My status was smokin' for about 10 minutes because my Value Pack connection was downloading at the speed of Pro Pack. I ran the speed tests after the file completed downloading and they show the advertised speeds for Value Pack. I captured the speed using Windows' Task Manager and Firefox's download manager. If Wildblue gave us this every late night, it would compensate for prime time slowdown
Weather: light snow, calm wind, 30 F, humidity: 38%
Weather at Riverside, CA: Doppler radar shows clear at 12:49 MST.
Using Riverside proxy for Anik-F2::::.. Download Stats ..:::
Download Connection is::
546 Kbps about 0.5 Mbps (tested with 1544 kB)
Download Speed is:: 67 kB/s
Tested From:: »
testmy.net/ (Main)
Test Time:: 2010-04-01 06:43:45 GMT
Bottom Line:: 10X faster than 56K 1MB Download in 15.28 sec
Tested from a 1544 kB file and took 23.163 seconds to complete
Download Diagnosis:: May need help : running at only 64.62 % of your hosts average (wildblue.net)
D-Validation Link:: »
testmy.net/stats/id-AM5EPTS0VUser Agent:: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.18; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; ffco7) Gecko/20081029 Firefox/2.0.0.18 [!]
:::.. Upload Stats ..:::
Upload Connection is::
104 Kbps about 0.1 Mbps (tested with 579 kB)
Upload Speed is:: 13 kB/s
Tested From:: »
testmy.net/ (Main)
Test Time:: 2010-04-01 06:46:15 GMT
Bottom Line:: 2X faster than 56K 1MB Upload in 78.77 sec
Tested from a 579 kB file and took 45.495 seconds to complete
Upload Diagnosis:: May need help : running at only 74.29 % of your hosts average (wildblue.net)
U-Validation Link:: »
testmy.net/stats/id-4KZE6NI8RPING -n 20 -w 8000 12.213.224.60
Packets: Sent = 20, Received = 20, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 1297ms, Maximum = 1378ms, Average = 1323ms
The following image shows my download speed while downloading a file:
