I have updated the speed test a little bit. We have had some latency issues in the San Juans and we are working with our carrier to solve them. I thought I would provide a quick update on the speed test tool that is on the left hand side of the webpage. Please click on it and save the results- if you are having speed issues in our network then this gives us a great tool- Greg White(BBX Network Manager) just spent 3 days in Friday Harbor trying to get to the bottom of some qos issues with latency and streaming.

SPEED TESTS:

Send us an any results at info@bbxpress.net.

Here is the link to Speedtest.net. It is a great tool to use on any network. You can use it on your mobile broadband card. There is also a mobile app for the iphone. You will be shocked at the latency of the networks. Anyway here is the link:

speedtest.net

Here is what you should see from BroadbandXpress.

Typical Download: 2-4 megs(2,000-4000 kbps- dialup is 56 kbps). Up to 10 mbps in certain locations

Typical Upload: .2-2 megs(200-2000 kbps- dialup is 56 kbps). Up to 6 mbps in certain locations

Typical Ping: 40-70 milloseconds(passable for gaming or voip). This measures the time to send packets of information to the server. The longer the time- the worse packet sensitive appications will be such as voice over internet or gaming. This will not effect your regular downloading much.  Pings in the 30-50 range are typical for comcast business which is generally the fastest generally available service in Washington. Shaw Cable is generally the fastest in BC.

The bbx higher power solutions like the long range EZ connect modem or the networked boat will greatly improve the performance of these packet sensitive applications.

Latency in a packet-switched network is measured either one-way (the time from the source sending a packet to the destination receiving it),or round-trip (the one-way latency from source to destination plus the one-way latency from the destination back to the source). Round-trip latency is more often quoted,because it can be measured from a single point. Note that round trip latency excludes the amount of time that a destination system spends processing the packet. Many software platforms provide a service called ping that can be used to measure round-trip latency. Ping performs no packet processing; it merely sends a response back when it receives a packet (i.e. performs a no-op), thus it is a relatively accurate way of measuring latency.

Ping on Speedtest.net is a bit different than a traditional command-line ping which uses ICMP. We are measuring the time it takes to get a response for an HTTP
request sent to the server. The number will be higher than an ICMP ping,but the relative value to other tests is still very useful. The server you ping
the lowest to will usually be the server that provides the most accurate bandwidthmeasurement.