Bandwidth benchmarks??

[Speed_Freak]

does anybody know where I can go to get a somewhat RELIABLE bandwidth/connection speed benchmark? i've seen a few online ones and i've heard that they are pretty inaccurate. is there any software i can buy/DL to test my speed?? thanx.

[Kendan]

dslreports.com
goto dslr tools on the right. they have a lot of info.

[Speed_Freak]

thanx

[nikhsub1]

http://bamazed.bconnected.net/

[jbell]

I tried to create a screen shot but the text dropped out...

here is the info I got for the 1meg test

Starting download test
Http connection opened in 0 milliseconds
Test performed in 5550 milliseconds
Total bytes downloaded: 1048576 bytes
Throughput: 1.4414414 Mbps

this is from the http://bamazed.bconnected.net/ website

Again with the 2meg file test


Starting download test
Http connection opened in 0 milliseconds
Test performed in 4450 milliseconds
Total bytes downloaded: 2097152 bytes
Throughput: 3.5955057 Mbps


I ran another test with the 10meg file...

Starting download test
Http connection opened in 0 milliseconds
Test performed in 21800 milliseconds
Total bytes downloaded: 10485760 bytes
Throughput: 3.6697247 Mbps