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Started by 1984, Apr 17 2008 03:53 AM

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#1 OFFLINE   1984

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Posted 17 April 2008 - 03:53 AM

High all. I was just curious as to what kind of speeds everyone has on their internet. This is the results I got from a site I tried (http://www.speedtest.net/) :

Download: 5875 kb/s

Upload: 789 kb/s

Ping: 78 s

Distance: 750 mi

How is this considered in relation to everyone else? :)

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Posted 17 April 2008 - 06:32 AM

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Posted 17 April 2008 - 01:24 PM

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It would be nice if we could actually download and upload at these speeds, but sadly just about every server I've downloaded music and stuff from, has speeds no where near what my Speedtest results show.

Interesting nonetheless.
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Posted 17 April 2008 - 01:30 PM

Yeah, it stinks when you have killer cable speeds and the server you link to for a download is running a wopping 300 baud.

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Posted 17 April 2008 - 06:43 PM

View PostDennisD, on Apr 17 2008, 07:24 AM, said:

It would be nice if we could actually download and upload at these speeds, but sadly just about every server I've downloaded music and stuff from, has speeds no where near what my Speedtest results show.
Ditto! I always think of those tests with a whatever attitude, because the reality of our actual download/upload speeds differ from what they show. Also since we download from all over the world and not just the "closes server" things will never be the same.

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Posted 17 April 2008 - 08:38 PM

Mine sucked. Somewhere about 625kb's download and 160kb's upload. I need to get some money to increase the connection speed, dammit!
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Posted 17 April 2008 - 08:49 PM

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Posted 17 April 2008 - 10:01 PM

View PostSockdown, on Apr 17 2008, 02:38 PM, said:

Mine sucked. Somewhere about 625kb's download and 160kb's upload. I need to get some money to increase the connection speed, dammit!
I feel the exact same. Although Speedtest.net states I have 1976 kbps for downloading in reality it's only 159 kbps. Maybe what they're showing is something different, I don't know for sure. At least it's better than dial-up! :lol:
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Posted 17 April 2008 - 10:05 PM

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Posted 17 April 2008 - 10:40 PM

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Posted 18 April 2008 - 01:13 AM

View PostAndavari, on Apr 17 2008, 10:01 PM, said:

I feel the exact same. Although Speedtest.net states I have 1976 kbps for downloading in reality it's only 159 kbps. Maybe what they're showing is something different, I don't know for sure. At least it's better than dial-up! :lol:

lol! Yeah! I remember those days.
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Posted 18 April 2008 - 07:01 AM

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Posted 18 April 2008 - 09:22 AM

View PostAndavari, on Apr 17 2008, 06:01 PM, said:

I feel the exact same. Although Speedtest.net states I have 1976 kbps for downloading in reality it's only 159 kbps. Maybe what they're showing is something different, I don't know for sure. At least it's better than dial-up! :lol:
Yeah,I felt lucky to get 18-24 kbps on dial-up download.
Now that we are off the original cables used by Alexander G. Bell running from D.C to Baltimore for his first city to city demo,I am now on a LAN.Things are a little bit better now.
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Posted 18 April 2008 - 11:30 AM

Here are my results :huh:
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Speed Test says that I'm 50 Miles away? Wrong! I'm over 100 Miles away "230 Km" from the server that was used for the test.
The service that I pay for is: 1500 kb/s download & 256 kb/s upload.
I'm in a regional (country area) not in a "city" so taking that into consideration, I guess it's not a bad result.

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Posted 18 April 2008 - 12:02 PM

View PostSockdown, on Apr 17 2008, 08:38 PM, said:

Mine sucked. Somewhere about 625kb's download and 160kb's upload. I need to get some money to increase the connection speed, dammit!

I wouldn't worry about it at the moment. The speed you have is way above probably 99% of the sites I've come across. You can only download at the speed of the server, at the site you're downloading from.

You should be able to download streaming music and even movies with the speed you have.

Most of the places I've downloaded from have anywhere between 30-40kbps and 120-130kbps, and I've found a hell of a lot worse than that.

Sometimes if a site has a few mirror sites to download from, it's worth trying different ones. I always found this to be the case at somewhere like Major Geeks.

I've just had a try there now and the Texas link is about 10-12kbps, and the Australian mirror is 34kbps.

Until we start finding some fast servers, I don't think our Speedtest.net numbers mean a great deal.

This is just my experience of course. Anyone experienced better than that generally?
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Posted 18 April 2008 - 12:09 PM

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Posted 18 April 2008 - 12:52 PM

Mr Brownstone, I guess you must be hooked up to NASA :) :)

That a brilliant speed, how come?
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Posted 18 April 2008 - 02:25 PM

I want Mr. Brownstones speed.........

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Posted 18 April 2008 - 02:55 PM

View Posthazelnut, on Apr 18 2008, 01:52 PM, said:

Mr Brownstone, I guess you must be hooked up to NASA :) :)

That a brilliant speed, how come?

It is the fastest one available, so I went for it..and I am very happy with it too :)
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Posted 18 April 2008 - 04:31 PM

I envy your ISP guys. Most of your subscription gives megabits per second. We're still stuck with the "Oh 5x faster than dial up!"
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