Post your latest connection speed...
...according to Speedtest.net. I just thought it might be fun.
I don't have the foggiest what it means but here it is (as you know I'm at work)
Here's Mine
I don't have the foggiest what it means but here it is (as you know I'm at work)
Well, it looks like your upload speed is actually faster than your download speed...very unusual.
Verizon FIOS ftw
Well, it looks like your upload speed is actually faster than your download speed...very unusual.
She's at a University which probably has a circuit with the same speeds up and down, and the kiddies are using the download side for their movies and music and pr0n.
Verizon FIOS ftw
Impressive. :)
I want FIOS, but they don't have it here yet dammit.
UT, do you have the Verizon Fios TV service as well?
I don't know what it means, but I would like a prize, please.
I do have the FIOS TV. Signal quality is excellent in both standard and HD. It required that they give me a free wireless router. Installation was a bitch though, and showed that they don't completely have their act together.
The set-top box is meh OK. Their onscreen program guides are excellent. The remote is pretty good. The DVR in it is just OK, clearly not a Tivo. On Demand is broken and I haven't called them to fix it yet, partly because the teenager living here part-time will cause me to go broke once it's live.
. . . the teenager living here part-time will cause me to go broke once it's live.
haha... they don't have a spending limit you can set?
They are supposed to have Fios here within the year. The Internet is a no-brainer. We'll have to see about the TV. We've been very happy with DirecTV, but I'm willing to consider the Fios. On the other hand, we'd have to give up our Tivo. And the purchase of an HS set is not in the cards for the near future, so it's hard to imagine any possible Fios advantage other than price.
I would love to be this anal:D
Well they have a new HD Tivo, which can be outfitted with "cable cards" which allow the Tivo to act as the system's set-top box. With two cable cards the Tivo can finally record something different than you're watching. So it's like a Tivo-plus, but I don't think it works with On Demand. The bigger problem is that it's more money more money, right at a time when you're converting to HD and already have to dump out a big load of money.
this is from my laptop over a WAN. jinx is 3 feet away.....better laptop?
Something wrong with Time warner tonite. Usually 10mbps, but for some reason, 256kbs SUX.
Wow - Verizon DSL blows!
Monsters watching video on the other (faster) computer maybe that sucking some.
EDIT: meh, download stayed the same, upload went up a bit
Monsters watching video on the other (faster) computer maybe that sucking some.
Nerd. [COLOR="LemonChiffon"]('s the only sucking I'll be doing tonight..... :p)[/COLOR]
My latest:
bleh. I should consider upgrading my DSL to FIOS.
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Ehh, who really needs that much speed?
Ehh, who really needs that much speed?
Someone who can afford it. :D
Don't ca just love how they sell you the theoretical speeds? Thanks FCC and the best money can buy.
Don't know why I retested, but tee hee.
It's faster.
Time warner still shows me at 250kbs. mut be their host.
I'm at work now, and it's 14 times faster than my home DSL connection.
Now it's lunch time, and presumably, many of my cow orkers are surfing.
...according to Speedtest.net. I just thought it might be fun.
My latest:
Certainly a consistent service.
What will it be next? We could have a pool.
I'm going for 1091 and 208. Any other takers?
What will it be next?
Ask, and ye shalleth recieveth-eth...eth. :)
I assume everyone is testing using the recommended server, as opposed to something a distance away from their location?
Recommended server (New York in my case)
(note: This is actually damned close to the advertised speed I'm signed up for, 3.0/768. In fact it's proabbly as close as you'll get in the real world.)
The farthest away I could get--Vancouver:
Speaking of bandwidth, do any of you work for a provider? I'm in the market for some a few T1 lines at work.
On UMinn campus -- gotta say that .edu bandwidth rocks!
Bigger is only better if you know what to do with it...
Next guess for Drax' speed.....
1089 and 208.
Any other players?
Sorry mon; couldn't get that exact result, but lookie my download speed from across the world:
:cool: I thought fer sure it'd be 0/0.
What the hell? Verizon dsl is lame tonight.
It says Level 3... did you grab onto somebody else's wireless by accident?
What the hell? Verizon dsl is lame tonight.
Your speed is a function of a chain that includes your computer, computer's ethernet or WiFi interface, router, other 'neighborhood' users, DSL/cable signal strength, DSLAM, etc. With numbers that low, then I would looking at each chain link; suspect some serious hardware failures exist.
