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Black4Truck · 11-04-2009, 07:40 PM

For those of you having downloading troubles or just want to see if your ISP is any good

480sparky · 11-04-2009, 07:47 PM

And of course, they will always find something 'wrong' with your computer, and try to sell you some software, right?

EDM · 11-04-2009, 07:53 PM

speedtest.net is a good site, but it only tells you a little bit about your speed.

Many ISPs will ramp down the speed after the download starts.

The true way to see your speed is to download a large file from a server that you know is faster than your connection.

Download this: http://download.microsoft.com/downlo...35-SP2-ENU.exe

Pay attention to the download speed. For example, my speed averaged 1.9MB/s. You multiply that number by 8 (8 bits in a byte) to get 15.2Mbps.

That number is a real world number that will show what your ISP is capable of.