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Title: What's Your Internet Speed/Reliability SATISFACTION?
Post by: Renegade on September 06, 2010, 10:31 AM

Sigh... I'm getting less than 1 digit of DL speed in kbps...

So, how does your connection stack up?

Title: Re: What's Your Internet Speed/Reliability SATISFACTION?
Post by: Josh on September 06, 2010, 10:42 AM

25Down 10Up FIOS. Loving it!

(http://www.speedtest.net/result/944456623.png)

Title: Re: What's Your Internet Speed/Reliability SATISFACTION?
Post by: nite_monkey on September 06, 2010, 10:48 AM

Im over at my friend's house right now, and he gets
1.50 down
0.27 up
...It is AWESOME!!! (end sarcasm)

I forget exactly what I get back at my house. I know it is a lot better though.

Title: Re: What's Your Internet Speed/Reliability SATISFACTION?
Post by: justice on September 06, 2010, 10:49 AM

Very good thanks cable fiber internet seems to be a lot more reliable than adsl.

Title: Re: What's Your Internet Speed/Reliability SATISFACTION?
Post by: f0dder on September 06, 2010, 01:25 PM

20/2mbit ADSL2+, which is somewhat more than adequate :). I pay about $60/mo for this line, which I find to be expensive, but it's normal price here in .dk.

Line is mostly stable, but if I really maxx it out it sometimes dies, and I have to power-cycle my modem (and I have to wait a few minutes before turning back on, or it doesn't connect). Not sure exactly why it happens, but it's mostly if there's high bandwidth usage and a lot of connections - I suspect it's more a matter of unstable firmware than the raw copper not being good enough quality.

I'm tempted to move to another service provider that does VDSL and can offer me 30/2 + IP telephony for the same price as my current subscription. Wish I could get FIOS... there's craploads and more craploads right out there in the road, and a large hosting facility right across the street. But can I get my hands on it, as a regular guy living in an apartment? Nope.

Title: Re: What's Your Internet Speed/Reliability SATISFACTION?
Post by: Carol Haynes on September 06, 2010, 02:39 PM

20/2mbit ADSL2+, which is somewhat more than adequate :). I pay about $60/mo for this line, which I find to be expensive, but it's normal price here in .dk.

-f0dder (September 06, 2010, 01:25 PM)

Is that the actual speed you get or is that the advertised headline rate?

My headline rate is 20mbit ADSL - in fact I achieve around 6.7mbit where I live (which given my location is actually pretty good - given that people within sight of my house are getting 256kbit download speeds). Upload speed is supposed to be 0.5Mbit but I mostly don't get much more than 0.34-0.38 - which is pretty crap when you are trying to do website work.

Title: Re: What's Your Internet Speed/Reliability SATISFACTION?
Post by: f0dder on September 06, 2010, 02:50 PM

I can get around 2Mbyte/sec download and 200Kbyte/sec upload speeds - haven't checked exactly how fast it goes, but it's a bit faster than those rough figures. Depends on a bit of factors, and it's not often that a single server can offer full speed (I just did a speedtest.net to the hosting centre across the street and got 17.4/1.7, even though I don't have any other traffic going at the moment), but for a well-seeded torrent it's usually not a problem reaching 2MB/s. I just hit 2100KB/s for linuxmint-9-gnome-cd-amd64.iso at the 450meg mark (establishing multiple connections, TCP slow-start, et cetera). A bit amazing, since linux ISOs have always been so poorly seeded when I've tried that multipart HTTP leeching has been (way) faster.

Title: Re: What's Your Internet Speed/Reliability SATISFACTION?
Post by: Carol Haynes on September 06, 2010, 03:47 PM

So it really isn't 20mbit - I get around 900Kb/s download speeds with a 6.7mbit connection.

If you want to test your speed try www.speedtest.net

Title: Re: What's Your Internet Speed/Reliability SATISFACTION?
Post by: superboyac on September 06, 2010, 04:05 PM

My connection is overpriced for what it provides.  Unfortunately, it's the best available in my area.  I'm so jealous of FIOS users (like my sister) or any other fiber service.  I don't know what my rated specs are, but that doesn't really matter.  All that matters is what I actually have seen, and what I pay:
$45 a month
DL Max speed I've been able to see consistently = 700 KB/s
UL Max speed I've seen = 60 KB/s

Also, what's up with bits?  Isn't it more convenient to use "bytes" in conversation?  I don't know about you guys, but everytime someone says bits, I have to divide by 8 in my head before I have a feel for what it really means.  I don't know why everyone does that.  All our files on our computers are shown in bytes.  This whole bits thing is weird.  if you ask me, the only reason the companies advertise in bits is because the number is bigger, so it's more impressive.  My two cents as usual.

