Internet Speed Test - how fast is my internet connection?

Copying the info below from a informal speed test that I performed from my previous post: Why does facebook run so slow?

As for internet speed.Using http://www.Speedtest.net, the global broadband speed test,My server for the test is hosted by Tunghai University www.thu.edu.tw My ISP is CHTD - Chunghwa Telecom. My distance to server performing this test is about 100 miles.The results are 9.48MB/s download and 1.88 MB/s upload. Ping is 33ms (I'm not sure what that means)

On my second test: I got 9.43 MBPS for download and 1.88 MBPS for upload.If I shift my server that tests the speed to Hong Kong, I get 9.44 MBPS for download and 1.66 MBPS for upload.This is just to show the speed at which that I'm connected.

Now for a really cool test, I'm going to test the connection with San Francisco (Near Modesto, CA where I live in the USA - I'm currently in Taipei, Taiwan)I get a download speed of 7.71 MBPS and an upload speed of 1.74 MBPS. Not too shabby!

Using: http://us.mcafee.com/root/speedometer/test_1500.asp

I get a result of over 2 MBPS. I guess this wasn't configured to run any faster than that.


Then I tried http://www.bandwidthplace.com/ - it just froze with my vista computer system and I tried it again, and couldn't get it to work.

Next test: http://www.speakeasy.net/speedtest/
It was nice, it told me that my IP address was: 114.45.184.149

I picked San Francisco as a server to perform the test from: it gave me these results:
7311 kbps download / 1831 kbps upload - a little slower than the similar setup from speedtest.net, but for all purposes the same results.

For even more fun, I decided to remote desktop into my server in Modesto, CA and test out the speed there.

Using http://www.Speedtest.net:

It identified my server as coming from the California area, because on this website it automatically shifts a map to where you are located. They recommended trying San Jose as the testing server site. I'm not entirely sure what happens if I used remote desktop and then perform the test. This might skew the speed results somehow. But maybe not if the speed test report right back to the actual computer that I was controlling. As I'm doing the test from Taipei, Taiwan, it was a bit painfully slow to watch - I even thought "great, I crashed my computer." But it's actually wiggling a bit on the graphics right now as I type this... So I take this to be a good sign. Well, the results aren't that good:

I got Download internet speed of 0.30 mbps
and Upload internet speed of 0.09 mbps
Ping of 42 ms.

I think the results are skewed by the remote desktop connection.

It was worth a try anyway - for fun. Things to do while avoiding the typhoon in Taiwan.

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Twitter for Plastic Surgery Modesto - Surgical Artistry, Inc

T. Tammy Wu, MD and Calvin Lee, MD have announced today their twitter account for their plastic surgery modesto practice:

http://twitter.com/wplasticsurgery

We're still new to Twitter and social media so bear with us.

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My clarisonic - we only brought one

Well, so much for my thinking in advance; we only brought one of these and two brushes. We've been sharing it. It saves space this way. The only problem is that ok.. right now we are both in Taipei, but I have to make a separate trip (subcursive?) to Hong Kong and Macau - I'll be gone and separated from my wife for a week. So that means - we have to fight over the clarisonic. This just hit me.

Clarisonic brush is a mechanized facial cleansing brush - waterproof, fun, efficient, and produces results. I feel lost without it. It's one of my favorite products which we carry in our office. It even showed an increase in my Visia score. I scored very low on the Visia to begin with, so that might not be saying much (I got 2%).

Clarisonic Modesto - this link has a list of our products in our office. Too bad I can't just run across to the globe to get another one.

Anyway... enough blabbing.. I'll figure out how to revert to the old way of washing my face. Can't take the Clarisonic away from the plastic surgeon wife: [T. Tammy Wu, MD]

Disclaimer: This website is not intended to create a physician patient relationship. There is no specific targeted medical advice here. Please see your physician in person. This disclaimer also applies to our other websites with generalized information: Plastic Surgery Modesto CA, Plastic Surgery Modesto, Cosmetic Surgery, Acupuncture Modesto, Veins Modesto, How to Choose a Plastic Surgeon, Breast Augmentation Modesto, Breast Augmentation FAQ, Tummy Tuck FAQ, Botox in Modesto. The pictures above are not our actual patients.

New glasses! from Taipei - VP coat too!

I'm in the process of getting new glasses. I'm in Taipei, Taiwn. I normally live in Modesto, CA, USA (Home to the Modesto Symphony, Gallo Center for the Arts, Plastic Surgery Modesto, and McHenry Medical Group). I'll go into more detail (if anyone is interested) of what glasses I'm getting.

The lens itself sounds pretty cool. The salesperson/manager of the optics shop told me that I can get thinner lens from Taiwan than in the US. It's going to have a VP coat. This is new and exciting to me.

So this is what I've learned.

VP Coat stands for View Protect

• The VP Coating optimizes visual performance and comfort (through mechanisms described below)
• Water Repellant: ahh... can walk in the rain!
• Does not mist over with condensation (fog up)
• Oil repellent (fingerprints!)
• Low electrostatic load (less dust attraction/static)
• Can be cleaned with acetone and alcohol.
• Drawbacks: Don't let the glasses heat up greater than 40 degrees celcius. Otherwise there would be degradation of the VP coating.

Obagi video now on YouTube.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFK7aTRELHE link to an Obagi video that was uploaded and placed a link to our Modesto Plastic Surgery page. Obagi is sometimes spelled wrong as Obaji, or Obajii, or Obagy, or Obajy or even Obagy.... you can think of all sorts of spelling variants for this. We have Obagi products in our office (Tammy Wu, Plastic Surgery).

I don't think Obagi would mind that I put this patient DVD online. It's great advertising for them.

Updated http://www.surgical-artistry-modesto.com/

Plastic Surgery Modesto is the website address is: http://www.surgical-artistry-modesto.com/

Started updating this. This is a landmark process for me. It was the first time I've used an FTP program and Front Page on my this computer and also from a Taiwan internet location.

The updates made:

• Has info about us being on vacation or "out of the country" as our staff likes to say. All true, we are on vacation and we are out of the country, but my thoughts about the office are never far away.
• I wrote that our staff is still in the office if there any scheduling or skin care needs.
• I added some plastic surgery resources with links to many ASPS resources. (ASPS is the American Society of Plastic Surgeons)
• And I added logos and links for organizations that we currently support or have supported in the past. Many of these organizations include education organizations that we have been with or musical organizations. Such as the Friends of Music who puts helps us put on the show - "Docs Play the Pops" every year as a fundraiser.

Some new updates to be made would be to put on perhaps some links to modesto resources as well.

Otherwise, that's it for now.