How fast is your internet connection?

2005-07-30 07:34:28 EST: 3949 / 350

Your download speed : 4044017 bps, or 3949 kbps.

A 493.6 KB/sec transfer rate.

Your upload speed : 358472 bps, or 350 kbps.



Comcast...Used the Seattle server. Guess its not bad for all the way across the country.
 
2005-07-30 08:14:21 EST: 2705 / 666

Your download speed : 2770686 bps, or 2705 kbps.

A 338.2 KB/sec transfer rate.

Your upload speed : 682311 bps, or 666 kbps.



Verizon DSL 3.0/768 deal :grinno: crap.
 
I did the test on my lap top that I use off a wireless router. How much impact would the router have if any?
 
Illusion said:
I did the test on my lap top that I use off a wireless router. How much impact would the router have if any?

Just using a router in general shouldn't make any difference, but the fact you are running wirelessly could have a little impact. This all depends on what type of wireless system you are running.



I'm using a router also, with a 4 and a 9 port switch in addition to that (I have my whole house wired for broadband), and I didn't notice any drop in performance from going from direct connect or routed and switched. Then again, I'm all wired too, no wireless.



I tried wireless but I couldn't leave the room that the router was in before losing signal, so what was the point. I just opted to spend the extra money and have the house hard wired.
 
2005-07-30 21:26:07 EST: 583 / 81

Your download speed : 597464 bps, or 583 kbps.

A 72.9 KB/sec transfer rate.

Your upload speed : 83385 bps, or 81 kbps.



[Direcway Satellite Internet]



I used the LA server so I probably would have seen better numbers if I had picked a server closer to me here on the East Coast.
 
JDookie said:
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I tried wireless but I couldn't leave the room that the router was in before losing signal, so what was the point. I just opted to spend the extra money and have the house hard wired.



I had the same issue with wireless. I looked at wiring the house but, went with a powerline network instead. If you consider than every room in the house has several electrical outlets it is very flexible and much cheaper than hard wiring.



I use Netgear Powerline modules. They are plug and play. We currently have 3 modules with a network of 5 computers and one networked printer in 3 different rooms. My mom lives with us and she recently bought a laptop. We added a module to her room and with a long ethernet cable she can sit on her bed, watch TV, browse foodtv.com and print her recipes to our networked printer :D



http://www.netgear.com/products/details/XE102.php



xe102.jpg
 
2005-07-30 21:35:10 EST: 3503 / 508

Your download speed : 3587455 bps, or 3503 kbps.

A 437.9 KB/sec transfer rate.

Your upload speed : 520374 bps, or 508 kbps.



Cox High Speedin in Peoria, AZ
 
rjstaaf said:
2005-07-30 21:26:07 EST: 583 / 81

Your download speed : 597464 bps, or 583 kbps.

A 72.9 KB/sec transfer rate.

Your upload speed : 83385 bps, or 81 kbps.



[Direcway Satellite Internet]



I used the LA server so I probably would have seen better numbers if I had picked a server closer to me here on the East Coast.



Just to see what kind of numbers I could get, I ran another test against a server in Atlanta, GA which is MUCH closer to me. Huge difference.



Download Speed: 723 kbps (90.4 KB/sec transfer rate)

Upload Speed: 554 kbps (69.3 KB/sec transfer rate)



[Direcway Satellite Internet]
 
2005-07-30 22:55:41 EST: 1098 / 207

Your download speed : 1125068 bps, or 1098 kbps.

A 137.3 KB/sec transfer rate.

Your upload speed : 212269 bps, or 207 kbps.



Broadband here in Australia, 1500k plan
 
toyemp said:
Actually, the servers can handle quite a bit. We have dual 100 mbps internet connections at work and the results I have gotten in the past were pretty close. Obviously, if you pick a server closer to you, you get better results.



I have *quite* a bit better than that at work. :D



Here's my home result... Verizon sucks. This is connecting to the National Science Foundation server as those CA sites that come up by default had pretty poor performance for me.



Checking for Middleboxes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Done

running 10s outbound test (client to server) . . . . . 141.74Kb/s

running 10s inbound test (server to client) . . . . . . 752.94kb/s

Your PC is connected to a Cable/DSL modem

Information: Other network traffic is congesting the link
 
Aurora40 said:
I have *quite* a bit better than that at work. :D



All right -- I'll bite. How fast are we talking about?? :bow



We have multi-fiber interconnects to Qwest, MCI and AT&T currently so theoretically, I could bump our connection speed up into the multi-gigabit connection range, but there never has been a need to go that high (plus cost obviously). I do have dual OC-192 connections between CA and AZ, MD and IA if that counts :2thumbs:
 
2005-08-01 00:48:03 EST: 6397 / 633

Your download speed : 6551189 bps, or 6397 kbps.

A 799.7 KB/sec transfer rate.

Your upload speed : 648368 bps, or 633 kbps.



Advertised Speed: 6000 down, 500 up
 
toyemp said:
All right -- I'll bite. How fast are we talking about?? :bow



We have multi-fiber interconnects to Qwest, MCI and AT&T currently so theoretically, I could bump our connection speed up into the multi-gigabit connection range, but there never has been a need to go that high (plus cost obviously). I do have dual OC-192 connections between CA and AZ, MD and IA if that counts :2thumbs:



Well, I don't know exactly... But pretty large. I work at AOL's main headquarters. There's a datacenter right across the street. It's a pretty fat pipe.



Here's a better test result from a closer server. Note it seems my computer (probably buffers and computing power), desktop switch, and ethernet connection is the real limiter. And this is in the middle of the day with thousands of other employees using the network:



Checking for Middleboxes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Done

running 10s outbound test (client to server) . . . . . 16.06Mb/s

running 10s inbound test (server to client) . . . . . . 38.14Mb/s

The slowest link in the end-to-end path is a 100 Mbps Full duplex Fast Ethernet subnet
 
2005-08-04 23:53:03 EST: 633 / 631

Your download speed : 648403 bps, or 633 kbps.

A 79.1 KB/sec transfer rate.

Your upload speed : 646247 bps, or 631 kbps.
 
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