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To: Curtis E. Bemis who wrote (6928)	5/13/2000 11:17:00 AM
From: MikeM54321	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12823

Curtis- My GTE Worldwind cable modem reports 545Kbps download and only 152Kbps upload speeds at your posted url. Not very fast for a cable modem. And I too, like John reports, seem to be delayed by the GTE metro network on my way to the Internet backbone. I know this because four weeks ago, while traveling on business, I was using a 56k dial-up with my laptop. And I'm afraid to say, I hardly noticed the difference in speeds. I was using AOLnet to log on at that time. Kind of sad commentary about cable modems. It costs me about $40/month for Internet access. It also includes an ISP of whom I have no idea who it is. But only if I purchase the cable TV package from GTE Americast. Without the cable TV package, I believe the cable modem access would cost about $50/month. -MikeM(From Florida)

To: Curtis E. Bemis who wrote (6928)	5/14/2000 1:28:00 AM
From: Raymond Duray	Respond to of 12823

Nice tool Curtis, I just got 970x190K out of my 3Com CMX cable modem. R.

To: Curtis E. Bemis who wrote (6928)	5/14/2000 1:58:00 AM
From: Raymond Duray	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 12823

Upon Further Examination.... Hi Curtis, Do you know if dslreports.com is strictly for DSL setups? I'm getting some drastically different numbers at this test site than I am at another, I've run multiple tests at each. Here are my results: dslreports.com __798x553Kbps _9744x761 _8120x451 Infinity x434 _9744x716 _9744x_79 _9744x434 _4429x553 48720x716 _4429x369 computingcentral.com 1127Kbps __68 _354 _816 _337 _370 1073 1236 1854 _566 1236 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ What I can sense is that the later figures from Computing Central seem more in keeping with my sense of the real bit rate. Comments welcomed. Oh, BTW, Bend Cable, here in Bend,OR has recently upgraded its head-ends to accomodate growth and I find that I am no better off. I regularly visit www.kksf.com and stream their audio signal and almost every session get interrupts on a 20.7K steaming audio feed, due to network congestion, according to the Real Network data line. I believe that the DSL test you've offered may not be accurate or useful to cable modem users. Again, comments welcomed, as I am no expert here. Best, Ray

To: Curtis E. Bemis who wrote (6928)	5/14/2000 10:50:00 PM
From: John Stichnoth	Respond to of 12823

Curtis, on your site I got: Est. speed down/up: 478/64kbps These speeds appear to be in excess of the (several generation old?) routers/servers that BEL/GTE still have in the network, at the edge. They also appear to be faster than firewall software can handle. My wife's response time at work is slower than what I am getting at home, and her office connection is almost a direct connection to the backbone--but, it is then filtered through the firewall. Best, JS