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Just wondering how fast everyone downloads at on their connection, and if you're satisfied with it (for what you pay) or if you think it is supposed to be faster. I recently did a bandwidth test on www.bandwidthplace.com/speedtest and it came out a bit better than I thought it would have. I attached my pics... you guys should post yours too. :)
And here's a pic of the comparison of mine to others in my area. I have no idea what's going on, but I'm happy about it, hehe.
I would post a pic, but I'm downloading a large file right now, and my results would not be accurate.
Dude I'm F***ing jealous. your almost hitting 5 mega bits, I only get 1/2 of a megabit A.K.A 512kbps. lol
Damn I want a faster connection.
When I download, I download at 52KB. I pay $40 a month for this. I think that I should at least get 1.5mb for speed, but thats the only high speed internet available here. lol
Here are my results:
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I have a cable modem and my provider is Roadrunner. I'm not sure what I pay, my dad pays the bills. I would guess anywhere from $29.99 to $49.99. We also have the Time Warner digital cable. I'm happy with my connection though. I find that I'm mostly limited by the host I'm downloading from not my connection.
Thats it.
I'm moving to somewhere else.
The worst part about this whole thing is when I had the Phone people over here working on my connection (there was a problem with their servers dropping my connection) they were talking about how they set up test connections at 8 and 9 Mbps. I tried to talk them into just giving me another 512kbps but they wouldn't do it. lol
What do you ppl feed your connections with? steroids? =\
I can only top a flippin 89kb per second...
I envy you. I pay 29€ a month for my adsl. Someone give a better one? :P
lol
I wonder how much that converts to in American Money ?
cheyenne: lol, they had some commercials on tv the other day and was like "we're not 50% faster!" and I was like yeh whatever. So that's when I went to check and they really are a lot faster than usual. I actually hit a little higher speed than what I posted, but right now I've got some torrents downloading so it messed it up, but not by much at all (around 100 kbps or so). I'm paying 45/month... you should call them and complain man!
h3r3tic: Not bad at all. What kind of connection are you on, and how much do you pay? Let's evolve this thread into that, too, to see who has good turnaround for their money in the world. :)
I would easily pay $45 a month for that kind of speed. I mean 512kbps is ok, but when I'm downloading a 600MB file like I am right now, I could really use that extra speed. lol
lol, yeah. I got a 650 this morning in 25.5 minutes, and I swear it was better than watching porn. :-p
hey.. I get around 6k/sec.. not bad for this poor dialup user.. hehe..
I'm gonna move next door to Jehnny.. you'll share your connection, right Jehnny ?
lol, definitely. Come on over. I'll put ya on my WLAN, hehe. :-D
And nah, that's not bad at all for dialup. I never would've dreamed of that speed on dialup.
ok.. great.. just kick out those scumbuckets that live next door for me.. ok ?
I'm warming up my private jet .. I'll be there in.. uhhh.. 4 hrs ?
I'm coming to man.
I just downloaded 541MB in 3 hours and 7 minutes.
That just makes me sick to know that I could of had it in 20 minutes.
MAN
I AM MAD NOW!!!!!:fpissed:
AHHHHHHHHHHHH
I think i'm gonna go blow up now.
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jenjen: do you need a pilot for your jet. I'm a pilot, and I'm qualified in a Piper Cheyenne II
do i need a pilot ? sure cheyenne.. we'll just need to get you trained on learjets.. :D
flying a prop is just a bit too slow ;) when jenjen is on the move.. she needs fast transportation.
and my startrek transporter is on the blink.. I think I need a new dilythium crystal..
Well the piper cheyenne will cruise at 250mph :D
OK, here is mine. Not bad for a Pay WIFI service, at various hotspots around the contry. ($99.95 per year)
Speed
2.4 megabits per second
Communications 2.4 megabits per second
Storage 290.3 kilobytes per second
1MB file download 3.5 seconds
Subjective rating Great
I dunno I am downloading 14 songs right now so this might be off just tad.
Yea me 2Quote:
Originally posted here by jenjen
ok.. great.. just kick out those scumbuckets that live next door for me.. ok ?
I'm warming up my private jet .. I'll be there in.. uhhh.. 4 hrs ?
Interesting?
I get 318.5Kbps from your site, but when I go to the McAfee site I get b165.5Kbps....I also noted a 56.6 link at 6......should be nearer 4 I would have thought?
My provider says 576000...................I think that I shall have "a word" with them in the morning :D
Thanks for the heads up
Here is what I got from the speed test at www.satx.rr.com:
Mine shows 1.5 megabits. So, I'm supposed to download a megabyte in 10 seconds or something like that.
On cable.
On my 56k connection nihill, I get close to 6 sometimes. I'll hit 5.3-5.5KB on a download.
47.2 Kilobytes/sec. Not bad for dial-up.
Although right now I have a brand new laptop, with almost no extraneous stuff to clog bandwith.
edit: Ok Cheyenne, Kilobits. I haven't slept in 3 days and I'm starting to get confused. I think I'm going to download some sleep tonight. at 47.2 kilobits/sec. lol.
