[TopDog2]

	Connection Type		Connection Speed	Faster Providers
	28.8 Kbps		Dial-up 28.8k
	33.6 Kbps		Dial-up 33.6k
	53.3 Kbps		Dial-up 56k
	64 Kbps		ISDN 64k
	83.1 Kbps		83.1 kbps
	128 Kbps		ISDN 128k	New York Internet
	384 Kbps		DSL 384k	New York Internet
	768 Kbps		DSL 768k	DIRECTV DSL™
	1500 Kbps		DSL 1.5MB	EarthLink Inc.

As you can see, at 83.1 Kbps, I'm no where near where I should be using AT&T Broadband. It is frustrating, but on the upside, I'm not getting anything near the number of attampts on my firewall that I got with @Home.

[jlogajan]

My AT&T in Mpls/StPaul area is about 800k down -- pretty typical. I can get local server content at about 1.4M.

[cd jones]

just test my speed:

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test run: 19:38CST Dec 10, 2001
your IP*: 24.126.92.97
your ISP*: AT&T Broadband West

Your raw speed was 1767532.1 bits per second. There are 3 meaningful ways we can interpret this number:

Communications context

1.8
megabits per second This is how communication devices are rated. Kilo means 1,000 and mega means 1,000,000. Examples of this context include 56k modem, 384/128 DSL, and 10Mbit Ethernet

Storage context

215.8 kilobytes per second This is how data is measured on your hard drive and how FTP programs measure transfer speeds. Kilo is 1,024 and mega is 1,048,576.

1MB file download
4.7 seconds
The time it would take you to download a 1 megabyte file at this speed.