Title: Re: What's Your Internet Speed/Reliability SATISFACTION?
Post by: f0dder on September 06, 2010, 04:07 PM

So it really isn't 20mbit - I get around 900Kb/s download speeds with a 6.7mbit connection.

-Carol Haynes (September 06, 2010, 03:47 PM)

Keep the TCP/IP overhead in mind. I got 2100KB/s, or 2.150.400 bytes/sec. How fast is 20Mbps - 20.000.000bit/sec (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_rate_units#Megabit_per_second) or 20.971.520bit/sec? :). Going with the wiki definition, the raw data rate is at 86% of the theoretical speed. Also, an ADSL line has more overhead than just TCP - my connection is through PPPoA (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point-to-Point_Protocol_over_ATM).

I guess it could be worth doing the download test again and see what bandwidth the modem reports, that should hopefully be the raw traffic.

If you want to test your speed try www.speedtest.net

-Carol Haynes (September 06, 2010, 03:47 PM)

Already did so, as I mentioned in the preivous post :)

Title: Re: What's Your Internet Speed/Reliability SATISFACTION?
Post by: rgdot on September 06, 2010, 04:50 PM

Canada's infrastructure is poor for a developed country. Right now my DSL is around 2.5/0.4.

Problem goes from lack of infrastructure spending by the likes of Bell (phone) and Rogers (cable) right down to DSLAMs and even neighborhood wiring.

Title: Re: What's Your Internet Speed/Reliability SATISFACTION?
Post by: NigelH on September 06, 2010, 06:14 PM

Must admit, I really can't complain these days (up could be somewhat better)
http://www.speedtest.net/result/943242820.png
32.7 Mb/s down : 3.62 Mb/s up

Reliability in my area is excellent as well - has been for a long time.
This is Cox Communications "Preferred"
Speeds up to 20 Mbps with PowerBoost®, great for music and photos.

Title: Re: What's Your Internet Speed/Reliability SATISFACTION?
Post by: ljbirns on September 06, 2010, 07:15 PM

I have Cox also-  I'm just twice as far away as NigelH.  I have no complaint about Cox

http://www.speedtest.net/result/943289091.png

Title: Re: What's Your Internet Speed/Reliability SATISFACTION?
Post by: mrainey on September 06, 2010, 09:06 PM

My Charter service has been pretty reliable.


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Title: Re: What's Your Internet Speed/Reliability SATISFACTION?
Post by: Renegade on September 06, 2010, 09:35 PM

I should have done a speed test... Good idea!

(http://www.speedtest.net/result/943391631.png) (http://www.speedtest.net)

It's good at the moment. But, just really unreliable. Everyday I hit times when it's excruciatingly slow.

Title: Re: What's Your Internet Speed/Reliability SATISFACTION?
Post by: cranioscopical on September 06, 2010, 10:07 PM

You guys think you have it tough?

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and all for just $100/month  :(

This is satellite.
There's a spiffy new wireless tower about 400 meters from my house but I can't access that because I live in a forest —  I'd need to build a mast roughly the height of the Eiffel tower.



 

Title: Re: What's Your Internet Speed/Reliability SATISFACTION?
Post by: mouser on September 06, 2010, 10:16 PM

comcast in Illinois:
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Title: Re: What's Your Internet Speed/Reliability SATISFACTION?
Post by: 4wd on September 06, 2010, 10:34 PM

512kbps/128kbps - I'm stuck with ADSL1 because Australia's infrastructure is sorely lacking, (Telstra ADSL2+ equipment is installed in the local exchange but any ISP who uses it charges an arm, leg, first born, yearly wages * 10 and your soul).  And because almost all ADSL1 equipment is Telstras it means that almost all ISPs charge a comparative fortune for it compared to if they have their own ADSL2+ equipment installed.

But it is full speed all the time - no slowdowns/disconnections, (apart from occasional ISP upstream problems - eg. backbone down, etc), and true unlimited data quota unlike almost all other ISPs which throttle bandwidth.