I think you meant 47.2 Kilobits/sec
When we download, we measure in bytes. When we want to see our connection speed, its shown as bits, (makes it look bigger. lol)
So you would download at 4.7 Kilobytes.
just wanted to clear that up.
I get about 1.2mbits ps
cable connection
$30.00 a month
not to bad for Tucson
Here's mine, supposed to be a 2 megabit connection, but I don't see it all that often. Not complaining though:
Thats not bad at all.
As a matter of fact thats real good. lol
Hehe, yeah, I gotta agree. Nothing to complain about there, FrameWork. :)
I'm doing better than the average for my area. I sometimes see speeds like 1.7 megabits, but this result is more the norm for me. My ISP advertises 1.5 Mbs, though.
I'm a bit of a speed freak, all my cables and phone wiores I custom cut to fit exactly where I needed them. The DSL modem is 2 feet from the demarcation point, and the patch cord to the router is 3 inches long. I rewired every phone jack in the house after getting DSL to cut down on extra wires. I think I ripped out about 200 feet of telephone wires that accumulated over the years and are no longer used.
That project was a learning project, too. It took like a week to do but it worked pretty well. I nearly doubled my speed by cleaning up the wiring mess.
I'm paying about $45 CDN for this, I thing that works out to between $30 and $35 American. Looks like I'm not getting too bad a deal here.
Hrm... In Japan I had my Juicy 12mbit dl / 1mbit up ADSL connection... About a month after I got that they introduced 26mbit dl / 1mbit up. No I hear they have a 40mbit dl and 1mbit up. Man, living in Japan (Okinawa) was nice. Okinawa is connected to mainland Japan with some MAJOR fiber. I forgot exactly, but OC-192 (10gbit/s) if I remembered correctly...? :)
But now I'm in the United States, in Idaho. The University here has a 2gbit connection, so there is a bit running through here, and I got Wireless Internet since it rocks the butt off of everything else offered here. Not as nice as 12mbit down, but I do get more symetric speeds now! Usually around 4mbit up and down. BTW, this test I got lower than normal speeds. Check: http://www.dslreports.com/archive/fsr.net?s=3719&r=56 for my other tests
Service: Wireless (802.11)
Equipment: $250 + $250 extra equipment
Service: $500 a year or $55 month
Total this year: $1,000
Striek: That is some crazy stuff you do to squeeze the speed out of the line. While I was in Okinawa I had no problems pulling in up to about 8mbit/sec, though I had multiple TCP/IP sessions going on. It is impossible to get over 300kb/s between Japan and the US with the TCP/IP protocol simply because light doesn't travel fast enough to cut down latency enough. And this was coming out of 2 wires that were of dubious quality coming into the house and getting phone calls over those same 2 wires while downloading...
Hey Hey....
Nothing I've had here in London, ON compares to what I had back home.. I had a 7.5-8Mbps connection, it was rather nice. Cable designed for a customer base of 10 times the size of the city is rather fast :).
Anyways I'm on 3mbps DSL now.. I went to the RoadRunner site that was posted earlier and got
and from http://chi.speakeasy.net (who I normally use) I getQuote:
Your line speed:
2995.6 Kbps
367.1 K bytes/sec
I pay 59.95 CDN a month for this service. We also got a free wireless B linksys router for signing up and we get 8 IP addresses.Quote:
2003-11-24 03:09:47 EST: 2927 / 563
Your download speed : 2927017 bps, or 2927 kbps.
A 357.3 KB/sec transfer rate.
Your upload speed : 563591 bps, or 563 kbps.
Seems like broadband .. above the 1mbit barrier!
thats me :)Quote:
2003-11-24 08:28:50 EST: 3110 / 80
Your download speed : 3110262 bps, or 3110 kbps.
A 379.6 KB/sec transfer rate.
Your upload speed : 80637 bps, or 80 kbps.
Seems like broadband .. above the 1mbit barrier!
359.1 kilobits per second
Communications 359.1 kilobits per second
Storage 43.8 kilobytes per second
1MB file download 23.4 seconds
ADSL - not as good as I want (was going to get a 2mb line but no cable in my area :( - next yr tho)
v_Ln
I have two options in my area, DSL or Cable. Now I would of gotten cable, as they offer 1mb, but since we were getting this at a business, we couldn't do this. They wanted us to Order tv channels to. lol So we went with the 512/256 Adsl from our telephone company. And thats all we have. No fast 3mb or 5mb connections. The only way you could get that was if you worked for the phone company, and tapped into there throughput. lol
I think I want to move to Japan now. :D
I keep on getting an error that says I have reached the "test per ip limit" and I have never done this test yet. I tryed it yesterday and it said the same thing and I thought that my ip would have changed by now but I guess it hasn't. BTW cheyanne: you're cable connection speed depends on how many people are using cable in you're area, because cable is not a dedicated line.
Heres mine...
Problem is most big download sites put a bandwidth cap on how fast you can download.
2003-11-24 11:59:14 EST: 1276 / 163
Your download speed : 1276275 bps, or 1276 kbps.
A 155.7 KB/sec transfer rate.
Your upload speed : 163365 bps, or 163 kbps.
Seems like broadband .. above the 1mbit barrier!