Thanks for the link. It did give me a good result (1.1 megabits/sec.), but about 10% below the average for Quebec. But I got some problems later, here are the results of my tests:

ping www.google.ca

Pinging www.google.akadns.net [216.239.39.147] with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 216.239.39.147: bytes=32 time=34ms TTL=245
Reply from 216.239.39.147: bytes=32 time=34ms TTL=245
Reply from 216.239.39.147: bytes=32 time=33ms TTL=245
Reply from 216.239.39.147: bytes=32 time=35ms TTL=245

Ping statistics for 216.239.39.147:
    Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
    Minimum = 33ms, Maximum = 35ms, Average = 34ms

tracert www.google.ca

Tracing route to www.google.akadns.net [216.239.39.104]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

  1     *        *        *     Request timed out.
  2     *        *        *     Request timed out.
  3     *        *        *     Request timed out.
  4     *        *        *     Request timed out.
  5     *        *        *     Request timed out.
  6     *        *        *     Request timed out.
  7     *        *        *     Request timed out.
  8     *        *        *     Request timed out.
  9     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 10     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 11     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 12    34 ms    32 ms    29 ms  216.239.39.104

Trace complete.

icheckconnection www.google.ca (utility found on PC Pitstop site)

PC Pitstop Connection Checker 1.2
Copyright (c) 2004 PC Pitstop LLC. All rights reserved.
DNS is working
Ping www.google.ca (216.239.39.147) 32 bytes    34 35 36 35 *
Trace route to www.google.ca
1 (0.0.0.0) 32 bytes    * * * * *
Hop 1 doesn't respond, giving up

>do a search on Google for "adsl connection test", there are some sites that offer online bandwidth tests.
>
>I tried this one :
>http://bandwidthplace.com/speedtest/