So satisfaction is high going by Renegades requirements but "value for money" isn't compared to what it would cost in, say, the USA.

Title: Re: What's Your Internet Speed/Reliability SATISFACTION?
Post by: Shades on September 06, 2010, 10:49 PM

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This is the connection you get here in Paraguay for about 100 USD/month.

Title: Re: What's Your Internet Speed/Reliability SATISFACTION?
Post by: biox on September 06, 2010, 10:51 PM

The upload speed is way behind times but otherwise it's nice and stable

(http://www.speedtest.net/result/943443817.png) (http://www.speedtest.net)

Title: Re: What's Your Internet Speed/Reliability SATISFACTION?
Post by: superboyac on September 06, 2010, 11:16 PM

(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=23913.msg217099#msg217099))
This is the connection you get here in Paraguay for about 100 USD/month.

-Shades (September 06, 2010, 10:49 PM)

Oh Shnikey!  OK, Shades wins...I won't complain anymore.  That's a raw deal, man.

By the way, my parents have Cox...Cox is awesome.  From what I've seen, Cox has the fastest "normal" ISP service I've seen.  FIOS is faster, but it has fiber coming to the house.

Title: Re: What's Your Internet Speed/Reliability SATISFACTION?
Post by: superboyac on September 06, 2010, 11:18 PM

Anyone with At&T's U-verse?  Thoughts?

Title: Re: What's Your Internet Speed/Reliability SATISFACTION?
Post by: myarmor on September 07, 2010, 01:08 AM

I have a 12/2.5Mb cable and according to speedtests it delivers 12.3/2.7Mb (they have a bit of focus on actually delivering what you purchase,
hence they give it some extra uumph).

When downloading I tend to see about 1,65MB/s using Mass Downloader (not really sure about actual normal use upload).

Title: Re: What's Your Internet Speed/Reliability SATISFACTION?
Post by: nudone on September 07, 2010, 04:02 AM

i challenge Shades for worst connection (my upload is slower):

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i pay for a faster line but the local exchange can't provide it to my location. i once had them change it so i got twice the download speed - but with dropped connections about every minute, i.e. useless.

p.s.
and i now do a lot of web work, having to check websites and ftp stuff up and down all day - it's fantastic the amount of time i waste, waiting for things to complete.

edit:
can't complain, cranioscopical's got the worst deal. oh dear.

Title: Re: What's Your Internet Speed/Reliability SATISFACTION?
Post by: Deozaan on September 07, 2010, 04:05 AM

i challenge Shades for worst connection (my upload is slower):

-nudone (September 07, 2010, 04:02 AM)

You seem to have missed Cranioscopical's:

You guys think you have it tough?
and all for just $100/month  :(

-cranioscopical (September 06, 2010, 10:07 PM)

Same price as Shades', worse speeds than yours. (And look at that ping!)

Title: Re: What's Your Internet Speed/Reliability SATISFACTION?
Post by: nudone on September 07, 2010, 04:06 AM

yeah, i just realised before your post and edited mine.

cranioscopical. that is a really, really, sad connection.

Title: Re: What's Your Internet Speed/Reliability SATISFACTION?
Post by: Deozaan on September 07, 2010, 04:10 AM

yeah, i just realised before your post and edited mine.

cranioscopical. that is a really, really, sad connection.

-nudone (September 07, 2010, 04:06 AM)

Yeah I noticed that you had edited yours while I was typing mine up. . .  :-[

I had it worst on Friday at my parents' house. It was 0.23/0.22, ~500ms ping. But that was because I didn't know my parents' internet was limited so it got throttled to those speeds when I left an MMO Updater (essentially a bittorrent) running overnight.

Title: Re: What's Your Internet Speed/Reliability SATISFACTION?
Post by: tomos on September 07, 2010, 04:35 AM

my internet seems to confuse speedtest.net a little :)

Fist I got

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so I tried again and got

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I think the best actual download speeds I've seen were a little over 2MB/s. Connection is supposed to be 20MB/s and apparently is very good at street level but the cable leading up to the house is bad bad & needs to be replaced - still a lot better than many people here are getting.

Title: Re: What's Your Internet Speed/Reliability SATISFACTION?
Post by: Gothi[c] on September 07, 2010, 05:22 AM

Ok, I'll bite.

