Internet Connection Speed Survey

                      From John Ferris

Hi all,

I came across this web page that calculates the speed of your
internet connection by recording the time taken to download a
large amount of information contained in a second web page.

I thought that it would be interesting to do some form of survey
to give an idea of what speeds different people with different
ISPs are connecting with, just to see what happens.

If you wish to take part, simply go to the URL below. After the
first web page loads, a second will begin to load. This will take
less than 30 seconds and two numbers will appear in a box on the
right hand side of the page, a larger one for kbps and a smaller
one for kbytes per second.

If you could email me these numbers along with the ISP you connect
with and note if you use something fancy like cable modems or
ADSL/ISDN. I would be most interested in the results. If you want
to send more than one result then that's even better. No names of
participants will be revealed. I will publish the results on a web
page in the future.

http://msn.zdnet.com/partners/msn/bandwidth/speedtest.htm

Thanks.

John Ferris
john@frogs.force9.co.uk






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