Dear Sven, Steve, and Sue,

Your comments were very interesting.

Sven, I have a standard dialup, not a high-speed one - although I understand
from your message that a high-speed dialup would not make a significant
difference.

Steve and Sue, I took your suggestion. I tried the Bandwidth meter that you
suggested below. Although my modem
reports a connection of 44.0 KBps, the Bandwidth meter reported only 33.4! I
therefore understand that the computer hardware or the modem reports a
certain speed, but the real speed can only be checked by a diagnostics
program.

I would like to thank you for helping to clarify this issue. I'd also like
to thank PC-Build for hosting this dialogue. This forum is fantastic!

David Grossman


----- Original Message -----
From: "Sue Clark" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2004 9:46 AM
Subject: Re: [PCBUILD] Modem speed


> Here are a couple you can try. Or you can google for more.
>
> http://reviews-zdnet.com.com/Bandwidth_meter/7004-7254_16-
> 0.html
> http://speedcheck2.optonline.net/speedcheck/speedcheck.html
>
> Sue Clark
> Bristol. ME
> On 6 Apr 2004 at 0:04, David Grossman wrote:
>
> > Can you tell me about some sites that measure *real* connection speed?
> > David Grossman

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