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Title: Bandwidht test
Post by: Staga on October 27, 2000, 09:12:00 PM

Couple links...
 http://computingcentral.msn.com/topics/bandwidth/speedtest50.asp (http://computingcentral.msn.com/topics/bandwidth/speedtest50.asp)
 http://homepage.eircom.net/~leslie/testpage.htm (http://homepage.eircom.net/~leslie/testpage.htm)

Title: Bandwidht test
Post by: minus on October 28, 2000, 07:37:00 PM

from France to USA

download start time: 972779890130
download end time: 972779890960
download time: 0.83
download size in thousands of bytes: 50
estimated line speed (K bits per second): 491.6
estimated line speed (K bytes per second): 60.2

hmmm no idea in lokal Fr sites going above 1,5 mb

Title: Bandwidht test
Post by: minus on October 28, 2000, 07:49:00 PM

Dang now realy confused my adsl normaly have to suport upt to 2,5 mb   jsut 50 meters from main central

second test all proxys off

download start time: 972780356110
download end time: 972780356940
download time: 0.1
download size in thousands of bytes: 50
estimated line speed (K bits per second): 4080
estimated line speed (K bytes per second): 500

damn it beat a T 2 in big stile!

Title: Bandwidht test
Post by: Lephturn on October 29, 2000, 08:08:00 AM

Just a note about these speed tests.  These test download speeds, which are not really important to AH.  You don't want to optimize your connection totally for download speeds if you play AH on the same connection.  A slower connection with more stability is often more suitable for AH.

If you are tweaking your connection, by all means check these speed tests, but make sure you check AH as well.  If you make a change that makes AH a bit too unstable, you can always back it out again.

This is most important for those of you tweaking modem connections.  Many times a dial-up connection set to a lower speed such as 33.6 ( on a 56k modem) will result in a more stable connection for AH, even though your "download speed" will be slower.  The solution for dial-up users it to create a separate dial-up connection for playing AH, and optimize a second connection for web surfing and downloading.

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