Post your latest connection speed...
 

...according to Speedtest.net. I just thought it might be fun.

http://www.speedtest.net/result/249296283.png

ok, let's try.

I don't have the foggiest what it means but here it is (as you know I'm at work)

Here's Mine

http://www.speedtest.net/result/249312002.png

Well, it looks like your upload speed is actually faster than your download speed...very unusual.

http://www.speedtest.net/result/249329611.png

Verizon FIOS ftw

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.

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.
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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.

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.

http://www.speedtest.net/result/249435071.png

this is from my laptop over a WAN. jinx is 3 feet away.....better laptop?

SLOW
 

Something wrong with Time warner tonite. Usually 10mbps, but for some reason, 256kbs SUX.

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http://www.speedtest.net/result/249464955.png
Wow - Verizon DSL blows!

ok

http://www.speedtest.net/result/249467564.png

Monsters watching video on the other (faster) computer maybe that sucking some.
EDIT: meh, download stayed the same, upload went up a bit

Nerd. ('s the only sucking I'll be doing tonight..... :p)

My latest:

http://www.speedtest.net/result/249471581.png

bleh. I should consider upgrading my DSL to FIOS.

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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.

http://www.speedtest.net/result/249688297.png

Here ya go.

http://www.speedtest.net/result/250101889.png
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.
http://www.speedtest.net/result/250264381.png

Now it's lunch time, and presumably, many of my cow orkers are surfing.

http://www.speedtest.net/result/250338751.png

Certainly a consistent service.

What will it be next? We could have a pool.

I'm going for 1091 and 208. Any other takers?

Ask, and ye shalleth recieveth-eth...eth. :)

http://www.speedtest.net/result/250463375.png

oooh, so close!

I assume everyone is testing using the recommended server, as opposed to something a distance away from their location?

http://www.speedtest.net/result/250515253.png

Recommended server (New York in my case)

http://www.speedtest.net/result/250539196.png

(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:

http://www.speedtest.net/result/250539815.png

Speaking of bandwidth, do any of you work for a provider? I'm in the market for some a few T1 lines at work.

http://www.speedtest.net/result/250572392.png

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:

http://www.speedtest.net/result/250590056.png

:cool: I thought fer sure it'd be 0/0.

What the hell? Verizon dsl is lame tonight.
http://www.speedtest.net/result/253959167.png

It says Level 3... did you grab onto somebody else's wireless by accident?

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:

http://www.speedtest.net/result/254029487.png

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.

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.

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I LOVE my FIOS. This isn't even the fastest they offer. Such an improvement over my old DSL and is the same price.

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