My friend, Ken Spry, sent me a link the other day to a web site that tests your connection (broadband) speeds. I tried both it and BellSouth’s test page today just for comparison sake.

Here are the results from http://www.speedtest.net/: (click the image for a larger view)

The interface for the speedtest.net version is all shiney and nice! It’s fun to use as well.

And here are the results from http://speed.fastaccess.com/:

They appear to agree with each other which is nice, I am never sure if the ISP based speed test is “rigged” to report what they sold you vs. what you are actually getting.