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buzzy
Joined: 04 Jan 2011
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Location: In a small wood on the edge of the Huntingdonshire Wolds
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 Posted: Sun Apr 09, 17 4:50 pm Post subject: Speed test software |
 
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Can anybody recommend a (preferably free) piece of software that will check broadband speed (on a Windows 10 PC) and I would like one that stores the records it collects by time and date.
TIA
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dpack
Joined: 02 Jul 2005
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iirc there is one called think broadband that can do that as well as total up the gigs per month(useful if you have a limit) .
once you have done with it it is a bit of a beast to remove ,disconnect from web,remove it then manually remove the self preserving/reinstall trojan that refuses to let you go 
the other downside is that it can be a bit ram hungry at times and might slow down various activities
2/5 even though it has good points |
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buzzy
Joined: 04 Jan 2011
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Location: In a small wood on the edge of the Huntingdonshire Wolds
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| Posted: Sun Apr 09, 17 5:42 pm Post subject: |
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| dpack wrote: |
iirc there is one called think broadband that can do that as well as total up the gigs per month(useful if you have a limit) .
once you have done with it it is a bit of a beast to remove ,disconnect from web,remove it then manually remove the self preserving/reinstall trojan that refuses to let you go
the other downside is that it can be a bit ram hungry at times and might slow down various activities
2/5 even though it has good points |
I think that might be overkill. I only want to check speeds now and then, and especially also when I'm at my m-I-l's house.
Don't need to keep an eye on gigs per month, my ISP kindly upgraded me to 'no limit'. (Two weeks after I had increased my monthly payment to get a few more gigs because we had been getting close to my previous limit!)
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dpack
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| Posted: Sun Apr 09, 17 6:17 pm Post subject: |
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for speeds at a given place and time any of the usual suspects ( bt etc ) will do the job |
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buzzy
Joined: 04 Jan 2011
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Location: In a small wood on the edge of the Huntingdonshire Wolds
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| Posted: Sun Apr 09, 17 7:45 pm Post subject: |
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| dpack wrote: |
| for speeds at a given place and time any of the usual suspects ( bt etc ) will do the job |
Ah, but I'm such a tyro at these things that I don't know who the usual suspects are! 
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Nick
Joined: 02 Nov 2004
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Location: Hereford
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| Posted: Sun Apr 09, 17 7:56 pm Post subject: |
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http://www.speedtest.net/
This is excellent. But I'm on a phone, and it may be mobile only. |
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Midlandsman
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Shane
Joined: 31 Oct 2005
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Location: Doha. Is hot.
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I use speedtest.net as well. IT types get snooty and tell you that the only way to genuinely test speed is to transfer a large file of known size and time it, but I've always found that when the internet is working well, speedtest gives a good result and when it's not working speedtest gives a naff result, which is good enough for me. I'm not aware it logs results, but a spreadsheet would do the same, and allow you to draw purdy graphs. |
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Treacodactyl
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Location: Jumping on the bandwagon of opportunism
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This is the one I was recommended to use by my ISP when we needed to report problems to OpenReach. http://speedtest.btwholesale.com/
I've not used it for a few years but think it can store results. |
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Loves_Suffolk
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Hairyloon
Joined: 20 Nov 2008
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Location: Today I are mostly being in Yorkshire.
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| Posted: Mon Feb 11, 19 8:32 pm Post subject: Packet radio. |
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For those who don't know, packet radio is about squirting computer data across ham radio.
That is not far off all that I know about it, but it has always struck me as being something potentially incredibly useful come the apocalypse, and with the various talk of doomsday preparations, I thought I would raise the subject... |
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dpack
Joined: 02 Jul 2005
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details please 
pretty please
a very tidy info protocol , working kit and leccy is a node
mobile linux on a stick and a working usb port is fine if one can find or make a working usb port.
am is better than gammon:lol: |
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