In article <Xns9856A220C8BF6ikkezelf@199.45.49.11>,
Han <nobody@nospam.not> wrote:
> Yet I am able to get to the New York server of Speakeasy which gives me (I
> thought through a java applet) up and download speeds for my Verizon DSL at
> 3 Mbs-700 Kbps. 2800 Kbps down, 687 Kbps up, close enough for a Sunday
> from North Jersey.

Speakeasy's speed test (assuming you are talking about the ones at
www.speakeasy.net/speedtest) use Flash, not Java. You can check this by
right-clicking on them, and a menu with Flash options will pop up.

The tests at broadbandreports.com use Java. Maybe you were remembering
those?

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--Tim Smith