGHill at April 24, 2005 09:55 AM

Well, as I said in my post, there have been times when I would have killed to get 1.1 mbps.

I'm glad to hear you got your QT issue resolved. i guess I'll have to create another contest to test it.

Can you play mp3s backwards? ;-)

Posted by: Eric at April 24, 2005 02:35 PM

I've recorded some backwards, if that's a clue.

Posted by: CGHill at April 24, 2005 08:22 PM

Well, that could just mean that you're really hard on your stylii!

Posted by: Eric at April 24, 2005 08:29 PM
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