A Day Late

It took Qwest a little over a week to complete my DSL upgrade, but it looks like it’s done. I took a couple screenshots from DSL Reports of the before and after speed tests. If you’d rather not click on the images to see what the results were, here’s a summary:

Before upload speed: 217 kbps
Before download speed: 538 kbps

After upload speed: 846 kbps
After download speed: 1142 kbps

Not a bad increase at all. Esspecially on the upload speed. I noticed it right away. I have a nightly backup script that uploads the data files to an ftp server. After the script completes it sends me an email with a log of the backup process. Previously the email was getting sent about 43 minutes after the script started. After the DSL upgrade it’s getting sent 15 minutes after the script starts, so it’s about 3x as fast (the backup file is about 100 MB). The best thing is, it didn’t cost me a thing!

Before


After

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