[muglo] Re: Fwd: Speediest?
- From: eurogarth <eurogarth@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "muglo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <muglo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2011 09:20:50 -0400
George, your download is about what I'm supposed to be getting on my Rogers
crippled service ("hi-speed lite" vs "hi-speed" vs "hi-speed ultra, yada, yada,
yada) and the upload is OK depending on how often and hen you use it... To my
way of thinking anyway.
Garth.
On 2011-08-27, at 8:09, George Couckuyt <grandbender@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> On 2011-08-27, at 7:55 AM, eurogarth wrote:
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>> Sorry all, that damn auto correct on my iPad, and these old eyes did not
>> pick up the change... It should "speedtest.net" not speediest.net!
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>> Begin forwarded message:
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>>> From: eurogarth <eurogarth@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>> Date: 27 August, 2011 7:52:08 EDT
>>> To: MUGLO Post <muglo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> Subject: Speediest?
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>>> It seems I'm always a bit behind, but in a recent cal with Rogers support,
>>> I was directed to speediest.net to ensure my Internet speed. Sure enough,
>>> my Mac reported almost 9 MBs/sec download and around 2.5MBs/sec upload.
>>> Hoping that Mrs. Phillips didn't raise any fools, I told the guy on the
>>> phone it was about 4.5 MBs down and 2.5MBs up and he said that's a little
>>> faster up (for the level of service I'm paying for one up from "light") and
>>> just about right for uploads, but not too much to worry about!
>>> Phew, dodged that bullet I guess.
>>>
>>> Anyway, being curious, I decided to try my iPad... And low And behold when
>>> I entered speediest.net on my iPad, it asked me I wanted to download the
>>> mobile app! Hell yes!
>>> So now there it sits, on my iPad using the same wifi router as my Mac, but
>>> after 3 consecutive tests, minutes apart, the app is reporting unbelievably
>>> fast speeds: A blistering 21,5MBs/ download, 2.7 upload and of course am
>>> skeptical and curious to know if any of you have tried this and what
>>> results you're getting.
>>> Thanx,
>>> Garth.
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> The upload speed on my iMac seems turtle like?
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