Those numbers mean little to nothing without first knowing a maximum theoretical speed numbers. A DSL rated to download 768,000 bits per second and measuring 70,000 bytes per second is far superior to cable rated at 4,000,000 bps and only operating at 130,000 bytes.
One important number found in the modem (interface between your network and the fiber, coax, DSL wire) is its signal to noise ratio. For DSL, this should be somewhere around 20 dB. Cable companies do not let you see this critical number. What could explain those low download and upload numbers? Signal strength or S/N ratios at 10 or lower.
Same also applies to WiFi signal strength. If approaching -80 dB, then that WiFi signal (not the ISP hardware) is reason for low data transfer numbers.
When the upload speed is higher than a download speed and upload speeds are close to a theoretical maximum, then another good suspect is multiple users downloading large files or broadcasts.
These numbers are often a first symptom of a hardware problem even when the numbers don't always stay that low.
One more...it's pretty consistent:
It says Level 3... did you grab onto somebody else's wireless by accident?
Yeah, well, I said Verizon, but our dsl is actually provided to us through CTI Networks, who I think re-sells the Verizon dsl service. We went with CTI years ago when we had a Mac, and Verizon told us they wouldn't support a Mac. Their DSL modems only worked with PCs. CTI would give us an actual router, so we went with them instead. Now that we have a PC, we're staying with CTI due primarily to inertia.
Can't be the neighbor's signal either because we use Ethernet cables, not WiFi.
Your speed is a function of a chain that includes your computer, computer's ethernet or WiFi interface, router, other 'neighborhood' users, DSL/cable signal strength, DSLAM, etc. With numbers that low, then I would looking at each chain link; suspect some serious hardware failures exist.
Well, the download speed was one tenth what it normally is, and the upload speed was about normal. Our setup hasn't changed, although I did run Windows update the day before, and I also installed the new version of the Avast antivirus software. I'm assuming that it's the ISP's fault and that everything will be fine when I try it tonight.
New U-verse bundle, 3Mbps down/1Mbps up & saving $100 per month by dropping DirectTV.
Well thank Fucck somebody revived this thread. Whatever happened to Drax, anyway?
I think he occasionally visits as Datalyss.
Yah. He posts in the kitty thread a lot.
I think he occasionally visits as Datalyss.
Yah. He posts in the kitty thread a lot.
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LOVE my FIOS. This isn't even the fastest they offer. Such an improvement over my old DSL and is the same price.
bleh. I should consider upgrading my DSL to FIOS.
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What the hell? Verizon dsl is lame tonight.
Wheeeee new FIOS bundle kickass
Told Comcast door-to-door sales guy to fuck off!
Pretty cool site! Pretty cool speed. I thought mine was fast yet compared to yours....your pc should be toast.
my d/l 17.93
u/l 5.28
This is KC to Chicago. KC to Wichita was less than half this result, with five times the latency. Go figure.
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this over a WAN
it's fast enough.
It wouldn't work to Philly (hosted by Comcast).:eyebrow:
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Just playing with my phone.
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Today:
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Back just before Christmas we got a postcard from ATT thanking us for always paying our bill on time. As a token they would be giving us the next fastest broadband speed at no additional charge, for a year.
Sweet. Not. Still slower than 87% of the country. And getting slower.
I suppose eleven a.m. on a Saturday probably isn't the best time to test download speeds.
Digr, your Sept 2009 entry is glatt's right above you?
[Red Foreman] Son of a bitch!! [/Red Foreman]
That appears to be the case.
I shoulda known I never got no 3.28 megathingies/sec.
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Good catch, thanks Toadman.
Yabbut your speed actually did get a little tiny bit higher over the last time!!
And you saved 2ms of ping time!!
Unrequested and for free, even.
It's 4 AM and I can't sleep because of the long flight and time adjustment from the trip back from Hawaii.
I have no idea if this is good or not but I have no complaints about our service which is via cable.
0.688 Mb/s. A little more shite than usual ...
Mind you this is a "good" day.
and a few minutes later
I got y'all beat!
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Lollers, you had the thread record... for 12 minutes.
FIOS always wins the up side. (But that's the part that really doesn't matter.)
Feck!
Sent by thought transference
Tonight. Friday at 11 pm seems to be busy.
Feck!
Sent by thought transference
wss
Verizon Wireless 4G with WiFi turned off
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Britain's future broadband speeds, allegedly.
