Thursday, January 21, 2010

Connectivity upgrade

Adam fulfilled his promise of running an ethernet cable into my office here at home, despite his certainty that it would not improve the experience on my machine. (I have a Mac, which he would like to believe is the root of all evils.) There was a small amount of squabbling during the process, but it got done eventually and some testing was then done to determine whether it would have any effect. You may ask, how can you tell? We went to speedtest.net, at which very well-named website you can test the speed of your connection to the internet. Here is the output of the test while connected wirelessly:



And here is the output of the test while connected via the new ethernet cable:



Adam was surprised, but convinced. :)
 

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