I've had DSL and Cable in many places, and my findings are that DSL can get you some packet loss under really high load (eg: torrents), but the normal uptime has always been extremely stable.
The advantage of DSL is that you have unbundled service in most countries (at least in the US and Belgium). Meaning, the company providing your physical line has to, by law, allow you to chose a different ISP. This is VERY important. Many people think they are stuck with something crappy like verizon, when in fact they can pick any ISP in the country offering dsl, including many good smaller ISP's.

When we lived in PA, we were with localisp (http://localisp.com/) - the advantage being that most of these smaller isp's don't have the TOS from hell. Verizon's TOS for example, last I checked, does not allow you to run any type of server (including game servers) or use third party voip. Not that they actually apply this in practice, but they are bastards for it nontheless.

With localisp I had 100% uptime. I ran a monitoring server from my connection and received alerts+logs when something was down, and in the few years we lived there it never happened. They also offered a redundant line which could serve as a backup if one goes down, for relatively cheap (If i want the same from comcast here i'll be broke in an instant). The only times things became unstable (read: packet loss) is when the upload bandwidth was consumed 100%. I solved that using QoS.

DSL was a lot slower, but it sure was magnitudes more stable.

I've had cable in the US from RCN and now Comcast Bussiness, both randomly cut out. When it's up, the connection is stable. Unlike dsl, using 100% upload does not cause packet loss, however, one day you may wake up to find your internet not working at all, when you call them they claim to be working on something or other,... I've experienced downtimes of >3 hours in the middle of the day on a monday. Bad mojo when you're in the middle of work, and rely on a connection to do your job.
If I were given the option again, I'd pick the uptime stability over the speed.

Interestingly, when I was in Belgium, the same story was repeated. I had DSL (belgacom) there and cable (telenet). The DSL service had very stable uptime, though gets funky when you max things out (need a good QoS setup in your router). Cable is stable when up, but more overall downtime. - That leads me to believe the phenomenon is inherit in the technologies used.

I haven't tried FIOS yet, it would be interesting to see how it compares in uptime versus speed.

Also, with cable your speed will vary up and down depending on where you live and the time of the day. (Everything is 'shared' with your neighbors so to speak) - This can work to your advantage when you live in the middle of nowhere, or disadvantage when you're in the city ;  while dsl lines are dedicated.

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PS: It's interesting to compare my speed and mouser's - same provider, same area, except he is more in the city than I am - (It's also a different plan, though not sure how much different)
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Title: Re: What's Your Internet Speed/Reliability SATISFACTION?
Post by: Renegade on September 07, 2010, 06:43 AM

...they are bastards for it nontheless...

-Gothi[c] (September 07, 2010, 05:22 AM)

:)

It's a requisite to being (big && (telco || bank || government || etc. etc. etc.) ) =p

Title: Re: What's Your Internet Speed/Reliability SATISFACTION?
Post by: Crush on September 07, 2010, 06:44 AM

VDSL50
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The speedtest differs a little bit from server to server, but the dl/ul-rate ist rather stable. The best ping was about 20ms till now.
I also have IPTV and think the settopbox reserves a lot of bandwith that can record 4 streams in parallel while watching a 5th.
A look into my modem-settings shows the maximum rates:
DSL Downstream: 51392 kBit/s
DSL Upstream:     10004 kBit/s
Perhaps it gets faster when I switch off the STB?

Title: Re: What's Your Internet Speed/Reliability SATISFACTION?
Post by: Renegade on September 07, 2010, 06:49 AM

Speed to Toronto:

(http://www.speedtest.net/result/943808109.png) (http://www.speedtest.net)

Dallas (where my main server is):

(http://www.speedtest.net/result/943809389.png) (http://www.speedtest.net)

To Seoul:

(http://www.speedtest.net/result/943810672.png) (http://www.speedtest.net)

It's actually been pretty good today. Yesterday was Hell.

Title: Re: What's Your Internet Speed/Reliability SATISFACTION?
Post by: y0himba on September 07, 2010, 07:47 AM

I have been nothing but happy with my service.  Rock solid, FAST, polite and knowledgeable LOCAL support.  I pay $59 for 10/1.5, and even with all the college kids in town, during prime time, I still get almost 100% of my rated speed.  It has been this way since I first got broadband cable in 1999.  We bought our house in 2007 in a small town 45 minutes from where I first got cable, and the connection stayed the same.

