Thursday, December 20, 2007

How Fast Are You?

Speedtest.net allows you to check your upload and download speeds for free, and they've got a pretty slick interface to boot. Here were my stats:



As a little experiment, I opened a Bittorrent (Phish at the IT Festival in Limestone, Maine - 08-02-03) and was dismayed but not surprised to watch my download speed bottom out at 3kbps. And that's with five seeders. At this rate, my 592 MB file will be transfered in about 8 days.

No thanks, Comcast. I'll just get my friends to burn me the CD. Maybe those stupid turtles in the commercials (a.k.a. "The Slowsky's") just need to open up their own P2P file sharing network.

On second thought,the turtles aren't stupid. I'm just not feeling very Comcastic at the moment.

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