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FCC needs your connection speed info!
Posted: Fri Mar 12, 2010 12:22 pm
by skier
so that they can improve national broadband penetration
FCC wrote:The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Recovery Act) was signed into law by President Obama on February 17th, 2009. The FCC is currently working in coordination with the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) to perform the FCC’s role under the Recovery Act. Specifically, in conjunction with the Broadband Technology Opportunities Program established by the Act, the FCC has been tasked with creating a National Broadband Plan by February 17, 2010. The Recovery Act states that the National Broadband Plan shall seek to ensure all people of the United States have access to broadband capability and shall establish benchmarks for meeting that goal.
if you go to
http://www.broadband.gov/ you can take a network speed test, with the results sent to the FCC so they can pinpoint what areas need access to, or improvements on, broadband.
it seems as though they have a west coast and a Central server, i ping 70ms to OOKLA (likely in Dallas), and 130 to MLAB (California possibly)
^ makes me sad, because actual connection is 180k/28k
Re: FCC needs your connection speed info!
Posted: Fri Mar 12, 2010 12:26 pm
by vbironchef
Does this apply to cable? If so I will take the test.
Re: FCC needs your connection speed info!
Posted: Fri Mar 12, 2010 12:29 pm
by skier
take the test regardless of what you have, dialup, DSL, Cable, T1, T3, fiber, wireless
Re: FCC needs your connection speed info!
Posted: Fri Mar 12, 2010 1:03 pm
by vbironchef
Took the test: results: download speed 6983 kbps, upload speed 1876kbps, latency 20 ms., jitter 2 ms. Looks like a have a good connection, I sure pay enough for it.
Re: FCC needs your connection speed info!
Posted: Fri Mar 12, 2010 1:15 pm
by vbironchef
Re: FCC needs your connection speed info!
Posted: Fri Mar 12, 2010 1:20 pm
by Major_A
Wouldn't open in FF had to run it in IE.
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Re: FCC needs your connection speed info!
Posted: Fri Mar 12, 2010 3:01 pm
by dicecca112
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Re: FCC needs your connection speed info!
Posted: Sat Mar 13, 2010 10:47 am
by Sparky
Just ran it here in So Cal.
Re: FCC needs your connection speed info!
Posted: Sat Mar 20, 2010 8:37 pm
by vbironchef
So I put in a cable modem. Took the test like 5 times and the results are all over the map. If I knew how to give you a screen shot I would. Let's just say the results of a new modem are faster but can't confirm. Every time I take the test I get a different speed.
Re: FCC needs your connection speed info!
Posted: Sat Mar 20, 2010 8:53 pm
by Major_A
Press the Print Screen button (usually by F12 or Home area). Open up Paint, Photoshop, image editor and Ctrl+V to paste in the screenshot. Then save it as either a jpg or png.
Re: FCC needs your connection speed info!
Posted: Sun Mar 21, 2010 2:37 pm
by Sparky
If you're running Windows 7 the snipping tool works well or you can use 'snagit"