Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.networking Date: 2000/01/14
> I'd like to know at what speed my modem is connected and what kind of
Then I ran kdevmon on the KDE desktop on the server so as to monitor the ppp0 connection. Instead of reporting just the connect speed it does a running computation of speed every so many millieconds and reports a top, current and average speed - which should give you an indiaction of what is going on with the dialup - speeds can drop and rise as the connection ages, get it at: http://apps.freshmeat.net/homepage/947602271/
Rootman
It's not a 100% accurate, but for conventional purposes, Microsoft has set up a page to track your throughput. Any browser should be able to be used to test your line speed. It's at: http://computingcentral.msn.com/topics/bandwidth/speedtest.asp
Peter Chung