[SATLUG] OT: for Roadrunner users...

[Tom Weeks]

Never mind... I just found out that the "speed test" sites that I was using 
were not fast enough to accurately test my home speed.  I just pulled a 6MB 
file from my web server at Rackspace (non-throttled) and got 593.6 kB/s 
(!!!).

Now that's screaming'!

I know that this is going to peg my xcssa site bandwidth.. but as a public 
service, if some of you want to test your speed more accurately against 
eachother (and you're local to SA), then pull down this file from my web 
server FROM THE COMMAND LINE:
	$ wget http://theweeks.org/tmp/FILES/six-point-4-MB-file.bin

FYI...  My results were:

Avg Down:		592.1 kB/s (~ 5.9 Mb/s)
Avg Up:		44.5 kB/s (~0.445 Mb/s)

Man...  I would trade 1Mbps of downlink speed for 500 kbps more uplink speed!

I wonder if RR could be convinced to have a "geek account" that would allow 
the geek customer to trade their uplink and dwnlink speeds to optimize it for 
their needs.  Anyone heard of anything like this?

Tweeks