Help Me Speed Up my Mac Pro Internet Connection

[goMac]

Doesn't matter. You can get dedicated T3 lines....

linky...

I do believe I just said T3 lines were dedicated...

Speedtest is showing I have an download speed of 14.21 Mb/s. How am I doing?

That sounds exactly right for basic residential cable internet, maybe a bit faster than average actually.

 

[Adam0306]

How do I check what internet speed I am currently getting? Is there a website you go to or something? The internet speeds at the Apple Store were awesome, so I asked them what they were running. They said wireless using a T3 cable off of a cable internet connection. What does T3 mean?

Connection Speed

 

[Adam0306]

Meh. OC12 or bust.

PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[gfhoward]

That sounds exactly right for basic residential cable internet, maybe a bit faster than average actually.

OK. Seems like that is the fastest speed my provider (Time Warner Cable) offers, so the bottom line ya'll are saying is: I have no way to further increase my speed at this time. No replacing the modem, cables, or router will make any difference?

 

[Dr.Pants]

OK. Seems like that is the fastest speed my provider (Time Warner Cable) offers, so the bottom line ya'll are saying is: I have no way to further increase my speed at this time. No replacing the modem, cables, or router will make any difference?

From here -

users have attempted to override the bandwidth cap and gain access to the full bandwidth of the system (often as much as 30 Mbit/s), by uploading their own configuration file to the cable modem - a process called uncapping. Uncapping is almost always a violation of the Terms of Service agreement

With a reference here. Just saying it can be done, only illegally. However, in the same document, I gotta love how Time Warner describes "Wifi Theft"

 

[davidlv]

Speedtest is showing I have an download speed of 14.21 Mb/s. How am I doing?

Well, here in Japan the most common ISP type is ASDL. I had a well-known ISP ASDL provider until recently with an advertised speed of 12Mb/s, got 1/2 or a lttle more of that in actual use (depends on phsical distance to the closest node).
That was not quite fast enough so I changed over to NTT's Flets (Optic fiber net for home use, supposedly 100Mb/s, combined with NEC Biglobe Inc. (rated 3.8 stars /5) ISP. Speedtest.net results showed:
Download 39.24Mb/s
Upload 42.87 Mb/s
(almost 2x the average ISP and a Noticible speed difference from my old ASDL service!)
Pingtest.net
Grade A Ping 17ms, Jitter 1ms 0packet loss
That's about as good as you can get in Japan I think, but I haven't seen results from ISP's providing Cable service (I have heard that speed varies widely on Cable in certain time of day zones, due to heavy use).
If other people could post their results it might help to make informed decisions on ISP providers and connection type, worldwide.

 

[goMac]

OK. Seems like that is the fastest speed my provider (Time Warner Cable) offers, so the bottom line ya'll are saying is: I have no way to further increase my speed at this time. No replacing the modem, cables, or router will make any difference?

No, unless you want to do what Dr.Pants suggested (which is both highly illegal and could get your internet access cut off.)

 

[Dr.Pants]

No, unless you want to do what Dr.Pants suggested (which is both highly illegal and could get your internet access cut off.)

Yep. It probably will in this day and age. I wouldn't do it at all - just saying that it can be done. GoMac makes a good point about getting your internet cut off - I wouldn't be surprised if there's a blacklist for this sort of stuff as well.