# Please try this experiment. It is inordinately impressive!

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [January 31, 2009, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-try-this-experiment-it-is-inordinately-impressive/483856 "2009-01-31T13:41:57Z")\
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**Author:** ![BarnOwl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e95f7d/32.png) [@BarnOwl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BarnOwl)\
**Post date:** [February 1, 2009, 10:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-try-this-experiment-it-is-inordinately-impressive/483856/21 "2009-02-01T10:04:21Z")

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> [@OpalCat](#):
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> Mine was kind of sad. ☹  
> [http://www.speedtest.net/result/401880111.png](http://www.speedtest.net/result/401880111.png)

But way, way better than mine. :(☹

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**Author:** ![BarnOwl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e95f7d/32.png) [@BarnOwl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BarnOwl)\
**Post date:** [February 1, 2009, 10:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-try-this-experiment-it-is-inordinately-impressive/483856/22 "2009-02-01T10:13:16Z")

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FWIW…

There seems to be a free download speedometer available to Opera browser users.

I futzed around with a bit Opera last night, Googled, found and saved the speedometer but can’t run it. Need winzip., it looks like.

Presumably it tells you how fast your each and every download is.  
[http://wareseeker.com/download/speedometer-1.0.rar/312263](http://wareseeker.com/download/speedometer-1.0.rar/312263)

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**Author:** ![interface2x](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c0e974/32.png) [@interface2x](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/interface2x)\
**Post date:** [February 1, 2009, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-try-this-experiment-it-is-inordinately-impressive/483856/23 "2009-02-01T17:29:36Z")

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[Not too bad at the moment](http://www.speedtest.net/result/402205439.png).

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**Author:** ![kushiel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/bbce88/32.png) [@kushiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kushiel)\
**Post date:** [February 2, 2009, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-try-this-experiment-it-is-inordinately-impressive/483856/24 "2009-02-02T02:23:52Z")

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[![](https://www.speedtest.net/result/402459091.png) ](https://www.speedtest.net/result/402459091.png)

I’m paying around $30 a month for this BS. Thing is, it doesn’t get much better around here…

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**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\
**Post date:** [February 2, 2009, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-try-this-experiment-it-is-inordinately-impressive/483856/25 "2009-02-02T02:46:22Z")

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Wildblue satellite connection ping tests at 898 ms. 🙂 The satellite is 30,000 miles away.

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