in reply to Testing the connection to the net

You might want to look at Net::Ping for a quick and dirty test of connection speed.

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Re: Re: Testing the connection to the net
by repson (Chaplain) on Jan 09, 2001 at 19:05 UTC
    For a slightly better test you could try Net::Traceroute, so you can tell exactly whose fault it is.