I have cable, phone, all movie channels, and a PVR through them for a total of $180 a month.  Not the fastest connection nor the least expensive, but I would rather have a solid, reliable connection with good support and pay a little extra.

(http://www.speedtest.net/result/943863585.png) (http://www.speedtest.net)

Title: Re: What's Your Internet Speed/Reliability SATISFACTION?
Post by: mrainey on September 07, 2010, 09:08 AM

Yesterday afternoon on Speedtest I recorded 12.82/2.13, this morning it's 19.93/2.13

This with Charter.

Title: Re: What's Your Internet Speed/Reliability SATISFACTION?
Post by: Carol Haynes on September 07, 2010, 10:10 AM

OK - I'll bite too:

Urealistic test ('cos 50 miles is pretty pointless on the net):

Manchester UK
(http://www.speedtest.net/result/944025206.png)

More realistic:

San Jose California
(http://www.speedtest.net/result/944028198.png)

Sad:

Perth, Australia
(http://www.speedtest.net/result/944031948.png) (using the appropriately named Server FastHit!!)

or

Toronto, Canada
(http://www.speedtest.net/result/944034844.png)

Strange that Vancover is quicker to the UK than Toronto:
(http://www.speedtest.net/result/944036267.png)

My main gripe is that upload speeds are totally pants - and there don't seem to be any UK providers that do better (unless someone can point me at one).

Title: Re: What's Your Internet Speed/Reliability SATISFACTION?
Post by: superboyac on September 07, 2010, 11:53 AM

You know what I would pay $100 or more a month for?  Internet access at FIOS speeds, and also a little portable hotspot device (like Sprint has now) which I can take with me wherever I go to get 3g/4G speeds for a laptop/phone.  If those two services could be bundled just like that (nothing else), I'd pay $100+ for it.

Title: Re: What's Your Internet Speed/Reliability SATISFACTION?
Post by: ljbirns on September 07, 2010, 01:29 PM

There has to be something wrong with these tests.  Here are two from two different servers in GB.  Must have more to do with the servers than with my ISP.


http://www.speedtest.net/result/944290743.png

http://www.speedtest.net/result/944298123.png

Title: Re: What's Your Internet Speed/Reliability SATISFACTION?
Post by: f0dder on September 07, 2010, 01:39 PM

ljbirns: the speed you get to test servers will vary depending on a lot of factors - generally, if hosted in a datacenter, a speedtest server will only be allocated "excess" bandwidth; if there's some heavy paid-for traffic going on, test-bandwidth will be down-prioritized. Also, there could be routing/peering concerns between ISPs.

Title: Re: What's Your Internet Speed/Reliability SATISFACTION?
Post by: ljbirns on September 07, 2010, 01:52 PM

FOdder

So then does  MY ISP speed only count from my ISP's  server to me .  The rest is just dumb luck. ?

Title: Re: What's Your Internet Speed/Reliability SATISFACTION?
Post by: app103 on September 07, 2010, 02:18 PM

(http://www.speedtest.net/result/944318714.png) (http://www.speedtest.net)

That is showing just slightly under the speeds I am paying for.

But it doesn't matter what that speed is, since I can't stay connected long enough to enjoy it. Anyone that has spent any decent amount of time in the DC IRC channel can tell you that my connection is highly unstable, worse than the worst dialup.

This is what I got when I told my ISP I was willing to pay for more bandwidth and upgraded my account from 768/128 to the next level. No matter how many times I call them to complain about the issue, they always say the same thing: Sorry, our fault, the problem is on our end, we'll fix it. Then I get a phone call 3 days later with a voice recording saying they fixed it, and they really didn't. I call back and complain, and they say the same thing again. It doesn't matter how many times I call, it's always the same. This has been going on for the last 2 years. I have basically given up trying to get them to fix the issue.

The way I see it these are my only options:

• pay more and upgrade to fios
• pay more and switch to cable
• downgrade back to 768/128
• deal with it, use a download manager like I used to on dialup, and try not to lose my mind

I am not willing to downgrade and watch youtube vids buffer all the time, I can't afford fios or cable (landlord won't give permission for fios any way), so the last option is about the only thing I can do at this point.  :(

Title: Re: What's Your Internet Speed/Reliability SATISFACTION?
Post by: f0dder on September 07, 2010, 02:22 PM

So then does  MY ISP speed only count from my ISP's  server to me .  The rest is just dumb luck. ?

