texas internet 0wn3z

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hey all

im in san antonio texas right now with my aunt for spring break

my god

the internet here is faster then T1 in illinois
and this is cable internet

just did a bandwith check
1.8 megabits persec
t1 is rated at 1.51

the average for texas was 1.91

this is outstanding
and since i might be moving here il have something to look foward too haha


how about you other texans... hows ur connections
and how do u like the area

[©opy®ight]

well i have DSL now and its rated 1.2 but i remember when ii had comcast cable and did a test it was 1.5....1.8 is nice...

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i have comcast at home now... i get 700k download on a good day...

[©opy®ight]

and whats the speed you download there in texas ?

[HTRegz]

Hey Hey,

I'm not sure... but 1.8 doesn't seem overly impressive to me..

I just ran a test on bandwidthplace.com and the results were

2.4 megabits per second
Communications 2.4 megabits per second
Storage 293.4 kilobytes per second
1MB file download 3.5 seconds
Subjective rating Great

I personally wasn't overly impressed with that..

When you get a 700K download at home.. if that's 700K on the IE or Firefox download bar that's 700KB not Kb... bytes... not bits..

So for comparison sake.. I just ran a test on dslreports

dslreports.com speed test result on 2006-04-10 01:42:43 EST:
1074 / 573
Your download speed : 1074 kbps or 134.2 KB/sec.
That is 69% worse than an average user on rogers.com

Your upload speed : 573 kbps or 71.7 KB/sec.
That is 9.7% better than an average user on rogers.com

As you can see the speed is much lower... nothing has changed except the server I'm testing against... I'm going to run a third before I post this.. (not that it matters to you... you'll see them all at once)

Another DSL Reports test using a different server

dslreports.com speed test result on 2006-04-10 01:45:01 EST:
802 / 564
Your download speed : 802 kbps or 100.3 KB/sec.
That is 76.8% worse than an average user on rogers.com

Your upload speed : 564 kbps or 70.5 KB/sec.
That is 8% better than an average user on rogers.com

CNet Bandwidth Test

1325.5 Kbps - You 1325.5 kbps

Next was PCPitStop which gave me great scores

Download Bandwidth Test Results
Download speed: 4743 kilobits per second

Test details: 3354 kilobytes downloaded in 5.657 seconds.
Receive buffer size: Not available

Toast.net

Loaded 754,928 bytes in 2.031 seconds from Open Hosting (UK) server.
2974kb

As you can see speeds can vary... My connection is supposed to be 5Mb/600Kb (I believe... the 5Mb is definately just not sure on the actual upload)

2-Wire
Speed Meter

Your bandwidth was clocked at
3.84 Mbps

And now to prove that speeds vary... I justdownloaded Defender Beta 2 from microsoft.com (since the download link was on the main page)... I hit over 2000KB/s (Yes that's bytes.. not bits)... with high speed it's all relative to the server you're accessing..

Peace
HT

[©opy®ight]

I was gonna say maybe he confused Megabits and Megabytes.....

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no the 700k is kilobits, i run the same test at home every now and then
i average 100k download speed in IE and FF... thats using the server HEAnet from sourceforge..
here i was getting 800k... highly impressive on my end

on my cable line at home you cant surf the web and use xbox live without noticing a difference

here... no lag at all... love it... absolutely love it...

[©opy®ight]

100k download with cable is realllyyyyy slow, when i had comcast it started out with 1000 kilobytes and slowed down to a steady 600.....

[zencoder]

A coworker in the Dallas area get's a Fibre line from Verizon to his house. Nothing special, no extra-uber isp account or anything, just one of their broadband packages. Something like 17Mb. F$cking unreal.

[Negative]

We have Comcast Cable here at 6Mbps (for $40 a month). The Verizon Fios (fiber) is nice, but the prices are way higher than cable ( http://www22.verizon.com/FiOSForHome...t/package.aspx )...
I don't think there's anything special about it... Other countries offer way higher speeds for way less money :/