chrizzy

Wow looks good to me We do get high scores on certain days and just after we ring them up to complain when it wont run at all. I am changing to cable but it will take 3 weeks to get connected. In the mean time we will have to grin and bare it I guess. Cheers

Just called the ISP xtra.co.nz They would not give a speed that they say they provide, as there is too much variation they say.  Their test shows

1MB Download Test

Test Completed

This page is designed to give you a good indication of the actual transfer speeds that you obtain when connecting directly to a server. This program works by sending a large section of data to the client program from the server and timing how long it takes to download.

Broadband Speed Test Meter

Zero

0kB

160kb

20kB

400kb

50kB

800kb

100kB

1.2Mb

150kB

1.6Mb

200kB

2.2Mb

280kB

Extreme!

350kB

Your line speed is approximately 1661.2 Kbps or 203.6 KB/sec

( Where kb = kilobits and kB = kiloBytes )

Important Note: Due to caching problems in Internet Explorer you might have to press and hold CTRL while clicking on reload. This should give you an accurate download speed.

Results

Below is the data used to calculate your download speed:

    * Download time: 5.197 seconds

    * Size of file: 1058 Kilobytes

    * Estimated line speed: 1661.2 (kilobits/second)

    * Estimated line speed: 203.6 (kilobytes/second)

Hi There are two One is laptop win 2000 Pentium 3

PC 768mg ram running xp

IP is xtra telecom in New Zealand

They have bad problems here it seems, one day all is fine the next you can make coffee while loading the browser. Looks like I might have to change the company I use.

I have broadband. My computer runs really slow.

:::.. testmy.net test results ..:::

Download Connection is:: 518 Kbps about 0.52 Mbps (tested with 579 kB)

Download Speed is:: 63 kB/s

Upload Connection is:: 31 Kbps about 0 Mbps (tested with 97 kB)

Upload Speed is:: 4 kB/s

Tested From:: https://testmy.net (Main)

Test Time:: 2007/08/18 - 6:21pm

D-Validation Link:: https://testmy.net/stats/id-YCWFA9SM4

U-Validation Link:: https://testmy.net/stats/id-T5YUP1KDA

User Agent:: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8.1.6) Gecko/20070725 Firefox/2.0.0.6 [!]