-ljbirns (September 07, 2010, 01:52 PM)

Not exactly dumb luck, but yeah :) - there's no way your ISP can guarantee you'll get full bandwidth utilization to a remote server; the server might not be on a link that's fast enough, there might be traffic congestion, or you may be running through a slow route.

Title: Re: What's Your Internet Speed/Reliability SATISFACTION?
Post by: ljbirns on September 07, 2010, 03:21 PM

Well, at least I'm happy with Cox cable. BTW  I had FIOS when I lived in NY and it was VG, ( upgraded from DSL ) but I don't remember it as being any better than the cable I have now.

Title: Re: What's Your Internet Speed/Reliability SATISFACTION?
Post by: superboyac on September 07, 2010, 03:30 PM

Well, at least I'm happy with Cox cable. BTW  I had FIOS when I lived in NY and it was VG, ( upgraded from DSL ) but I don't remember it as being any better than the cable I have now.

-ljbirns (September 07, 2010, 03:21 PM)

Yeah, cox is great.  I think the only significant difference you would see is the upload speed.  FIOS should have more than Cox.

Title: Re: What's Your Internet Speed/Reliability SATISFACTION?
Post by: Mark0 on September 09, 2010, 08:09 PM

Line is mostly stable, but if I really maxx it out it sometimes dies, and I have to power-cycle my modem (and I have to wait a few minutes before turning back on, or it doesn't connect). Not sure exactly why it happens, but it's mostly if there's high bandwidth usage and a lot of connections - I suspect it's more a matter of unstable firmware than the raw copper not being good enough quality.

-f0dder (September 06, 2010, 01:25 PM)

Yes. Many modem+router combos get into big troubles when the NAT tables max out.

(http://www.speedtest.net/result/947393210.png)

This is with a 20/1 ADSL2+ connection. But I'm pretty happy, because I'm very far from the DSLAM. Some months ago I had to try a bunch a different modem+router, with various ADSL chipset, to find one that actually could mantain this speed in a reliable way. Manually altering the signal to noise ratio I can get another Mb or so, but sometimes it became less reliable.

Title: Re: What's Your Internet Speed/Reliability SATISFACTION?
Post by: Renegade on September 09, 2010, 09:38 PM

I have been nothing but happy with my service.  Rock solid, FAST, polite and knowledgeable LOCAL support.  I pay $59 for 10/1.5, and even with all the college kids in town, during prime time, I still get almost 100% of my rated speed.  It has been this way since I first got broadband cable in 1999.  We bought our house in 2007 in a small town 45 minutes from where I first got cable, and the connection stayed the same.

I have cable, phone, all movie channels, and a PVR through them for a total of $180 a month.  Not the fastest connection nor the least expensive, but I would rather have a solid, reliable connection with good support and pay a little extra.

(http://www.speedtest.net/result/943863585.png) (http://www.speedtest.net)

-y0himba (September 07, 2010, 07:47 AM)

A few extra dollars is worth it.

Problem is, a lot of the time you really have no idea what the actual quality of an ISP is, and by the time you've found out, you're already locked into a multiple-year contract. Unpleasant.

So when shelling out for a more expensive plan, unless you already know the ISP & quality, it's a gamble.

$180 is pretty high though. I suppose the phone and movie channels though make it much more reasonable. $50 for movies and $50 for phone? $80 for reliable broadband? Doesn't sound bad at all.

I remember years ago when Korea Telecom's broadband was total garbage. That's changed though. They're extremely good now. (They bought enough equipment for an entire country, and ended up buying from all different vendors because nobody could supply them with enough. As such, mismatches caused problems for them at the start.)

@app103 - Yuck. Sorry to hear that.

Title: Re: What's Your Internet Speed/Reliability SATISFACTION?
Post by: Cloq on September 09, 2010, 11:05 PM

DSL - 3mbps though the actual speed is roughly 2mbps

For the price I am paying for country dsl, in the city/town, you get 15mbps.  :(

Title: Re: What's Your Internet Speed/Reliability SATISFACTION?
Post by: Renegade on September 10, 2010, 01:57 AM

DSL - 3mbps though the actual speed is roughly 2mbps

For the price I am paying for country dsl, in the city/town, you get 15mbps.  :(

-Cloq (September 09, 2010, 11:05 PM)

Another reason why telcos need some kind of oversight/regulation. (Yes, on this issue I have some leftish tendencies.)

