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ok so im bored, and im doing a few speed tests on my cox cable internet.

the gentoo mirror i use, is blazing fast.

$ emerge nvidia-kernel
Calculating dependencies … done!
>>> Emerging (1 of 1) media-video/nvidia-kernel-1.0.8756 to /
>>> Downloading http://gentoo.llarian.net/distfiles/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-8756-pkg1.run
–18:35:36– http://gentoo.llarian.net/distfiles/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-8756-pkg1.run
=> `/usr/portage/distfiles/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-8756-pkg1.run’
Resolving portageproxy… 192.168.48.42
Connecting to portageproxy|192.168.48.42|:8080… connected.
Proxy request sent, awaiting response… 200 OK
Length: 12,961,804 (12M) [text/plain]

100%[====================================================>] 12,961,804 614.60K/s ETA 00:00

18:35:55 (703.25 KB/s) - `/usr/portage/distfiles/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-8756-pkg1.run’ saved [12961804/12961804]

the speakeasy test has a nice flash 7 interface which interface, but it doesnt seem to be performing well, atleast from their networks.

from LAX.
Download Speed: 2323 kbps (290.4 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 442 kbps (55.3 KB/sec transfer rate)

from DFW
Download Speed: 3958 kbps (494.8 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 413 kbps (51.6 KB/sec transfer rate)

here’s some using a cheapie firefox extension which is way off too.
Your current download speed is:
4.39 Mbps
which means you can download at 561.5 KB/sec from our servers.
Your current upload speed is:
260.00kbps
which means you can upload at 32.5 KB/sec to our servers.

it felt like the speak easy test was a lil slow so i went waited a few minutes and tried again.

from LAX it got a lil bit better speeds.
Download Speed: 2938 kbps (367.3 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 483 kbps (60.4 KB/sec transfer rate)

from DFW it’s definately faster.
Download Speed: 7056 kbps (882 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 492 kbps (61.5 KB/sec transfer rate)