bit torrent speed decifering

[mlbt]

when downloading a bit torrent program, it asks me for my speed, which i dont know.

i know as much about computers as jade goody does about diplomacy, can someone tell me how to do a speed test?

Every time i try to thru 'official' sites, i get spammed up, and blinded with science.

can anyone help get me up to speed?

[fo3nix]

http://www.speedtest.net

Let us know what speeds you get for upload and download (choose the London server).

[Llamatron]

In case anyones interested I managed 4016 down and 271 up.

God knows how as I rarely manage half that and P2P and BitTorrent are throttled down to even less.

Considering I'm supposed to be on 8meg even the 4 meg sucks.

Bl00dy Karoo.

[Mattk]

your connection is 'up to' 8 meg like mine.i am far away fro my exchange so also only average 4megs.

[Llamatron]

Yes I know precisely what they mean by up to 8 meg.
Still very annoying though.

[bimbim]

deciphering

[ugly_bob]

cooo. 6451 and 383. Can gaurantee my home one won't be as quick though.

mlbt you may be asked for speed in KB/s rather than kbps. If so, simply divide the kbps figure by 8.
ie, mine would be 806 and 48 KB/s