Simon,
I hope that your router has SNMP.
Please get SNMP graphs from the ISP. Any ISP worth its I will give you access to your usage graphs.
Then conduct tests with heavy downloads from the internet (perhaps a heavily seeded torrent), that will show you what download speeds you are able to achieve.
Still not a guru but aiming there
Please note this is a just a test to see your available throughput.

2009/9/29 Simon Mbuthia <simon.mbuthia@gmail.com>
Hi Skunktoids,

We got this deal from some ISP which I won't name for now, and they tell us that our speeds are 1MBps for both the uplink and downlink, but I highly doubt what they are telling us. Files normally download at a speed of 100kbps on average, and I do not think that that correctly reflects what the ISP is saying. However, I am not an expert on this matters, and that is why I have sought to ask the gurus on the list to shed some light.

Attached hereto is a speedtest.net result graphic for more info. Thanks.


Me.

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