Tuesday, November 18, 2008

Testing your connection

Phone

I was pleased that some found my reference to Speedtest.net useful for checking the speed of their connections. Can I remind you that this kind of test needs to be repeated at different times of the day because it will vary - hopefully not by too much.

If you are contemplating VoIP for your phone calls or if you currently use VoIP and want a measure of your call quality, then it might be useful to also visit this site.

The score you will get is from 1 to 5. To help you make sense of this they have given very apt descriptions of what the numbers mean:-

  • less than 2 - Forget the phone, try Pony Express
  • 2.8 - Like tin cans and string
  • 3.2 - As bad as a crummy cell phone call
  • 3.8 -As good as a decent cell phone call
  • 4.4 - Like calling next door
  • 5 - Better than being there!

This is a different type of test to that at speedtest.com.

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