Uploading and Downloading and City Download Speed
CSIT 251 Assignment 3.
Use Microsoft Word to do Application Exercise . Numerous Web sites are available that will test your Internet data communications speed. You can find a good one at Speakeasy (www.speakeasy.net/speedtest). (If that site is no longer active, perform a search for "What is my Internet speed?" to find another speed-testing site. Use it.)
a. While connected to your university's network, go to Speakeasy and test your speed against servers in Seattle, New York City, and Atlanta. Compute your average upload and download speeds. Compare your speed to the speeds listed in Figure 6-11.
b. Go home, or to a public wireless site, and run the Speakeasy test again. Compute your average upload and download speeds. Compare your speed to those listed in Figure 6-11. If you are performing this test at home, are you getting the performance you are paying for?
c. Contact a friend or relative in another state. Ask him or her to run the Speakeasy test against those same three cities.
d. Compare the results in parts a, b, and c. What conclusion, if any, can you make from these tests?
Assignment due date is on Monday Dec. 9 (before lecture).
Assignment submission: submit a file to the Drop Box and in class.
Answers:
CSIT Assignment 3
A) University Network
City Download Speed (Mbps) Upload Speed (Mbps)
Seattle 7.53 21.76
New York 25.98 38.87
Atlanta 31.24 17.45
B) Home Network
City Download Speed (Mbps) Upload Speed (Mbps)
Seattle 3.24 1.11
New York 4.21 1.07
Atlanta 6.95 1.12
C) Another State/Country (Burlington, ON, Canada)
City Download Speed (Mbps) Upload Speed (Mbps)
Seattle 19.95 8.05
New York 29.88 9.88
Atlanta 20.31 9.77
D) After reading through the book and even talking with technicians at Nixon hall, the speeds for uploading and downloading can be affected by all sorts of circumstances. From my results the upload/download was a lot faster on the university network versus the home network. For the home network
Use Microsoft Word to do Application Exercise . Numerous Web sites are available that will test your Internet data communications speed. You can find a good one at Speakeasy (www.speakeasy.net/speedtest). (If that site is no longer active, perform a search for "What is my Internet speed?" to find another speed-testing site. Use it.)
a. While connected to your university's network, go to Speakeasy and test your speed against servers in Seattle, New York City, and Atlanta. Compute your average upload and download speeds. Compare your speed to the speeds listed in Figure 6-11.
b. Go home, or to a public wireless site, and run the Speakeasy test again. Compute your average upload and download speeds. Compare your speed to those listed in Figure 6-11. If you are performing this test at home, are you getting the performance you are paying for?
c. Contact a friend or relative in another state. Ask him or her to run the Speakeasy test against those same three cities.
d. Compare the results in parts a, b, and c. What conclusion, if any, can you make from these tests?
Assignment due date is on Monday Dec. 9 (before lecture).
Assignment submission: submit a file to the Drop Box and in class.
Answers:
CSIT Assignment 3
A) University Network
City Download Speed (Mbps) Upload Speed (Mbps)
Seattle 7.53 21.76
New York 25.98 38.87
Atlanta 31.24 17.45
B) Home Network
City Download Speed (Mbps) Upload Speed (Mbps)
Seattle 3.24 1.11
New York 4.21 1.07
Atlanta 6.95 1.12
C) Another State/Country (Burlington, ON, Canada)
City Download Speed (Mbps) Upload Speed (Mbps)
Seattle 19.95 8.05
New York 29.88 9.88
Atlanta 20.31 9.77
D) After reading through the book and even talking with technicians at Nixon hall, the speeds for uploading and downloading can be affected by all sorts of circumstances. From my results the upload/download was a lot faster on the university network versus the home network. For the home network