As part of the Covad blogger relations program, I’ve recently had a T1 line installed at my home. Of course, as soon as the line was installed, I’ve been on the road non-stop, traveling all over to various places, and I haven’t had a chance to spend any “quality time” with my new broadband connection.

 

I was going to forego the standard speed test, since Ken Camp and Phoneboy have already covered it here and here.

 

Still, I decided to do the bandwidth check myself using the Speakeasy Speed Test.

The T1 performed as expected, with 1,446 kbps down and 1,449 kbps up. That’s as close to1.5 MB as any reasonable person has a right to expect.

 

For comparison I decided to check out my Cablevision connection to see what I’d be missing. Either I’m the only one in my neighborhood who was online that evening, or Cablevision deserves some kind of award.

 

Over 10 megs down and 1.5 kbps up.

 

I certainly didn’t expect to have this kind of bandwidth using a shared connection that is cable, though I do feel a bit better about the 40 bucks a month knowing that I have a decent connection.

 

Once I get back from this next leg of my ongoing journey, I’ll baseline the two pipes again and see about testing a video conferencing app like Skype or Sightspeed.