I just thought it could be interesting if we compared internet connections. If you want to post your speed in this thread, please post using http://www.speedtest.net/ and copy-pasting the forum link. Thanks.

jcarle: videotron extreme? That's pretty much what I get with them too. Just discovered they've got an ever faster service (extreme plus - up to 20mbit), but either ways the extreme is fast enough, except for the upload, but then again the upload is hardly faster with the extreme plus (1mbit vs 900kbit) - and 80$/month is a little too much (I thought 65+tax was bad enough already).

Home


Just got an upgrade!!


Work

Home:

Mine must be the slowest!!!!!!!!!

Wow! What kind of connection are you on?

Clavicle - ouch! a couple of teamed dial up connections might be better.

work:

Ohh... c'mon... didn't know work counted . I'll post mine tomorrow

jcarle didn't say which connection so I did both once I got logged onto my office system.

Home:


Work is like, 700KB/s.

Home, cable:

School


It could be faster by my dorm is wired with a 10mbit cat3 network.

I know... its all good

My connection is a shared type over lan by my ISP. And my ISP has a total bandwidth of measely 4mbps. Consider this to be shared among more than a thousand users.

I tell you, I am a previliged customer so I get this much bandwidth others get only 64kbps.

Back here in India we are still in paleolithic age of internet speed.

Though I pay around 15USD a month for this but you don't have a choice.

@IcemanND, teamed up dialups are equally bad, one connection providing only 56kbps.

Catch you all guys up a few years later.

Yea, 20Mbit is indeed the fastest Videotron offers BUT beware, 20Mbit does not offer unlimited bandwidth, there is a bandwidth cap and NO limit as to how much they can charge per extra GB. That's why I'm staying with Extreme 10Mbit, unlimited bandwidth.


Wow. OC3?

That's totally retarded of them. That's got to be the stupidest plan they've got then (80$/month for a speed most servers on the internet can't deliver anyways - only to go faster through a monthly cap and owe even more). I picked the extreme too because of the ridiculously expensive $8/GB extra over the low cap.



Nah, WAY too slow for an OC3. Looks like FiOS or such.

Well, it could be SHARED OC3.

actually we have multiple internet connections. The connection that test was run on is part of a fiber link. With over 23000 devices connected in the last week and that doesn't include VOIP you gotta have something good.

Can't remember if it was OC-1 or OC-3 and they split the OC-3 amongst the separate VLANS. been too long since it happened.

Thats the fastest my line will allow. Too far from the exchange for faster ADSL Speeds and no cable in my area

Looking at HSDPA data price-plans now though.

This is my home computer connection:

There's an OC-3c at work, and it goes up to ~130Mbps.

I'll post a result once everyone else leaves and I get the whole connection to myself

I would like to have better upload for p2p.

Work, shared connection amoung other schools in our area:

****. Some of you have incredible upload speeds.

Home:

Another home connection.

OMG!!! I wish to be living near you. Here is mine, and its the worse.

Home Connection. Verizon FIOS 15/2 plan.

Home, Wanadooooooooooooooo Débit Max (8M/1M)



Did you know ADSL2 costs 30€ in France ? ^_^

Hmmm. One has to wonder at the accuracy, since I'm actually 200 mi from the server--not the 100 listed. Still, not too bad for being out in the woods, 200 miles from the nearest real city....and sure beats the 43.3kbps dialup 3 yrs ago.

At my house, although I don't use the 'net at home as much as I use to. The latency is horrible compared to others who have posted.

-John

This is what I have at work:

When you send the students on break the connection is better.

That's like a bandwidth orgasm.

LMAO!

Hahaha... you got that right...

A bandgasm?

I thought that my score will be worst of all but it definitely ain't

work:




home:

Looking fine. Came in handy for setting up QoS.

Hehe... university network speeds rule...

I think I've actually been able to get higher uploads than that before. I've uploaded files to external sites at 2.5MB/s... oh well - can't complain.


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Hehe... just got a better speed. I'll try again tonight when there are fewer people on campus.

and they said I was having a bandgasm.

On my lousy 8/0.8 Mbit.

I had a very nice 100/100 Fibre-LAN connection before (not very uncommon in Sweden), but I unfortunately had to move to another apartment. I got a maximum of around 90-something Mbit/s in both directions with that one. The price of that connection was about 50$/month, my current 8/0.8 costs the same.

I think 77mbit down or so qualifies to be called as such. We've got super fast links at work (OC3 between all sites) but they're just that (inter-site, no internet access over them, i.e. just intranet stuff), and we use local internet providers for internet access (cheaper that way).

Anyways. Is it just me, or speedtest.net is quite pessimistic, or perhaps it's the one mirror I'm trying (Montreal) that's not so reliable or something? At first I thought it was just something with my connection. I routinely get speeds around 1150kb/s to 1200 sustained (saw getright hit 1250 tonite, even with emule running in background). Yet, that site says I only get like 8mbit or so. Tried it at my dad's over the holidays (same mirror), and even though he's on a "basic" plan (640kbit), this thing reports less than we get downloading stuff everyday (download at ~100kb/s - never under 90, and that site reports high 500's to 600kb/s every time we try). Maybe one has to be super-close to the server for it to be a reliable measure or something.

Edit: LOL. Something's wrong with that mirror or something. Just tried it and it tells me 5030kbps, and somehow as soon as I start getright (or anything else almost) I hit twice that instantly. Distance information is quite off too (says <50 mi, but it's actually over 100).

I never trust those online speed testers. They give you a different number each time seemingly without any pattern to them.

aDSL2+ Oslo, Norway.

Test results:


Advertised line speed:
Downstream: 20mbit
Upstream: 1mbit

Actual line speed:
Downstream: 1,9 mb/s
Upstream: 170 kb/s

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