[Scottish] Network testing tools?

[Huard, Elise - D C&W Consultant]

The thing is, in Belgium it feels much faster (but maybe that's subjective,
home sweet home and mom's cooking is the best in the world and all that).
How i measured : by ftp-ing stuff, or by apt-getting, just daily use
basically, i didn't do any certified tests.
But i'll double-check - apologies to the british providers if i raved too
soon :-)

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> From: 	Rory Macdonald[SMTP:rory at employees.org]
> Sent: 	04 December 2003 18:09
> To: 	Huard, Elise - D C&W Consultant
> Cc: 	slug
> Subject: 	RE: [Scottish] Network testing tools?
> 
> On Thu, 2003-12-04 at 11:08, Huard, Elise - D C&W Consultant wrote:
> 
> > by the way, ADSL in the UK is a pure rip-off.  I have a connection at
> home,
> > about ?20/month, and at best i get 65-70Kb/s.  I complained about this,
> and
> > i was told this was normal for my package.
> > My brother in Belgium pays the same, and he gets 300-320kB/s !!  I don't
> > think there's a rational (non-market related) explanation for such a
> > difference.
> 
> I'm in the UK and I'm very happy with my ?19/month ADSL service,
> normally seeing well over 450Kbps. Are you sure you're not reading
> 65-70KBps ('B'ytes instead of 'b'its)? What procedure are you using to
> get your figures?
> 
> Rory
> 
> -- 
> Rory Macdonald <rory at employees.org>
> 
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