Average megabits.

jimsowden

macrumors 68000

Original poster

• Mar 11, 2004

• #1

Just out of curiosity, what kind of bandwidth do you guys get? I'm near PHL PA and i get about 3.2mb from comcast on bandwidthplace.com. At work (a partial t1) only about 1.1 mb. Though they do have alot of computers on it.

 

varmit

macrumors 68000

• Mar 11, 2004

• #2

test your speed

http://bandwidthplace.com/speedtest/

Communications 2.5 megabits per second
Storage 301 kilobytes per second
1MB file download 3.4 seconds
Subjective rating Great

 

stoid

macrumors 601

• Mar 12, 2004

• #3

Run the test twice. The second time your test score will kick ass, since Safari has the 1 MB cached!! 😀

 

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beerguy

macrumors regular

• Mar 12, 2004

• #4

Surewest Broadband baby - fiber to the house:

 

wordmunger

macrumors 603

• Mar 12, 2004

• #5

Communications 851 kilobits per second
Storage 103.9 kilobytes per second
1MB file download 9.9 seconds
Subjective rating Good

DSL line. Plenty of bandwidth for me.

 

edesignuk

Moderator emeritus

• Mar 12, 2004

• #6

My 2MB Blueyonder speed tests at about 2.5Mbit, which get's me a max d/l speed of about 300kb/sec.

 

Mav451

macrumors 68000

• Mar 12, 2004

• #7

Communications 7.2 megabits per second
Storage 873 kilobytes per second
1MB file download 1.2 seconds
Subjective rating Awesome

i'm on the college LAN though, which slows to a halt when idiots using Outlook decide to open attachments 🙁

Seems to be doing pretty well today though.

 

themadchemist

macrumors 68030

• Mar 12, 2004

• #8

My connection was too fast to be supported by the speed test. Over 8 megabits 😀

 

Counterfit

macrumors G3

• Mar 12, 2004

• #9

Aw man, mine shows a 2.1 and 2.3 mbit. 🙁
I wonder what's causing the loss of that 0.7/0.9 mbits... overhead?