C'mon ppl, let's test our Internet Speed

[deejay]

@superczar

I get 7.5- 8 KB ps on my 64 kbps Hathway connection.

Am not too sure but I’m guessing that when one is trying to view a webpage, tcp does a parity check on the datagrams/packets…therefore say a 80 kiloBYTE page won’t load in 10 seconds but more…

hwever while d/l ing a 800KB file, the same woul actually download in ~100 seconds…nott too sure what the logic behind this is…will google this in the day an post

superczar,

Data Compression.

[superczar]

hmmm…But how id this data compression different than the file compression algorithms used by say zip/rar files or already compressed files like jpegs?