That site's definitely a fun data-collection toy. I've long had a sloppy, subjective impression that my little corner of the world had developed an Internet rush hour. It ain't a real stats sample, but a morning and afteroon check at this test site gives me numbers to back up my instincts:
That's a major download speed drop from earlier.
But I'm also only half-techy, and I have no real idea what the ping value means other than a guess it is related to 'latency' talk I see from online multiplayer gamers. Taking this thread as a psuedo-dataset, it's interesting to see no obvious correlation between download-upload rates and ping speed. Would differences in software firewall choices be a factor in ping speeds? I'm running Kaspersky behind a Linksys router.
