Checking Internet Speed

My internet provider ( telephone company ) has come to check my lack of internet service at times and says there is a problem in the line between my house and the town , he also went on-line with his computer and checked the current speed of it and he said it was only operating at half the speed. He used some web site to check the speed which I believe he said was in the United States ( Seattle )
... After he left I should have asked ...
When will the line be repaired , Is he coming back to check the speed afterwards ..OR .. Can I just check each day myself to see of the speed on the internet is at 1.5 - where it should be, compared to about 600 right now ..
So my question is .... Is there a web site I can use like he did to check my current speed to see if the line has been repaired and if so .. is it an easy check ?
Thanks much Eh ! ( Canadian )

If your ISP is AT&T, this is the site that the tech probably used.
AT&T DSL Speed Test
http://helpme.att.net/dsl/speedtest/
Another test site.
DSL Reports Speed Test
http://www.dslreports.com/speedtest
1.5Mbps is the max download DSL speed of your service. Typically, you will only get 1.1 - 1.3Mbps. Your upload speed will be about 135kbps.
 Cheers, Tom

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    A few things.
    This speed test tool gives you the results in both bits and bytes (bottom of the page) so you don't have to convert.
    http://speakeasy.net/speedtest/
    Second, the Airport channel probably won't have much effect unless your signal is really bad. The reason is that your local wireless connection has a much higher capacity than your modem connection. The local network is usually not the bottleneck, your connection to the Internet is.
    Also, my Airport base station has an "Automatic" option so that it picks the channel with the best signal. You could leave it on that.
    Finally, you can monitor network throughput in real time by using your Activity Monitor and clicking the Network tab. You'll see Data received/sec and Data sent/sec.

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