Check your bandwidth here
[url="http://www.liveping.com/meter.php"]http://www.liveping.com/meter.php[/url]
[url="http://bandwidthplace.com/speedtest/"]http://bandwidthplace.com/speedtest/[/url]

I just ran a test today, and it said, 739.10kbps.
"which means you can download at 92.39 KB/sec. from our servers."
Yesturday it was between 373.30-393.80-kbps average here. Can't say if its too accurate, I would check at least 2-3 sites or more to get a better idea of what the average speeds is.

The first test shows me at:

Quote:

2353.7 kbps

The second test shows me at:

Downstream 7004 Kbps (875.5 KB/sec) 7564 Kbps (inc. overheads)
Upstream 242 Kbps (30.3 KB/sec) 261 Kbps (inc. overheads)

[url]http://www.adslguide.org.uk/tools/speedtest.asp[/url]

The first one shows me at 3.24 Mbps and the second one is 2.7 Mbps.

Thats pretty dang fast actually.

I got a question, could someone please exlpain the different between bits and bytes. I know that "B" is for bytes and "b" is for bits

1 Byte contains 8 bits

A Kilobit is one thousand bits. It is used to measure the amount of data transferred per second. Kilobits per second is shortened to kb/s, Kbps or kbps (as opposed to KBps, which is Kilobytes per second. Note the capitalization). The lowercase b is commonly used to denote bits, while the uppercase B is used for bytes.

1 kb/s = 1000 bits per second
1 KB/s = 1024 bytes per second

First:
Your current bandwidth reading is:

3.05 Mbps

which means you can download at 390.1 KB/sec. from our servers.

Second:
3.6 megabits per second

Communications 3.6 megabits per second
Storage 441.6 kilobytes per second
1MB file download 2.3 seconds
Subjective rating Awesome

2.1 megabits per second
Communications 2.1 megabits per second
Storage 254.6 kilobytes per second
1MB file download 4 seconds
Subjective rating Great


The thing is, I'm running 4 computers on this network ( My family ) which are all connected and using the internet at the moment. That effects this test right?

another good site you can check your bandwidth is [url]http://www.dslreports.com/[/url] its the site i use and there alot of other tools you can use and will also show your average for where you live

Unless they're all downloading a bunch of stuff it really shouldn't... thing that will affect it the most is the time you run the test and your neighborhood.