Re: Internet Health & Speed Testing.
Man, some of you have some really great internet service. I wish I could get over 1.0 Mbps on a regular basis. That would make me happy.
My neighbor is working with the town to check the contract with the cable provider to see if we can get cable here. He says it will be sometime in 2008, but I'm not going to hold my breath. I'll stick with the mobile broadband for now, its the fastest service I can get right now.
I'm installing a PCS amp (cell phone amp) and directional panel antenna. Hopefully that will push the signal up enough to get 1.5 to 2.5 Mbps on a regular basis.
Will post my new speed next week!
BTW, Caveman, get yourself a good excellerator like Propel (see propel.com). Its about $45 year, and will really speed up your basic surfing speed by compressing the heck out of the web page before sending it to you. Propel program on your PC then uncompresses and puts the page on your screen. I used it for years with my ISDN service and it was well worth the $45. Beats the heck out of the free accelerators supplied by most internet (dial up) providers. Also blocks a lot of the animated advertising, so that speeds things up too. It will show an improvement on connections up to about 600Kbps, over that it does nothing.
