Measuring speeds

[bene-Gk2boCrsRs1AfugRpC6u6w at public.gmane.org (Ben Eisenbraun)]

> On Sat, Apr 04, 2009 at 11:06:41AM -0400, Scott R. Ehrlich wrote:
> How does speakeasy do it?   They offer a download and upload test.  Not 
> sure how they actually perform said tests.

It's a flash app that pulls down a file and then puts it back.

I have also seen java apps that will do this, e.g. http://speedtest.rcn.net.

-ben

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