Author Topic: How fast is your home internet? (Read 1665 times)

Silat · « **Reply #45 on:** July 11, 2007, 05:27:40 PM »

24047/1590 Portland Oregon to Seattle Washington

5938/1473 Portland Oregon to Washington DC

Steve try the test to the one furthest from your home:)

Latrobe · « **Reply #46 on:** July 11, 2007, 05:54:03 PM »

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Originally posted by McFarland
Download: 41 kbps
Upload: 213 kbps

Diagnosis: AOL dial up is very slow.

lol better than mine I just get 35-40 kbps on my dial-up (DAM U DFNow!) but its just right for AH2 for me

Rolex · « **Reply #47 on:** July 11, 2007, 07:10:24 PM »

It's a javascript test. Web browsers perform complex tasks during downloads so it's unreliable.The first few tens of kilobytes of a web page will pass through the cable modem at high speed before the capping algorithm cuts in, giving an over-optimistic estimate of download speeds.

The received data isn't copied to disk, so they produce optimistic estimates of download speeds, since delays introduced by disk systems are not taken into account.

RedDg · « **Reply #48 on:** July 11, 2007, 07:21:26 PM »

Chicago server:

Download Speed: 6813 kbps (851.6 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 488 kbps (61 KB/sec transfer rate)

vorticon · « **Reply #49 on:** July 11, 2007, 07:49:32 PM »

5.1kbps transfer rate download...if im lucky.

huzzah for 56k.

Meatwad · « **Reply #50 on:** July 11, 2007, 07:55:22 PM »

Upload - 931 kbps
Download - 9873 kbps

ghi · « **Reply #51 on:** July 11, 2007, 08:02:34 PM »

Toronto > Toronto

this site you can test it anywhere in the world, shows the ping also

http://www.speedtest.net/

Toronto -> Dallas,

Airscrew · « **Reply #52 on:** July 12, 2007, 12:03:35 AM »

Cedar Creek to San Marcus

Cedar Creek to Dallas

Cedar Creek to Bangor Maine

Cedar Creek to Moscow, Russia

Cedar Creek to Cape Town, South Africa

Singapore

Vulcan · « **Reply #53 on:** July 12, 2007, 12:29:17 AM »

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Originally posted by MiloMorai
On the news yesterday they interviewed a guy here in Sweden that made his own modem and network card for his computer. He ended up with a speed of 40Gbit/sec (not Mbit as most broadband connections). Apperently its the fastest speed ever made for download in the world today. it took 2 secs to download a Dvd movie he said...
mmmm future...

LOL... swedens calender is messed up, its not April 1st dude.

rpm · « **Reply #54 on:** July 12, 2007, 01:23:28 AM »

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Originally posted by McFarland
Don't I wish I could, it's 24.95 a month to boot. But I can't get BellSouth, and that's the only other provider in the area. And I would still be stuck with dial up.

I bet there's a discount ISP nearby. If AOL has a dialup, somebody else will too.

Try looking HERE. Good luck!

McFarland · « **Reply #55 on:** July 12, 2007, 06:48:03 AM »

Yeah, BellSouth does, but part of the agreement is you allow the popup ads they send. I keep saying that we could block the ads with our firewall, but no one will listen. They think that if you break the agreement it's illegal. So, we're stuck with AOL. The worst internet money can buy. And aboot the most expensive. But thanks, I'll try the thing you posted and see if there is something else nearby. I know that when I used the 2 week free trial of the MA, the lag was incredible. I remember the worst one was when I was doing a bombing run on a town, I got near the town, prepared to drop the bombs, started dropping, and the next thing I know, me plane just hit the after burners (a B-24J) and I was flying over another base that was a half hour away.

rpm · « **Reply #56 on:** July 12, 2007, 12:14:16 PM »

Lag will probably be a problem using one of those cheap isp's, but the game should be playable.

The way around the pop-up thing is easy. Run 2 browsers. Most will want you to download their dialer and browser app. Use that to dial in, then open your normal browser and surf away. My sister has to do that with her WalMart connect account.

TripleAA · « **Reply #57 on:** July 13, 2007, 04:24:48 AM »

MiloMorai · « **Reply #58 on:** July 14, 2007, 01:53:55 AM »

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Originally posted by Vulcan
LOL... swedens calender is messed up, its not April 1st dude.

A 75 year old woman from Karlstad in central Sweden has been thrust into the IT history books - with the world's fastest internet connection.

Sigbritt Löthberg's home has been supplied with a blistering 40 Gigabits per second connection, many thousands of times faster than the average residential link and the first time ever that a home user has experienced such a high speed.

But Sigbritt, who had never had a computer until now, is no ordinary 75 year old. She is the mother of Swedish internet legend Peter Löthberg who, along with Karlstad Stadsnät, the local council's network arm, has arranged the connection.

Sigbritt will now be able to enjoy 1,500 high definition HDTV channels simultaneously. Or, if there is nothing worth watching there, she will be able to download a full high definition DVD in just two seconds.

The secret behind Sigbritt's ultra-fast connection is a new modulation technique which allows data to be transferred directly between two routers up to 2,000 kilometres apart, with no intermediary transponders.

According to Karlstad Stadsnät the distance is, in theory, unlimited - there is no data loss as long as the fibre is in place. The point, said Hafsteinn Jonsson, is that fibre technology makes such high speed connections technically and commercially viable.

Latrobe · « **Reply #59 on:** July 14, 2007, 06:10:46 AM »

everyone has a better connection than me