Monitor Net Traffic

[Carl Friis-Hansen]

John Hubbard wrote:
> Here is my problem;  I want to know what kind of bandwidth my isp is 
> really giving me.  I have looked at a few different speed tests and I 
> get different results from them, and they often seem far faster than 
> what I actually get.  Now I realize that the bottle neck might be coming 
> from whoever is serving the content, but I am not sure. 
> So the question is; is there any way to generate any kind of report of 
> my bandwidth?  I only care about how fast I am able to get data when I 
> am trying to download it.  Often the connection is not being used at all 
> and I don't want to factor that in. 
> Any thoughts? 

I have found that "http://speedtest.net/" can be useful in that it lets 
you pick a server to test against based on it's speed and distance from 
you. Sadly they demand that your browser can work with swf.

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