Hello Lance, there exists a command iftop, which can give you an overview of all current connections running on an interface. If you have installed the ip2 package, you can do, while being connected: sudo iftop modem This will give you a list of open internet connections with there speed and at the bottom the max and average transfer rates. Compare those on different computers, and you should have an expression on the real speed. Modem transfer speeds vary very much with the quality of the phoneline. Second way of getting this information is: After the connection is closed issue: cat "ATI11" >/dev/modem cat /dev/modem This will print the information about the last connection. Hope this helps, Joern
