"John R. Shannon" <john@johnrshannon.com> wrote:

> The best "speed test" will be an FTP site provided by your ISP. Because of 
> intermediate nodes along the network path you  will probably never see your 
> full link speed - even if the end point is a very fust, unloaded server.

Maybe their ftp site is throttled too.  
Is there any way I can tell (besides 
ask)?

In two tests, I got 2.72 and 2.62 Mbps  
from the ISP's ftp mirror site.  

Kindest regards, 

Tom