Be wary about trying to calculate your connection speed when getting numbers from Windows.

You might be looking at where windows is reporting the speed of the interface between the motherboard and the network connector, which would be f**king fast - way faster than broadband. That used to happen on XP machines if you hovered over the network connection icon in the system tray.

Your best bet is to use pantses speedtest links, first making sure that you've switched off email progs, and any other browser pages on other sites - anything that might use your internet connection basically. That ought to give you a pretty accurate reading of your connection's actual upsteam and downsteam speeds,

Posted By: Arizona Bay on September 16th 2009 at 15:26:17

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Techy question (General Chat) - DJ Ginga, Sep 16, 14:24:37
- bits per second (General Chat) - BerlinCanary, Sep 16, 14:32:53
  - Errrrrr... (General Chat) - DJ Ginga, Sep 16, 15:22:35
    - Divide by 1024*1024 (that's what I meant by 1024 squared) (General Chat) - BerlinCanary, Sep 16, 16:20:58
    - Be wary about trying to calculate your connection speed when getting numbers from Windows. (General Chat) - Arizona Bay, Sep 16, 15:26:17
      - OK thanks both of you (n/m) (General Chat) - DJ Ginga, Sep 16, 15:36:12
  - Ah thanks (General Chat) - DJ Ginga, Sep 16, 15:16:27
- simplify the connection stats by (General Chat) - pants, Sep 16, 14:32:12
  - I want to be downloading Uniblue SpeedUpMyPC right? (n/m) (General Chat) - DJ Ginga, Sep 16, 15:31:48
    - You shouldn't need to download and install anything to do a speed test. (General Chat) - Arizona Bay, Sep 16, 15:42:20
    - nope, that's the advert banner. You need to wait for the flash screen to load up (General Chat) - pants, Sep 16, 15:38:14
      - Ah, did wondewr about the flash thing... (General Chat) - DJ Ginga, Sep 16, 15:54:38
- Ah no; I double-clicked the Dr Speedtouch icon next to it... (General Chat) - DJ Ginga, Sep 16, 14:30:45
  - kbps = kilobits per second, I think. (n/m) (General Chat) - Arizona Bay, Sep 16, 14:32:33
- "bits" per second - a bit is one eighth of a byte. (n/m) (General Chat) - Arizona Bay, Sep 16, 14:30:04
  - ty (n/m) (General Chat) - DJ Ginga, Sep 16, 15:17:03

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