Title: Re: What's Your Internet Speed/Reliability SATISFACTION?
Post by: tomos on September 10, 2010, 04:21 AM

my internet seems to confuse speedtest.net a little :)

Fist I got
 (see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=23913.msg217127#msg217127))
so I tried again and got
 (see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=23913.msg217127#msg217127))
I think the best actual download speeds I've seen were a little over 2MB/s. Connection is supposed to be 20MB/s and apparently is very good at street level but the cable leading up to the house is bad bad & needs to be replaced - still a lot better than many people here are getting.

-tomos (September 07, 2010, 04:35 AM)

I get consistently huge download speeeds from speedtest.net - the lowest so far was Dublin with 85MB, lets see Moscow gets 190; Frankfurt (automatic choice of speedtest for my location) gets 258 today.

Lets see, is there anywhere else you can check your speeds - this site (http://www.broadbandspeedchecker.co.uk/) give me:
5656 Kbps / 935 Kbps
I've never noticed getting even that download speed 5.5MB but then I usually find download speed is related to wherever I'm downloading from...

Title: Re: What's Your Internet Speed/Reliability SATISFACTION?
Post by: Mark0 on September 10, 2010, 04:33 AM

Some antivirus / antimalware that "mess up" with the Internet traffic are known to cause strange results.

BTW, this is what I get form here via 3G network:

(http://www.speedtest.net/android/12064665.png)

Title: Re: What's Your Internet Speed/Reliability SATISFACTION?
Post by: Deozaan on September 12, 2010, 05:33 PM

Not sure how this happened since I'm paying for 5 down and I think ~0.75 up:

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Title: Re: What's Your Internet Speed/Reliability SATISFACTION?
Post by: alc on September 18, 2010, 09:44 AM

(http://www.speedtest.net/result/958336895.png) (http://speed test (http://www.speedtest.net))

Title: Re: What's Your Internet Speed/Reliability SATISFACTION?
Post by: CleverCat on September 19, 2010, 03:32 AM

nudone - I think I win!  ;D Cost is R369 pm (approx $50...) (includes adsl line rental) and sometimes, especially a Friday I get dialup speeds... >:(

(http://www.speedtest.net/result/959184219.png) (http://www.speedtest.net)

Title: Re: What's Your Internet Speed/Reliability SATISFACTION?
Post by: Stoic Joker on September 19, 2010, 08:55 AM

(http://www.speedtest.net/result/959441509.png) (http://www.speedtest.net)

I usually end up doing battle with my ISP once every few years - Company has changed names several times, but I've had the account for 12+ years. Connection is quite stable for the most part.

I'm paying for (and getting) a 3.0/512 line.

I decided to vote 4/5 this morning, because it went offline for most of last night.

Title: Re: What's Your Internet Speed/Reliability SATISFACTION?
Post by: Renegade on October 31, 2010, 09:50 PM

Today my Internet connection is blistering fast... relatively...

(http://www.speedtest.net/result/1012159249.png)

Sigh... I have to call these people and see if they can actually get it working. Our phone doesn't work with them either!

Title: Re: What's Your Internet Speed/Reliability SATISFACTION?
Post by: Renegade on November 01, 2010, 08:21 PM

Well, looks like the problem was outside the house with some wiring issues. Sigh...

(http://www.speedtest.net/result/1013479001.png)

Still not a blistering fast Korean connection, but pretty good. :)

I'll cross my fingers and hope that things keep up.

Title: Re: What's Your Internet Speed/Reliability SATISFACTION?
Post by: skwire on November 02, 2010, 11:03 AM

Here's mine.  Plenty fast and plenty stable.

(http://www.speedtest.net/result/1020708045.png) (http://www.speedtest.net)

Title: Re: What's Your Internet Speed/Reliability SATISFACTION?
Post by: superboyac on November 02, 2010, 11:13 AM

After reading gothic's post about ISP's, I have a question...

