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Posted: **Mon Apr 21, 2003 6:38 am**

Can someone tell me how to see what my internet connection speed is?
Thanks
Biggles

Posted: **Mon Apr 21, 2003 11:46 am**

depends on how you connect.
if its a dial up there should be a little computer symbol in the bottom corner, just hover over that and it will tell you

Posted: **Sat Apr 26, 2003 6:42 am**

But that lies most of the time.

Sometimes i get 52 k that is my highest by the way, why do they call 56 then? 52kbps. Sometimes i've gone to downloads.com and i get at least 25k on the afternoons by the speed measurement thing.

Posted: **Tue Apr 29, 2003 6:10 am**

heres a handy page to test your speed...

http://homepage.tinet.ie/~leslie/testpage.htm

it should provide you with a fairly accurate speed. enjoy .

Cheers !

Shep

Posted: **Wed Apr 30, 2003 6:11 am**

That's a very useful link, cheers.

Will

Posted: **Fri Jul 25, 2003 7:59 pm**

Phone data transfer above 52k is impossible. It is a modem will never connect at 56k! The velocity factor of a phone line is the culprit along with interference. So remember a 56k modem box is lying!

Posted: **Fri Jul 25, 2003 8:02 pm**

OH yeah and your connection speed is never constant it can vary by around 10,000k every millisecond!

Posted: **Thu Jul 31, 2003 5:40 am**

If you have a friend with a pc - give them your ip address and get them to ping you - this will tell you your speed.

P.S Make sure any firewalls are turned off for this.

PC.

Posted: **Sun Aug 24, 2003 2:32 am**

Phone data transfer above 52k is impossible. It is a modem will never connect at 56k! The velocity factor of a phone line is the culprit along with interference. So remember a 56k modem box is lying!

Whoever told you that was full of crap. It is very possible to connect at speeds higher than 52k, and in fact, the highest possible speed to use on a Dial In modem is 112k. There is a technology called 'compression' that will allow you to effectivly double your connection speed. However, compression is expensive for ISP's to use effectivly, so most use very little compression, if any at all.

I just got on cable yesterday, but before that, I had dialup that would connect at anywhere from 24.4k to 28.8k. Compression kept my connection above 14k, which is all that these phone lines support. =\

My cable, on the other hand, is capped at 256kbps, but I'm getting 30 kbps right now. =\

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