[nzlug] Broadband bandwidth drop: WTF?

[Andrew Errington]

On Tue, January 22, 2008 15:03, Cliff Pratt wrote:
> Vik Olliver wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 2008-01-22 at 09:29 +1300, Bob Harvey wrote:
>>
>>> There's an unambiguous tester at:
>>> http://www.consumerspeedtest.org.nz/speedtest.php
>>> and it is in kilobits-per-second.
>>>
>>> As far as I am aware all Telecom DSLAMS are limited
>>> to an upload speed of 128kbps unless specially configured.
>>
>> Last Result:
>> Download Speed: 524 kbps (65.5 KB/sec transfer rate)
>> Upload Speed: 435 kbps (54.4 KB/sec transfer rate)
>>
>>
> I've been to the site, but how do you get it to test your connection?

You press the ambiguously labelled button in the centre of the screen
marked "Begin Test Now".  Tricky to spot, I'll grant you.

...or maybe you don't have Flash[1] installed?

A

[1] A-aah!