Debug your Internet

Working Internet connections are invisible. The fun starts when things are broken or somewhat broken. Then we wonder: is DHCP and NAT working, does the DNS do what it should, are all service ports open etc. Berkeley University's ICSI provides the Netalyzr tool to have a closer look at your connection. So make yourself familiar and run Netalyzr. The test results for my Starhub MaxOnline Express (16 GB in my dreams) were quite revealing:

So Starhub is meddling with the DNS, doesn't get Proxy right, filters content (mandated by the government for a handful internet sites), provides a slow DNS and needs a lesson on caching and buffering. I wonder how Singtel would fare.