I know AOL uses the Akami CDN so you should be hitting a local server. Still seems kinda slow. At least I calculate that out to be about half a megabit per second. Is that what you expected? I usually hit about two or three megabits at home on my cablemodem. How did things fare on the speedometer test? Of course the link I gave had US on the beginning so you might be hauling data back from the states, which is probably not a realistic performance test.
CB william lomas wrote: > thanks i got the installer at 42 seconds for AOL and here in the UK is > peak time now > > On 12 May 2009, at 17:16, Esther wrote: > > >> Hi Chris, >> >> What you can do is run a Google search for "speed test java". The >> issue is that the results may depend on geographical area, so I don't >> know what works for Will in the UK. If I use: >> >> http://www.dslreports.com/speedtest?java=1 >> >> and VO-Down Arrow from the "Speed Test" heading, I'll get links to a >> number of sites to try (e.g., San Francisco, Palo Alto, Los Angeles, >> and some point in New Jersey). The test results depend on the site I >> choose -- it's better to choose a site nearby to send upload and >> download packets. >> >> After choosing a site, the page reloads, and if you VO-Down Arrow from >> the "Speed Test" heading you'll reach the start button. VO-Space to >> press it. You can use your arrow keys (e.g. VO-Up Arrow) to get >> information about the test in progress. If you arrow around you'll >> find out when they start the upload and download tests and there is >> even a progress bar indicator. It may take a minute or so to finish. >> >> When the test ends the page will update, and you'll hear "HTML >> content". Results are reported as either graphics or text. Use item >> chooser menu to find "results" in text format on the page and select >> (VO-space). VO-Down Arrow to read the results. >> >> You might want to wait until a low traffic time to try this. I think >> you're only allowed a certain number of tries (like 20 per server) as >> a non-subscriber, and although I ran a number of tests two or three >> hours ago, I just get server busy messages now when I press the start >> button, and they appear to count as "tries". >> >> This is obviously a U.S. based site. >> >> Cheers, >> >> Esther >> >> On May 12, 2009, at 4:49 AM, Chris Blouch wrote: >> >> >>> Most of the speed test things I've found were Flash based and >>> inaccessible. A brute force way to do it would be to download a >>> reasonably large file from a known fast service and time it. One >>> possibility is downloading the AOL Mac installer from here: >>> >>> http://free.aol.com/tryaolfree/dnld_aol/aol_sell.adp >>> >>> which is 18.6MB. So if you download it and it takes 10 seconds then >>> you >>> know that you're getting around 1.8MB/s. I also found a site that >>> does >>> something like this and presents the results as HTML text so it is >>> accessible: >>> >>> http://us.mcafee.com/root/speedometer/default.asp >>> >>> CB >>> >>> william lomas wrote: >>> >>>> hi is there an accessible site for us voiceover users, to gain our >>>> speed tests for our internet connections? >>>> Will >>>> >>>> >>>> >> > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
