hi!
I want to check different hosting providers and its servers speed. How I can do it ? One thing is testing the speed for a download of a web page, but another is to test the speed of the conection ?

regards,

There is not a way to tell what line speed they are running (well, you could setup several servers around the country and flood them with ping requests...but that might be frowned upon :)).

Your best bet is to use a tool like ServerCheck from NetMechanic.

This covers DNS, Network Connectivity, and Download Checks:

http://www.netmechanic.com/monitor.htm

I agree. They offer a free report service too.

why pay for that one when this one is free

http://www.qwkmon.com/index.php

Also why not do ping tests from this site using different servers across the US or other countries.

http://www.tracert.com/cgi-bin/ping.pl