[123629] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: FCC releases Internet speed test tool
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joe Greco)
Fri Mar 12 09:17:03 2010
From: Joe Greco <jgreco@ns.sol.net>
To: tme@americafree.tv (Marshall Eubanks)
Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2010 08:16:29 -0600 (CST)
In-Reply-To: <9085B96B-EF03-4BC9-86C7-BC096D5E3A63@americafree.tv> from
"Marshall Eubanks" at Mar 12, 2010 08:43:22 AM
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org list" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
> This might be useful to some.
>
> Article :
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> http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE62B08720100312
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> site :
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> http://www.broadband.gov/
>
> It requires giving your address.
Correction: it _requires_ Java. It _asks_ for your address. It seems
like it'd work fine if you gave it your neighbor's address. :-)
I noted that I got wildly varying numbers on a laptop and an iPhone (there
is also an iPhone app) and the iPhone app doesn't ask for an address. Both
on the same wifi, and the numbers were off by a lot.
... JG
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Joe Greco - sol.net Network Services - Milwaukee, WI - http://www.sol.net
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