What's the best way to measure my possible bandwidth?

guartho

I have some seriously shitty outbound bandwidth on my "high-speed" wireless ISP. I'm going to tinker with my antenna position and see if I can correct the problem before deciding to dump them. I know I have shitty bandwidth because e-mail attachments take awhile to send and iChat can't establish a video chat 9/10 times and when it does it's craptacular compared to my old QS G4 at home. (This is a 1.9 iMac G5 w/ 1.5 gigs of RAM btw.)



Anyway, that's the setup, here's the meat of the problem. I need to view my current outbound bandwidth as my dad moves the antenna around outside. I've got the iStat widget, but I think it just tells me how much outbound bandwidth I'm using. I really need to know how much I have.



Also, since this is a one-time thing I need it to be a free app or widget. Of course, if there's an easy way to do this right in Tiger I'll feel dumb for not finding it, but I'll still be greatly appreciative.



thanks,

Mark Warren

fahlman

http://speakeasy.net/speedtest/

guartho

Thanks, that's exactly what I'll be needing.

xool

Be sure that you're not doing other stuff during the test and that others or other devices in your household aren't using the line either.