I agree with Nailgrinder and oWn3d. The only way to know how your connection is doing is to watch it in realtime over a period of time. It helps to find a source that can consistently spit out large files faster than you can take them in. I've always found that any of the large images from »
www.ssec.wisc.edu/data/g8/ work well. Dumeter is an excellent tool for this sort of thing. It is worth every penny of the registration fee.
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