Internet speed check

[Lonni J Friedman]

On Jan 29, 2008 2:45 PM, James McDonald <james at jamesmcdonald.id.au> wrote:
> Ben Duncan wrote:
> > If I had speeds like that...
> I'm in what we call an ADSL 1 area so we are limited to 1500/256.
>
> There are a few area's (major capital cities) that have 8000kbps services.
>
> Fortunately the new government over here (Australia) says it's going to
> spend $2 billion on a high speed broadband for the whole country... I
> would love to be able to stream a movie without having to watch it in
> buffer segments.

You trust your govt not to fsck up internet service?  Anyway, that's
what bittorrent's for  :)

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