Internet Bandwidth Speed Test

[Mark L]

^ No PS here William. I've been lazy and will learn within the next week. that's a commitment

[Ian Brewster]

PrintScreen will work as described by William, but using Word instead. I didn't know we could upload Word documents to this site, but we can indeed, using the second (? - check your screen) icon from the LHS in the top row - see attached,
(it will also work direct into an e-mail)
Ian

[Ian Brewster]

Thanks Arthur and Mark,

My Router is already set up. Not sure if I have looked in the right Status area, but I cannot see the Modem as such. However, the attached screen shot shows some data - is this what I want?

Mark, the other attachment shows what I could find from Control Panel>Network Connections>Local Area Network - is this what you expected? I am with Optus but don't know how to get the DNS (?) address - I believe it changes each time I connect.


PS( LAN shows 1 Gbps - is this meaningful?)
Ian

[dieselpower]

In the router status.doc you're in the right place - but I can't see detail in what you've posted and can't make out what it says. I have a feeling though, that what you're looking for isn't in the popup window on top, but it should show in the window behind that what the sync rate is. I can't remember exactly the wording, and I don't have access to a netgear router to check, but I think it should be something like 'line downstream' and 'line upstream'. It will be measured in kbps and may look something like: line downstream: 8192kbps.

Your external IP will change each time you connect, but that doesn't affect the internal address of the router - it's always fixed. The address on your computer is assigned by the router (it gives addressing to all devices that connect to it from the inside segment, ie. plugged in via lan or on wireless(. This should rarely, if ever change on your machine.

I'll try and get onto a netgear modem tonight and find the exact wording for you.

[Ian Brewster]

In the router status.doc you're in the right place - but I can't see detail in what you've posted and can't make out what it says. I have a feeling though, that what you're looking for isn't in the popup window on top, but it should show in the window behind that what the sync rate is. I can't remember exactly the wording, and I don't have access to a netgear router to check, but I think it should be something like 'line downstream' and 'line upstream'. It will be measured in kbps and may look something like: line downstream: 8192kbps.

I'll try and get onto a netgear modem tonight and find the exact wording for you.

Many thanks for this attention. I'll try and get a better screen shot - I ran into trouble with file size limits on this site.

(Screen shot now attached)

Ian

[dieselpower]

OK - what you have there is a router, not a modem/router - the WAN port plugs into another modem. It's the modem which will show your line speed and stats. This is not an unusual setup, but it's not overly common - most people just have the one device.

To find the stats you'll need to bypass the modem but, at the risk of completely hosing your network, it might be better to let it lie? It's definitely possible to do but it will likely take a fair amount of screwing around to do...

[Ian Brewster]

Thanks Dieselpower,

I'll leave well alone! I had enough trouble getting the router set up.

Ian

[Mark L]

PrintScreen will work as described by William, .....

Today learned how to do screen shots using a thing called Snipping Tool in Vista. Can save as a JPEG. Here's where I found out about it..... http://graphicssoft.about.com/od/mic...ippingtool.htm

Now lets see if it actually works,

Capture.JPG
Another Capture.JPG

Sorry to hijack the thread Am.

[William]

I think he's got it , I think he's got it, Good stuff Mark , Now just remember to use it when you see something weird that you need for reference to show somone something Well done , Took me a while to work it out as well

[ameerat42]

It's all over!

Technician came, tested this and that.
That's it: get a new phone wall socket, for a few bucks.
Line speed was a clean 15000KBits/sec straight through the phone wires.
Through the wall socket it was hardly working.

Today's bandwidth figures varied between 4000 and 6000KBits/sec.

Am (hppier now)