Measuring internet speed

mercphotomercphoto Registered Users Posts: 4,550 Major grins
edited March 21, 2006 in Mind Your Own Business
I recently upgraded to Time Warner's Premium cable modem, which promising (mildly) faster upload speeds, which I'm primarily concerned about. However I'm here at work watching a gallery get uploaded from my home computer. 170 photos in 198 minutes, which is dang near equal to before. I was expecting a 33% increase in upload speed.

How can I test my connection at home to let me know if I'm still at 384k upload, or at the newly advertised 512k upload speed?

Thanks.
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  • Bob BellBob Bell Registered Users Posts: 598 Major grins
    edited March 20, 2006
    mercphoto wrote:
    I recently upgraded to Time Warner's Premium cable modem, which promising (mildly) faster upload speeds, which I'm primarily concerned about. However I'm here at work watching a gallery get uploaded from my home computer. 170 photos in 198 minutes, which is dang near equal to before. I was expecting a 33% increase in upload speed.

    How can I test my connection at home to let me know if I'm still at 384k upload, or at the newly advertised 512k upload speed?

    Thanks.

    www.DSLreports.com has a few tests. I have 720k download and 512k upload and DSLreports showed it being really close.
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  • AndyAndy Registered Users Posts: 50,016 Major grins
    edited March 20, 2006
    Bob Bell wrote:
    www.DSLreports.com has a few tests. I have 720k download and 512k upload and DSLreports showed it being really close.

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  • StormdancingStormdancing Registered Users Posts: 917 Major grins
    edited March 20, 2006
    http://reviews.cnet.com/7004-7254_7-0.html

    or

    http://www.dslreports.com/stest

    or

    http://myspeed.visualware.com/
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  • bhambham Registered Users Posts: 1,303 Major grins
    edited March 20, 2006
    Also

    http://www.wugnet.com/myspeed/speedtest.asp
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  • OnreyOnrey Registered Users Posts: 188 Major grins
    edited March 21, 2006
    Another option

    http://www.toast.net
    Gives you a graph of your speed VS the speed of others Like Comcast ect
    and the photos you get to d/l are awesome, I just love the jets :)
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