New website to test your connection

[[BT]Vorden]

I'm sure your all familiar with http://www.speedtest.net but they have a new sister site called http://www.pingtest.net that tests more than just download and upload speed. They test a couple of extra things that are importaint to online gaming and video conferencing etc, here's a description from their site below. They take all this into account and give your connection a grade from A to F as it relates to gaming connection quality. I thought it was handy, especially if you travel a lot like I do. check it out.


Packet Loss

Much as it sounds, if you have anything less than complete success in transmitting and receiving "packets" of data then you are experiencing this problem with your Internet connection. It can mean much slower download and upload speeds, poor quality VoIP audio, pauses with streaming media and what seems like time warping in games -- your connection may even come to a total standstill! Packet loss is a metric where anything greater than 0% should cause concern.


Ping

This measurement tells how long it takes a "packet" of data to travel from your computer to a server on the Internet and back. Whenever you experience delayed responses in Internet applications - this would be due to a higher than desired ping. Similar to packet loss, lower is better when it comes to ping. A result below 100 ms should be expected from any decent broadband connection.


Jitter

Once you understand ping, jitter should also make sense. Jitter is merely the variance in measuring successive ping tests. Zero jitter means the results were exactly the same every time, and anything above zero is the amount by which they varied. Like the other quality measurements, a lower jitter value is better. And while some jitter should be expected over the Internet, having it be a small fraction of the ping result is ideal.

[[BT]Mugsy Malone]

Cool test, thanks for posting.

[BT]Mugsy Malone

[[BT]MrsVorden]

So the desert isn't the greatest place to download stuff. lol I couldn't do the other site. Firewall or something in the way. It was a fun waste of time trying though. lol

[[BT]Vorden]

wow, Its a wonder teamspeak works at all!

Here's the one from work, rather impressive.