What we can't understand is that if "10 million premises to receive speeds of between 300-500Mbps by end of 2020, with 1Gbps also provided" in the UK, and therefore websites will upgrade to match, how on earth is "a new universal minimum broadband speed of 5-10Mbps" going to be adequate. We are already effectively going backwards as websites adapt to faster speeds up to 60mbps and ours in rural Britain stagnate at less than 1mbps.
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Funny how unbalanced the two speeds are. My upload speed at home is slightly faster than it was for that test at work. But work is 4 times faster than home for downloads.
I meant new DOWN record!
Guh!
FIOS offers the same UP and DOWN and they make it a marketing thing, but it's really only the DOWN you're interested in cos who is uploading stuff?
It's funny, because at work, we upload stuff all the time. Electronic filings at courts. The file size of exhibits can get pretty big. But then the bottleneck is the government website accepting the upload.
WTF is wrong with mine? IS it because I moved my office upstairs and I'm now wireless?
New up and down records!
You now have enough bandwidth to stream several [strike]porns[/strike] Netflix movies at once.
I can make mistakes much faster now. :lol:
On my phone while on the throne
Disable WiFi and try it again I dare ya
Cell signal
Pretty remarkable
With wifi on at work
Ha!
Metro center subway station cell phone signal
We're getting a new package from FIOS. We had gotten a letter that they won't be supporting our Verizon router any more and if we want to keep it, they will charge us like $5/month. Or we can buy a better pre-owned one for $60.
I went to their website to pay the fucking $60, and saw that they were offering an upgrade from our current 25/25Mbps package to a 50/50Mbps for $33 less per month. Nice, but it wouldn't load into my cart. And the $60 routers didn't exist. They were all $100. So I opened a chat with "Stephanie" and "she" offered me a free router and the 50/50 package for $33 less per month if I signed a 2 year deal. Sure, I'll sign up for that. So we got that going for us, which is nice. I'll have to update this thread when we get that new router and faster speed.
Meanwhile, I was on a slow train this morning that stopped for an extra 90 second schedule adjustment at the last 3 stations of my commute. The tunnels in Metro have no AT&T signal, but the stations do. However, it's really frustrating to get anything done on the phone in the 45 seconds or so that the train is stopped in the station. The time is short and the connection is painfully slow.
I give you AT&T 4G, 200 feet underground in Rosslyn:
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AT&T 4G, 80 feet underground in Foggy Bottom:
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AT&T 4G, 80 feet underground in Farragut West:
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AT&T 4G, 80 feet underground in McPhereson Square:
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I just noticed, my battery doesn't seem to like the workout.
Oof.
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At first I was all impressed, but then I saw it was Kilo not mega, and I can't do the math
Just move the decimal place three digits to the left and change kilo to mega
That's simple. I thought it was more complicated than that. The internet tells me "A Megabyte is 1,048,576 bytes or 1,024 Kilobytes." You don't just move the decimal point. Is it different with bits?
No but close enough for rock n roll.
That number is kilobytes too... bits don't enter into it
No but close enough for rock n roll.
[drift]
That was driving me nuts, I couldn't think of the song I just knew that was a line from.
.38 Special - Rockin' Into The Night
As you were, people.
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Yay. Upgrade is finally here.
Honesdale, eh?
I'm heading up there on Tuesday.
Can you check and see what they're doing with my bytes?
Now this: once you get past 20mb you have enough for all the Netflix you want and PING starts to become more interesting for you.
PING is much more important in gaming, video over IP such as Skype, voice over IP such as all telephony.
By these standards Sic is the current record holda for bandwidth, but glatt is the record holda for PING at 10ms. That means the Internets are faster for him because his clicks reach the destination website much faster, results seem snappier and more responsive, and if he makes video or audio calls, the signal is clean and not full of glitches and jitter.
When I first got FIOS, my brother the programmer guy checked my ping to see if I could do some beta testing with his online gaming company. He was blown away by my number, as it was the fastest he had ever seen. I think it was an 8 or 9 then.
But I had no time for gaming, so it never happened.
Maybe it has something to do with all the intelligence agencies around here. But they can't be using the same fiber networks I use, can they?
And looking back through the thread, I see my employer has a fast connection with a 5ms ping. We've got like 500 VOIP phones here in this building.
Maybe it has something to do with all the intelligence agencies around here. But they can't be using the same fiber networks I use, can they?
I imagine a lot is just how close you physically are to a lot of the major switches of the entire Internets. I don't know exactly how the backbones route these days, but the whole schmear pretty much grew up around Vienna, and all of NoVA. It used to be that to get a packet from Philly to Pittsburgh you had to go through NoVA.
