To dovetail on the below http://www.speedtest.net/ is a good place to test from. You can pick points all over the world and see what you get.
FWIW I had a bonded T1 at a 50 user office, it was not enough. It was saturated. HOWEVER, these were heavy surfers and downloaders, an advertising agency..... From: richardmccl...@aspca.org [mailto:richardmccl...@aspca.org] Sent: Tuesday, November 10, 2009 10:53 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: INTERNET SLOWNESS There's a chance you no longer have bonded T1's... Go online to find connection testers. See if your bandwidth is 1000 - 1500 rather than approaching 3000. This would indicate a failed T1 somewhere. Then, check your services router (where the two T1's connect), then possibly the building's NetPOP to check for lights. When this happened to us a few months back, we lucked out. The break was a bad cable between the wall jack and the router. (What we were dreading was to find that the long long cable between our server room and the building NetPOP was broken - that would have been slow and expensive to replace!) -- Richard D. McClary Systems Administrator, Information Technology Group ASPCA(r) 1717 S. Philo Rd, Ste 36 Urbana, IL 61802 richardmccl...@aspca.org P: 217-337-9761 C: 217-417-1182 F: 217-337-9761 www.aspca.org<http://www.aspca.org/> The information contained in this e-mail, and any attachments hereto, is from The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals(r) (ASPCA(r)) and is intended only for use by the addressee(s) named herein and may contain legally privileged and/or confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution, copying or use of the contents of this e-mail, and any attachments hereto, is strictly prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please immediately notify me by reply email and permanently delete the original and any copy of this e-mail and any printout thereof. "Murray Freeman" <mfree...@alanet.org> wrote on 11/10/2009 09:44:57 AM: > Good Morning. I'm trying to determine the cause of internet access > slowness here. We are a small organization of fewer than 40 > employees, and use a bonded T1 line (3.0) for internet access. Our > staff has complained about internet access slowness to me and I've > suggested tha the problem is with the Internet, not our access. We > are not budgeted to increase our access, and I'm not sure that that > is the answer. Using Internet Explorer 8, I can see by the status > bar at the bottom the message "waiting" and the url involved. Am I > missing something here? Are there some things I can do to speed up > internet access, or is the Internet just too clogged with activity? > > Murray > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
