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Re: FCC releases Internet speed test tool
From: Joe Greco <jgreco () ns sol net>
Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2010 08:16:29 -0600 (CST)
This might be useful to some. Article : http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE62B08720100312 site : 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 -- Joe Greco - sol.net Network Services - Milwaukee, WI - http://www.sol.net "We call it the 'one bite at the apple' rule. Give me one chance [and] then I won't contact you again." - Direct Marketing Ass'n position on e-mail spam(CNN) With 24 million small businesses in the US alone, that's way too many apples.
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