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	<title>DigitalOutbox &#187; Briadband Speed Test</title>
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		<title>StreetStats &#8211; Broadband speed checker +</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 10:07:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Picks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Briadband Speed Test]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[For my pick this week, I'm choosing a broadband speed checker. This doesn't exactly sound that interesting - but this speed checker comes with a twist - and a good one at that!]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>For my pick this week, I&#8217;m choosing a broadband speed checker. This doesn&#8217;t exactly sound that interesting &#8211; but this speed checker comes with a twist &#8211; and a good one at that!</p>
<p><a  href="http://www.top10-broadband.co.uk/speedtest/">http://www.top10-broadband.co.uk/speedtest/</a></p>
<p><a  href="http://www.digitaloutbox.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/speedcheck.png" class="thickbox no_icon" rel="gallery-452" title="speedcheck"><img class="size-full wp-image-453 alignnone" title="speedcheck" src="http://www.digitaloutbox.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/speedcheck.png" alt="speedcheck" width="350" height="224" /></a></p>
<p><a  href="http://www.digitaloutbox.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/speedcheck.png"></a>The pretense being that you carry out your speed test as normal (you know the drill &#8211; watch a rev counter representation of your download and upload speed and get a result that your mildly disappointed with.)</p>
<p><img class="size-medium wp-image-454 alignnone" title="results" src="http://www.digitaloutbox.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/results-500x451.png" alt="results" width="500" height="451" /></p>
<p>But there&#8217;s an additional step with this checker, that being you can geotag your result with your postcode it is added to an ever growing map of all users speed results.</p>
<p>Been fobbed off about your download speed based on distance to the exchange? Well now you&#8217;ve got the tools to confirm this or repute it. If you&#8217;re only getting 2Mbs download but your neighbors ares getting 8Mbs then you know somethings amiss.</p>
<p>The information is all integrated into a Google Maps application on the website</p>
<p><a href="http://www.digitaloutbox.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/streetresults.png"><img class="size-medium wp-image-455 alignnone" title="streetresults" src="http://www.digitaloutbox.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/streetresults-500x380.png" alt="streetresults" width="500" height="380" /></a></p>
<p><a  href="http://www.digitaloutbox.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/streetresults.png"></a>You can move around, zoom in and out, look at different areas. Each result is presented with the provider and you can chose to display upload or download speeds. Perhaps a great tool if you&#8217;re looking to move into an area? If you want more information on a result, this is also possible by just clicking the result.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.digitaloutbox.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/streetresultsdetail.png"><img class="size-full wp-image-456 alignnone" title="streetresultsdetail" src="http://www.digitaloutbox.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/streetresultsdetail.png" alt="streetresultsdetail" width="344" height="286" /></a></p>
<p>With all this data, they have also put together some nice graphs of provider speed trends over time. Not just for standard Broadband but also mobile/3g broadband as well.</p>
<p><a  href="http://www.digitaloutbox.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/bbspeeds.png" class="thickbox no_icon" rel="gallery-452" title="bbspeeds"><img class="size-medium wp-image-457 alignnone" title="bbspeeds" src="http://www.digitaloutbox.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/bbspeeds-499x299.png" alt="bbspeeds" width="499" height="299" /></a></p>
<p><a  href="http://www.digitaloutbox.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/3gspeeds.png" class="thickbox no_icon" rel="gallery-452" title="3gspeeds"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-458" title="3gspeeds" src="http://www.digitaloutbox.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/3gspeeds-499x297.png" alt="3gspeeds" width="499" height="297" /></a></p>
<p>Nothing revolutionary about these graphs or speed tests but the website presents the information well and the geo-tagging of data and the fantastic mapping tools offered by Google have produced another great mashup.</p>
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