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Subject: 
Website Host speeds
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lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.publish
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Date: 
Tue, 9 Sep 2003 04:01:55 GMT
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Does anyone know of a good way to compare the speed of website hosts that does
not involve pinging?  I'm particularly interested in comparing the speeds of:

www.bldesign.org (currently hosted by atlnetworks.com)
www.scibrick.org (hosted by atlnetworks.com)
www.jhkruer.com  (hosted by icdsoft.com)

Thanks!
--Bram



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  Re: Website Host speeds
 
(...) If you can find a traceroute server close enough to your location, I think it would provide a somewhat accurate representation of what you want. Go to Google and search for "traceroute" -Orion (21 years ago, 9-Sep-03, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
  Re: Website Host speeds
 
(...) Find decently-large files on each site and compare their download speeds. For me both at BU and on my DSL connection at home, the first two are blazingly fast and the third is pretty slow. The fast ones I get at over a megabyte a second (...) (21 years ago, 9-Sep-03, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)

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