To answer mustang: I have a VDSL2 line and pay for 12mb speed thru Century Link.I did several speed tests immediately after the race ended,and then i waited 30 minutes did another and then 15 minutes did another,and 3o minutes did another .Speed guaranteed by Century Link is 9.6mb download. I got 11.4 once ,and 11.3 five times,and 11.2 once. Lowest Upload speed was 0.74.The highest upload was 0.81 and thats what it hit most often .I did a several tests including a test from my computer all the way outside and into the phone company's user access box that sits out in my alleyway(thats about 300 feet away ).That just bypasses my homes phone wiring to make sure its not faulty.
here's a webpage that is pretty handy that explains multiple types of tests and what they do.
http://commandwindows.com/tcpiputil.htm
here's a tracert to NHRL server 24.128.195.36
Tracing route to c-24-128-195-36.hsd1.vt.comcast.net [24.128.195.36]
over a maximum of 30 hops:
1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms 192.168.0.1
2 77 ms 24 ms 23 ms phnx-dsl-gw71.phnx.qwest.net [67.40.227.71]
3 23 ms 24 ms 24 ms phnx-agw1.inet.qwest.net [75.160.238.49]
4 34 ms 34 ms 34 ms lap-brdr-04.inet.qwest.net [67.14.22.158]
5 35 ms 35 ms 35 ms 63.146.26.146
6 89 ms 35 ms 35 ms if-2-2.tcore2.LVW-LosAngeles.as6453.net [66.110.
59.2]
7 39 ms 38 ms 36 ms 64.86.252.14
8 61 ms 63 ms 59 ms 68.86.89.213
9 92 ms 95 ms 96 ms he-0-6-0-0-cr01.denverqwest.co.ibone.comcast.net
[68.86.89.122]
10 87 ms 87 ms 88 ms he-3-12-0-0-cr01.denver.co.ibone.comcast.net [68
.86.89.33]
11 87 ms 84 ms 95 ms he-5-15-0-0-cr01.350ecermak.il.ibone.comcast.net
[68.86.85.113]
12 116 ms 119 ms 120 ms he-3-7-0-0-ar01.woburn.ma.boston.comcast.net [68
.86.90.6]
13 115 ms 115 ms 116 ms po-58-ur02.williston.vt.boston.comcast.net [68.8
5.162.125]
14 117 ms 117 ms 117 ms 68.87.154.166
15 * * * Request timed out.
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