I believe he's having hard time to go to the website via linux.
On windows you can just type
www.speedtest.net in a web browser and see results.
But also I dont have any idea to how to that on linux (ubuntu 7), so I'd pretty happy if someone would told me how to do it.
I've set up rates depending on our PC and approx. bandwith that ISP promised, but I do experience slight lags in-game (and it's not PC problem, it's damn powerful to hold holy crapload of servers)