All you really need is to find a speed test they don't have in the database,
and which runs for couple of hours up and down (possibly to multiple remote
sites as well). That should give fairly good indication about the speeds.
P
On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 1:46 AM, Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> wrote:
> In the past I've gotten 25MBps on such tests. So, even though I just got
> 16Mbps on that speedtest, I'm skeptical that Cox is pulling some
> hanky-panky.
>
>
> On 02/28/2011 09:34 AM, Jerry Wilborn wrote:
>
>> Out here in the 'burbs I regularly get 15-17Mbit:
>>
>> http://www.speedtest.net/result/1177846570.png
>> http://metairiedata.com/blogfiles/ubuntu_dl.png
>>
>> Jerry Wilborn
>> jerrywilborn@gmail.com
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 7:24 PM, Louis Ross<louis.ross@selu.edu> wrote:
>>
>> Here at the Harvard of the South I've personally gotten 8 to 9 MBs
>>> download speed (early in morning before most students were online)
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 5:53 AM, Ron Johnson<ron.l.johnson@cox.net
>>> >wrote:
>>>
>>> When downloading a 164MB file from a Debian mirror, I peaked at 2MBps.
>>>>
>>>> Either they've increased my base d/l speed, or PowerBurst did an
>>>> extraordinarily fine job on such an obscure file.
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> "The normal condition of mankind is tyranny and misery."
>>>> Milton Friedman
>>>>
>>>
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