[kwlug disc.] Rogers ISP - cost competitive?

[Unsolicited]

Quick answers. I and others can go on on this if you desire.

- If you, or your provider, has a really big file you can ftp down
(temporarily) from _their_ server, do so and check the final stats.
Say +30MB. If you don't get the promised speeds, say, within a few
hundred Kbps, the problem lies entirely within their network.

  - this gets the around the excuse "it's beyond our control, it's the
public internet."

- It is exactly these sorts of questions that makes "Cedric's" OpenWRT
so very attractive. With it you can run (I assume) appropriate tests.
Particularly during the test above. This then gets the excuse of "it
must be your equipment in the home" out of the equation.

- in cable's case, support can reach out and touch your modem
directly. I believe they can then run a loopback test for you. (But,
no doubt there's a "speeds are not guaranteed" somewhere in the legalese.)

- golden has a speed test page:
http://my.execulink.com/helpdesk/internet/speedtest/index.shtml


Adam Glauser wrote, On 6/14/2007 12:08 PM:
> On 6/13/07, *Unsolicited* <unsolicited at gto.net
> <mailto:unsolicited at gto.net>> wrote:
> 
>     Prelogue (?): My Bell line (copper) here is supposed to be giving me
>     +3Mbps. I'm lucky if I get 1.
> 
> 
> How do you measure this?  I've mostly assumed that the reason I don't
> always get great speeds on a 5Mbps is more due to server bandwidth
> issues than my connection.  I'm interested to find out for sure.