Could I speed up my network usb adapter?

[fredand44]

Hello!

In my attempt to get a old computer to run a browser with flash... I still have not given up!

I thought that my last obsticle was my video card that only got 16MB RAM.
But now I'm not so sure.

It may be my network usb-adapter, since I tried out a laptop, also with wireless,  next to it, and the it loaded pages much much faster.

Is there a way to check the network speed for this computer, and if it is slower then my other computers is there a way to speed it up?

Best regards
Fredrik
 

[coreplayer2]

Without Flash or Java, I know of only this http://performance.toast.net/  which may not be representative of your connection speed but works well for comparing one pc against another

good luck

[Rich]

Hi fredand44
On the machine with the USB adapter, enter:

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nc -vv -l -p 5555 > /dev/nullOn a second machine enter:

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time nc -vv -w5 N.N.N.N 5555 < /dev/zeroReplace  N.N.N.N  with the IP address of the USB adapter. Wait 5 or 10 seconds and enter  Ctrl-c.
That will give you number of bytes sent and elapsed time.

[fredand44]

Hello guys!

Thanks for your fast replies!

Correct me if I'm wrong but withe the nc-command I need 2 or 3 machines with linux, right?
Right now I just got one.

How ever with the performance.toast.net I found out some new info.

With IE on my Win-XP 6 sec
With Opera 11 on my Tiny Core 3-4 sec
With Firefox 12 on my Tiny Core 15-22 sec

I did it several times and the I got the same result.

Could it be like firefox is the bottle neck?

Unfortenately I only managed to install flash with firefox.

So if any one think I should struggle to get it to work with opera, just let me know!

Best regards
Fredrik
 

[Rich]

Hi fredand44
Yes, you need two machines for nc. I tried that download test with Opera11 and got about 3.3 seconds
which correlates well with my 1Mbit/sec Internet connection.

[coreplayer2]

All I can say is the test from the link provides is consistent, although does not measure accurately above ~5Mbp's   for some reason underestimates my connection by 75%