Wildblue Connection Speeds (actual)

[ktriebol]

I am a new WB customer. Is there a way to view the actual download and upload speeds in real time? It would be best if that info was in graph form, but numerical data would be OK.

 

[ktriebol]

It seems that I have found the answer to this question. If you go to the Wildblue Help section, there is information there about how to use a web site called Toast.net to test both your upload and download speeds. I tried it out and it seems to work!

 

[HCI]

this is a better website

testmy.net - speed test and broadband tools

gives you results like this

DOWN
Your connection is: 2070 Kbps or 2.1 Mbps
You downloaded at: 253 kB/s
You are running: 36 times faster than 56K and can download 1 megabyte in 4.05 second(s)
Member Ident: CompID:615722116214
Test Time:: 2007/08/18 - 9:42am
Test Browser and OS info: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.8.1.6) Gecko/20070725 Firefox/2.0.0.6
Test ID: OYK9M7F5G (if this is a screenshot go to testmy.net to see if this is fake)
Diagnosis ^info^: Awesome! 20% + : 94.55 % faster than the average for host (direcpc.com)
This was tested from a 2992 kB file and took 11.84 seconds to complete

UP
Your connection is: 202 Kbps or 0.2 Mbps
You uploaded at: 25 kB/s
You are running: 4 times faster than 56K and can upload 1 megabyte in 40.96 second(s)
Member Ident: CompID:615722116214
Test Time:: 2007/08/18 - 9:46am
Test Browser and OS info: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.8.1.6) Gecko/20070725 Firefox/2.0.0.6
Test ID: 9WB7PLKOH (if this is a screenshot go to testmy.net to see if this is fake)
Diagnosis ^info^: Awesome! 20% + : 83.64 % faster than the average for host (direcpc.com)
This was tested from a 2992 kB file and took 121.043 seconds to complete

 

[ktriebol]

You're right. I do like your site better, especially the way you can do both the download and upload in one test.

 

[Jared Twomey]

i like testmy, and I also use Speedtest.net - The Global Broadband Speed Test and Speakeasy - Speed Test
those are the 3 I use everyday and they all seem to be pretty right on most of the time