My latest results 4259.27 Mbps down.... (It doesnt say UP or if it does Im not sure where to look)
From here:
www.ispgeeks.com/wild/modules/Bandwidth_Meter_DSL/initialmeter.php
Scripts must be enabled!!Just learned that if you Google "speed test" you will get a speed test similar to speedtest.net but without all the flash and ads.
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Since I don't have a static IP address, I guess it's ok that they publish it?
Also, we NETFLIX on two tv's at the same time, HD stream, with no troubles.
If you were streaming anything while taking the test, that might have affected it.
HD video is the hardest you'll ever push that connection, so unless you have any problems with it, like blocky video or pausing -- you're good to go!
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Nothing streaming, no one home but me.:|
I'm at 2.5mbps down and .5 up.
These seem low compared to the rest of you, but after 20 years at 30 kbps (that's K), I am in pig heaven.
It seems like 4259m (Dude111) would give you today's activity yesterday.
When I see a slow internet connection like that, I always think back to the old dial-up 56K connection and how that was the super duper fast connection of the day. I got my start on a 300 baud rate modem where you put the phone in the little cradle. It was my dad's Heathkit terminal he built to connect to the college mainframe.
I don't know the conversion. Maybe Google can help me, how many Mbps was 300 baud?
brb.....
This is confusing. It's the whole stupid MB is actually 1024 Bytes, not 1000 Bytes math always messes me up.
But I found
a site that talks about the speed to send a 1M file over different services.
300 baud took 27,962 sec (or a week and most of a day) to send 1 MB.
My current service is 75 Mbps and while I can't find 75 Mbps at the site, I can find 100Mbps and take 75% of that. 75 Mbps will transfer a 1 MB file in 0.06 seconds.
My current speed is 466,033.3 times faster than the first speed I ever experienced.
BTW, a 56k modem could send a 1MB file in 144.7 seconds.
A 6.312 Mbps connection will send that file in 1.2 seconds, over a hundred times faster.
I begin to wonder how rural broadband could ever happen. Government intervention is out cuz GOP voters. Electric Coops could do it but that smells like socialism and they need permission to challenge monopoly. I guess this is just one more pressure to depopulate rural America.
Wireless. Dude you're in one of the white spots, don't miss out that there are so utterly few white spots. 99% of the rural south is up and running. Only mountains fuck up wireless, because physics.
https://www.verizonwireless.com/featured/better-matters/?map=4glte#maps
ETA the Verizon map claims it covers 98% of US population with 4G!
I will attempt to be enthusiastic about other people's wireless and other people's fiber optic while I can't consistently send a text...
... or load the Verizon map apparently.
You can get a quote for a permanent wired circuit, which might be too expensive to install, but maybe if you share it with neighbors?
Do you happen to know if there is a local box your phones are wired to? Wherever the installer went to complete your circuit.
Do any neighbors have cable TV? Can you get cable yourself? What happens if you put in your address here:
https://www.verizon.com/foryourhome/ordering/checkavailabilitylq.aspxYou can get a quote for a permanent wired circuit, which might be too expensive to install, but maybe if you share it with neighbors? [COLOR="Teal"]I googled this, I have no idea what you're suggesting. [/COLOR]
Do you happen to know if there is a local box your phones are wired to? [COLOR="teal"]I think the phone box you're referring to is about 5.4 miles away. [/COLOR]Wherever the installer went to complete your circuit.
Do any neighbors have cable TV? [COLOR="teal"]No. [/COLOR]Can you get cable yourself? [COLOR="teal"]No. It isn't available. [/COLOR]What happens if you put in your address here:
https://www.verizon.com/foryourhome/ordering/checkavailabilitylq.aspx
[COLOR="teal"]These services are not available in your area.[/COLOR]
This is the cable search result for the nearest town 5 miles away.
https://www.cabletv.com/pa/little-meadowsI forget, do you have a small dish on the house now?
We have one hanging from years ago. Back then they had hard limits on data along with latency issues but it could be that those issues have been addressed? If the fiber would eventually get extended out 5rontier's service would be good enough.
The latency issues will continue to exist... it may still be a better experience than you have now. Data limits, I think you may have to limit the number of movies you download per month. It says here some dish service is 50GB/month and HD movies are about 3GB/hour, so there is math involved.
Tried to download a searchable Mueller report from the NYT this am for full context... nope. 1.34 download and .42 upload
Ah well, healthier to get on my tree project.
