Tim Smith <reply_in_group@mouse-potato.com> wrote in
news:reply_in_group-158F69.22591208102006@news.supernews.com:

> 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?
>
Thanks! Both ways work, but the broadband reports site says I am quite a
bit slower than speakeasy. Of course, the closest server to me was not
available, and I had to go to Miami, rather than Parsippany ...

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Best regards
Han
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