View dial-up connection rate/speed?

Hello,
I know within Windows when using a dial-up connection, you're able to view the connected speed (Ie: 46.6kbps) by going into the connection status menu.
Under OS X, I can't seem to find this option? I've just moved house and am relegated to using a dial-up connection until my ADSL is connected. To save on phone calls, I've stopped the Macbook from going to sleep until I shut it down at night (to stop the modem hanging up) - I'm just wondering if there's a way to check what the approximate connected speed is? I've checked under System Profiler, but to no avail.
Regards,
Brayden

Activity Monitor shows peak speed above the graphic display of network activity. System Profiler (which is what you reach from About This Mac>More Info) shows IP numbers and DNS numbers and so on for my Airport connection but not speed (it does show the speed of the connection between the Mac and the Airport base station but that's no help): I can't test dial-up.
However there may well be third-party programs which will do this: I have Intego's NetBarrier which displays instantaneous speed, though it's hardly cheap: you could look round for something simpler (and cheaper).

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Since Friday evening we have been experiencing problems with our broadband connection. It's been disconnecting and when it is connected it is at a wide variety of speeds.
We found that we had noise on lifting the telephone receiver which was confirmed by doing the quiet line test. Tried connecting again by just using a filter into the test socket and directly into the hub but again we are finding the same issues with the broadband connection.
Thinking it might be a problem with our old hub we got the most recent model and have today tried connecting to broadband. As we were still getting the same problems (using our normal connection setup) we once again tried connecting straight into the test socket but still the problems remain.
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Connection Information
Line state:
Connected
Connection time:
0 days, 00:17:48
Downstream:
832 Kbps
Upstream:
352 Kbps
ADSL Settings
VPI/VCI:
0/38
Type:
PPPoA
Modulation:
G.992.1 Annex A
Latency type:
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16.5 dB / 6.0 dB
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Output power (Down/Up):
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Loss of Power (Local/Remote):
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6 / 0
Error Seconds (Local/Remote):
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Additional Information:
Your DSL Connection Rate :832 Kbps(DOWN-STREAM), 352 Kbps(UP-STREAM)
IP Profile for your line is - 135 Kbps
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Hi welcome to the forum
As you have noise on the phone line that needs to be resolved first you need to phone BT Faults on 151 and report a noisy line but do not mention broadband once the noise is fixed your broadband will improve
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Hi,
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Upstream:
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Modulation:
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When I first activated the broadband I had the filter plugged into the front (centre) socket on the master socket and the line was connecting at approx 1.5 Mb. About two weeks ago I plugged the filter directly into the test socket and I got the increased connection rate as detailed above. I left the router on and everything connected for about 10 days but had no improvement in line profile. Could it be that my connection rate is so marginal on activating the 1.5 Mb line profile that the equipment at the exchange isn't detecting the increased (well kind of!) speed?
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Hello,
around about the start of August 2011 my connection started to drop out frequently. Before this began to happen my connection had been around 2000kb to 2500kb since installation.
i have reported the fault twice and both times I have been informed that the issues has been fixed but i have recieved no change in my connection or the behavour of the line the home hub stats are as follows
ADSL Line Status
Connection Information
Line state:
Connected
Connection time:
0 days, 00:08:34
Downstream:
320 Kbps
Upstream:
448 Kbps
ADSL Settings
VPI/VCI:
0/38
Type:
PPPoA
Modulation:
G.992.1 Annex A
Latency type:
Interleaved
Noise margin (Down/Up):
8.8 dB / 17.0 dB
Line attenuation (Down/Up):
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Output power (Down/Up):
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FEC Events (Down/Up):
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CRC Events (Down/Up):
0 / 0
Loss of Framing (Local/Remote):
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Loss of Signal (Local/Remote):
0 / 0
Loss of Power (Local/Remote):
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HEC Events (Down/Up):
0 / 0
Error Seconds (Local/Remote):
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Download speedachieved during the test was - 222 Kbps
For your connection, the acceptable range of speeds is 50-250 Kbps.
Additional Information:
Your DSL Connection Rate :320 Kbps(DOWN-STREAM), 448 Kbps(UP-STREAM)
IP Profile for your line is - 250 Kbps
The results above are a good day with the connection often the connection rate is 100-150kb
I have only 1 telephone socket in my house which my home hub is connected to. i have also connected into the test socket with no change in the connection rate.
When I do a line check from my neighbours computer the results read that this issue is known to BT. also if I check my neighbours line from my computer it reports this issue is also known to BT.
My neighbour and i have the same issues with our broadband connection at the minute. So this just confirms to me that the issue is beyond our homes.
I am almost at the end of my teather with this issue as my internet is unseable most days
i hope someone can help me.
Chris

if bothe you and your neighbour are having the same problems then would appear to require an engineer. contact the mods for assistance http://bt.custhelp.com/app/contact_email/c/4951
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important to maintain its size and clarity. My client insists the
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connection. At the moment it stutters too badly on dial-up. Is this
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I wouldn't make my site based on the 56k user unless that is
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many 56k users want to sit for 5 minutes to see a crappy 30 second
video (quality not content).
You should re-encode those videos to play at a better rate
for broadband users, and maybe add extra buttons for dial-up users.
This way you have 2 flv's of the same movie, encoded at different
rates. If someone clicks on the 56k version, they get the choppy
low res junk file. Buffer it longer to make it play smoother. If
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