"Lloyd E. Sponenburgh" <lloydspinsidemindspring.com> hath wroth:

>Is there a quick and dirty tool that will allow me to measure the actual
>DSL link speed, to find out if I've actually gotten the bandwidth I'm
>paying for?

You want to use the tool that's closest to your ISP. I have no clue
where you're located.

Speakeasy is fairly close to Earthlink at least on the left coast of
the USA.
<http://www.speakeasy.net/speedtest/>

PBI/SBC/AT&T has their own speed test at:
<http://helpme.att.net/dsl/speedtest/>

Also:
<http://www.dslreports.com/speedtest>

I like the Web100 tests, which give more information than just the
speed:
<http://nitro.ucsc.edu>
See list of other servers near bottom of page.

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