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| Test your internet connection speed, by
analyzing the efficiency of your connection during a large file down- load. What you are testing is not just the speed into your computer, but the speed of the slowest link between you and the test server. |
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 ISDN 128Kbps |
 ADSL 1.5Mbps |
 Satellite Dish 400Kbps |
 Cable Modem 1.5Mbps |
 T1 1.540Mbps |
 Hardware Connection Speeds, Standardized Communication Speed A detailed listing of standard analog, digital and fiberoptic communication connection speeds measured in Kbps, Mbps, Gbps and Bits Per Second. Kbps = Kilobits per second; Mbps = Megabits per second; Gbps = Gigabits per second |
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| Other Online Network Utilities | |||
| WhoIs's | TraceRoute's | Ping's | Finger's |
| An Internet directory service, similar to finger, used to look up names of people on a remote server. You can use whois through third-party utilites on Windows and Macintosh machines, and through the command-line interface in Unix. Most commonly, you use whois to look up domain ownerships and contact addresses. | Traceroute is a utility that allows you to see how and where information travels on the Net. It traces the path a packet takes as it is sent from your computer to a destination computer (such as the server for a Web site). When encountering a particularly slow Web site, a Traceroute program can help you evaluate which link in the Internet chain is responsible for the lag time. | Ping is a program that "bounces" a request off of another computer over a network to see if the remote computer is still responding. If the ping comes back, the remote computer is still alive. | Finger is a program that you point at the username of someone on a networked system. It uncovers that person's full name, most recent log-in time, and other information. It's also used as a verb, meaning to apply the program to a username. |