How fast is your internet connection?

[wrldwzrd89]

My DSL service plan is stated as 1.5Mbps/256Kbps. I usually score between 1200 and 1600 Kbps down and about 160+ Kbps up, so I'm getting what I pay for.

Do you remember when you made the switch from dial-up to broadband? Ahhh...heaven! I remember the good feeling I had when I finally dumped AOL and got broadband.

Consider yourself lucky - not many DSL users have the privelege of such a fast connection. Most DSL users get considerably lower connection speeds than you do (384 - 768 kbps is typical for DSL). Your DSL is approximately equal to my cable connection.

 

[mooshoo]

whoa...my connection speed was 862 kbps...not bad for home wireless network.

 

[jiggie2g]

I got my super fast OOL Connection 10Mb/1Mb Cable using a Motorola Surf Board 5100 cable modem

 

[nuclearwinter]

Dang! I didn't realize it was that fast.

*4646.9*kbps DL. This is average of multiple tests from different speed testing sites.

 

[Dr. Distortion]

Super-fast full-duplex 100mbit line (university of Eindhoven, the Netherlands). I've had down and upload speeds exceeding 10 megabytes/sec!!! If you want to see how the connectivity on my end is, just try to ping or trace 131.155.176.20 (a shared HP LaserJet printer over here)

 

[Powerbook G5]

Consider yourself lucky - not many DSL users have the privelege of such a fast connection. Most DSL users get considerably lower connection speeds than you do (384 - 768 kbps is typical for DSL). Your DSL is approximately equal to my cable connection.

I usually see DSL in the 1.5 Mbps range, I thought that was more standard in most of the US. I have 3 Mbps which is definitely a lot slower than many places I've seen, but you just have to work with what is available to you at the time. Usually it seems that cable modems are faster, I've had three cable modem services at home, but Time Warner here is awful at everything so I decided to try DSL and see what it was like. It's a bit more expensive and Bellsouth is about as knowledgeable as a room full of trained monkeys, but at the end of the day, I am usually able to download up to 400 KB/s wirelessly from my PowerBook in my bed, which I cannot complain about at all.

 

[Nermal]

Here in NZ you can get 128/128 for $30 per month, or 256/128 for $60 per month. The next step up is 2048/768 for 20c per MB!

 

[wrldwzrd89]

I usually see DSL in the 1.5 Mbps range, I thought that was more standard in most of the US. I have 3 Mbps which is definitely a lot slower than many places I've seen, but you just have to work with what is available to you at the time. Usually it seems that cable modems are faster, I've had three cable modem services at home, but Time Warner here is awful at everything so I decided to try DSL and see what it was like. It's a bit more expensive and Bellsouth is about as knowledgeable as a room full of trained monkeys, but at the end of the day, I am usually able to download up to 400 KB/s wirelessly from my PowerBook in my bed, which I cannot complain about at all.

That's surprising - all the DSL services I've seen advertise 384 - 768 Mbps since the actual speed you get from DSL depends on your distance from your phone carrier's office (which may very well be 1.5 Mbps if you're VERY close to your carrier), which is a bit stupid IMO. DSL beats cable by your bandwidth not being shared among all in your neighborhood. I much prefer cable, which has the disadvantage of being shared by everyone hooked up to it in your neighborhood, but has no distance-based speed restrictions.

 

[tomf87]

Super-fast full-duplex 100mbit line (university of Eindhoven, the Netherlands). I've had down and upload speeds exceeding 10 megabytes/sec!!! If you want to see how the connectivity on my end is, just try to ping or trace 131.155.176.20 (a shared HP LaserJet printer over here)

Well keep in mind that both of those tools are very lightweight and not very accurate at testing speed.

In addition, if someone else has a slower connection, it won't matter how fast you are, you'll appear just as slow as their own connection.

 

[Powerbook G5]

That's surprising - all the DSL services I've seen advertise 384 - 768 Mbps since the actual speed you get from DSL depends on your distance from your phone carrier's office (which may very well be 1.5 Mbps if you're VERY close to your carrier), which is a bit stupid IMO. DSL beats cable by your bandwidth not being shared among all in your neighborhood. I much prefer cable, which has the disadvantage of being shared by everyone hooked up to it in your neighborhood, but has no distance-based speed restrictions.

I am about 4-5 minutes walking distance from the Bellsouth building in town.

 

[Thirteenva]

That's surprising - all the DSL services I've seen advertise 384 - 768 Mbps since the actual speed you get from DSL depends on your distance from your phone carrier's office (which may very well be 1.5 Mbps if you're VERY close to your carrier), which is a bit stupid IMO. DSL beats cable by your bandwidth not being shared among all in your neighborhood. I much prefer cable, which has the disadvantage of being shared by everyone hooked up to it in your neighborhood, but has no distance-based speed restrictions.

I'm at 14,800 wired feet from my CO and i get 1468/370 on my 1500/384 connection. Many people can get 768/128 up to 19000 ft. However the wiring has to be in good condition. This situation is not specific to dsl though, cable connection speeds can also suffer due to bad wiring.

Another difference between DSL and Cable is that DSL lines have lower ping times due to the way the network is setup when compared to cable. This makes dsl more capable at certain tasks, online gaming is a good example.

 

[snooziums]

*sigh*

I must be so special. I tried that link for testing speeds at cnet.com, and here is the result:

12.1 kbps

Yeah, I feel really special right now. *sigh*

 

[aussie_geek]

759.6 kbps

I am in australia though. I get about 1600kbps from sites here.


aussie_geek

 

[fistful]

26400bps.


I had cable a year and a half ago, at the time it was fast so I didn't care to check my connection speed...I miss it!

 

[realityisterror]

that cnet link tells me 32.6kbps on my 256kbps... downloads hover around 30KBps though which is good...

i usually use mcafee and pcpitstop for testing..

reality

 

[davecuse]

4Mbps! I just moved and finally have access to broadband, I did that Cnet test a few weeks ago at my old place (on dial up) and on a good day I was getting 15kbps.

 

[titaniumducky]

I have about 2600Kbps down and 400Kbps up.

That CNet thing is reeallly inaccurate. I usually use broadbandreports.com's speed test.

 

[NusuniAdmin]

RR here

I have rr here, they say (at least for central ny) the max for home is 1.5 mbit, although I am always getting 2.5-3.5 mbit (no its not uncapped). As for upload I have no clue, but i know it takes like 15-25 seconds to upload a 1 MB file (im too lazy to grab a calculator and figure it)

Actually i have no idea why but I was dling a mandrake iso the other day and occording to safari it jumped from 200k/second to 2 MB/second for about 3 seconds. Yes thas a capital B not lowercase. Talk about a network fart, id say thats a major one

 

[junior]

100mbit/s (optic).

 

[wrldwzrd89]

I feel bad for those of you who are both stuck on dial-up and get lousy connections - nowhere near the speed you're supposed to get with your modem (for example, consistently getting connection speeds of 28000 bps or lower on a 56k modem). I used to get these sometimes, and it was not fun at all, having to wait twice as long as I should for a file to download.

 

[blue&whiteman]

 

[beerguy]

Beat this.

 

[applemacdude]

Beat this.

Holy **** what connection do u have?

 

[wrldwzrd89]

Beat this.

Wowsers! Now that's what I call bandwidth. Your upload speed is incredible, and your download speed is impressive too.

 

[beerguy]

Surewest broadband.

It's fiber to the house.