Connection+Test

**__Understanding Internet Connection Bandwidth/Speed__**
Have you ever wondered the **bits per second capacity** of your internet connection and what you are actually using???

Check out this site to find-out>[|www.ozspeedtest.com/]

My results at home running Telstra BigPond Cable were:

__Broadband Speed Test Results__ Test run on **09/03/2009** @ **12:06 PM** Mirror: **Telstra Bigpond** Data: **600 KB** Test Time: **1.36 secs** Your line speed is **3.59 Mbps** (3591 kbps). Your download speed is **449 KB/s** (0.44 MB/s).

Here are some interesting related **questions/answers**
A. Line speed refers to how many bits per second your Internet connection can download. This is usually how your ISP represents your connection speed when you sign up with them. For home Internet connections, the speed is measured in kbps (thousands of bits per second) or Mbps (millions of bits per second). An example is a 512/128 ADSL plan, which can download theoretically at 512 kbps and upload at 128 kbps. A. Your download speed is directly linked to your line speed. This is typically the speed you will see when you download a file in your web browser. It is measured in KB/s (Kilobytes per second) and MB/s (Megabytes per second), where one byte is equal to 8 bits. Therefore if you are on a 512/128 ADSL plan you can theoretically download at 64 KB/s and upload at 16 KB/s. A. The following table depicts the speed you should be able to obtain depending on which plan you have chosen. Your maximum speed may vary depending on your distance from a telephone exchange, your line quality, the number of users in your area, or connection protocol overheads. A. There are a several reasons why your results may be slower than expected:
 * Q. What is line speed?**
 * Q. What is download speed?**
 * Q. What speed should I get?**
 * ||~ Connection Type ||~ Typical kbps ||~ Typical KB/s ||
 * 28K Dialup || 28.8 kbps || 3.6 KB/s ||
 * 56K Dialup || 56.6 kbps || 7 KB/s ||
 * 256/64 ADSL || 200/56 - 256/64 kbps || 25/7 - 32/8 KB/s ||
 * 512/128 ADSL || 400/108 - 512/128 kbps || 50/13 - 64/16 KB/s ||
 * 1500/256 ADSL || 1200/216 - 1500/256 kbps || 150/27 - 188/32 KB/s ||
 * 8000/384 ADSL || 1500/326 - 8000/384 kbps || 188/40 - 1000/48 KB/s ||
 * 12/1 ADSL2 || 1500/700 - 12000/1000 kbps || 188/88 - 1500/125 KB/s ||
 * 24/1 ADSL2+ || 1500/700 - 24000/1000 kbps || 188/88 - 3000/125 KB/s ||
 * 24/2.5 ADSL2+ Annex M || 1500/700 - 24000/2500 kbps || 188/88 - 3000/312 KB/s ||
 * Uncapped*/128 Cable || 2880/108 - 10000/128 kbps || 360/13 - 1250/16 KB/s ||
 * Uncapped*/256 Cable || 2880/216 - 10000/256 kbps || 360/27 - 1250/32 KB/s ||  ||
 * Q. Why are my speeds slow?**
 * You are running other applications in the background that are utilising your bandwidth and hence slowing your maximum speed for this test. Programs such as P2P, IM, email clients, or any other program that may use the Internet should all be closed when running a test.
 * Your computer isn't fast enough. This becomes a problem especially with the larger test images, as some computers take more time to process the image and to display it to the screen than they do to actually download the file. Any PC faster than 600MHz seems to be fine (almost all PC's from the several years).
 * The mirror you are using is either slow or located in the wrong location for you. Try running the test from the OptusNet mirror. This always seems to provide accurate results no matter where you are located, or who your ISP is.