In Regards to Basschick's Hosting thread...

[abostonboy]

How do I test my server connection with other parts of the world and US?

[basschick]

you could start a speed test thread here - have board members download a file big enough for them to get it up to speed. then they can tell you where they are, how fast it came in and whether that is fast, slow or average for them.

or you can use an online traceroute and ping sites like
http://www.geektools.com/traceroute.php
http://ping.eu/
http://www.traceroute.org/

[Gaystoryman]

Alerta Website Monitoring (http://alertra.com/spotcheck.php) will check your website load time from various locations around the world, and hey, it is FREE.

Well the spotcheck is free, I think there is a more advanced paid for option, or something, never bothered to read beyond the free part whistle

[HunkMoneyLuke]

That Alerta is a nice site, simple and fast and to the point. I just tested a few of our domains and was very happy with what I saw too. Thanks for that link :)