I have $50 to spend a month (maybe more if the ISP is great).  Other than the typical options which are your cable provider and landline providers, what other companies offer are in my area and how do I find them?  Please don't just say Google, because google's a mess.  How would you explore the alternatives?  Do any of you know of lesser-known companies that are good?

Title: Re: What's Your Internet Speed/Reliability SATISFACTION?
Post by: Renegade on November 02, 2010, 08:46 PM

After reading gothic's post about ISP's, I have a question...

I have $50 to spend a month (maybe more if the ISP is great).  Other than the typical options which are your cable provider and landline providers, what other companies offer are in my area and how do I find them?  Please don't just say Google, because google's a mess.  How would you explore the alternatives?  Do any of you know of lesser-known companies that are good?

-superboyac (November 02, 2010, 11:13 AM)

I've found that asking knowledgeable people near you is usually the best way to go. And asking as many as possible.

(http://www.speedtest.net/result/1014928143.png)

Looks like I spoke too soon... My speeds the other day only lasted a very short time...

Title: Re: What's Your Internet Speed/Reliability SATISFACTION?
Post by: Gothi[c] on November 05, 2010, 07:33 PM

Please don't just say Google, because google's a mess.  How would you explore the alternatives?  Do any of you know of lesser-known companies that are good?

Back then I actually did find localisp via google, but not easily. It took about a week of searching using non-obvious queries... That was quite a while ago. It may be even harder now, especially since the smaller companies are slowly vanishing or getting swallowed by bigger ones. The one major tip I could give you is to not confine your search within your area. The company I went with was actually from out-of-state.

Title: Re: What's Your Internet Speed/Reliability SATISFACTION?
Post by: JavaJones on November 17, 2010, 02:11 AM

I don't find speedtest.net's results to be the most reliable either, but sometimes they sure can look good!

(http://www.speedtest.net/result/1033675205.png) (http://www.speedtest.net)

That's from a server in San Jose, but oddly I got a result around 4mbit/s download (similar upload) to a server in SF upon repeated attempts. So clearly the server matters *a lot*. In fact the SF result is so bad, I'd have to guess either a temporary bandwidth condition on the part of that test site, or some throttling on their end (I'm leaning this way). Here's a more realistic result from NY, cross country, not too bad:

(http://www.speedtest.net/result/1033688388.png) (http://www.speedtest.net)

and Baltimore, MD surprisingly good:

(http://www.speedtest.net/result/1033688827.png) (http://www.speedtest.net)

In reality I have a 22/5 connection, Comcast Business Class. It's $100/mo here in San Francisco. For the bandwidth I get, I have few complaints. Uptime is very good overall. And with Business Class they don't mess with my connection in any way - unthrottled, no protocol limiting, no bandwidth limits, nothing. I've downloaded over 1TB in a month before, and not a peep from them. :D

I usually use SpeakEasy (an ISP) for their speed test  (http://speakeasy.net/speedtest/) and find it more consistent and realistic. But they only have US test servers, and there's no image to link to, you just have to copy/paste the text results like this:
San Francisco Server:
Download Speed: 46388 kbps (5798.5 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 7523 kbps (940.4 KB/sec transfer rate)

New York Server:
Download Speed: 7239 kbps (904.9 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 3927 kbps (490.9 KB/sec transfer rate)

Sometimes even a remote site will surprise you.
Washington DC:
Download Speed: 34149 kbps (4268.6 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 4234 kbps (529.3 KB/sec transfer rate)

Anyway, I'm pretty happy with what I've got. My greatest condolences to those in this thread with really bad connections, ouch! But I guess it just means fewer inane Youtube videos mostly. ;)

- Oshyan

Title: Re: What's Your Internet Speed/Reliability SATISFACTION?
Post by: Renegade on November 17, 2010, 03:33 AM

22/5?

I got that here too! 22 kb/h down, and 5 kb/h up. On a good day.

(Actually, it's not too far of the mark literally. I get about 0.10 kbps up normally.)

Got a support ticket in with the ISP now. They'll look at it in the next day or 2 then call me back.

I have GOT to get a cable connection on top of this ADSL connection. I'd heard about the Internet being bad here, but never expected it to be THIS bad... Sigh... ;(

But really, I'm jealous. And ready to cry... ;(

Title: Re: What's Your Internet Speed/Reliability SATISFACTION?
Post by: Renegade on November 20, 2010, 11:57 PM

Cross fingers... Hope this is the solution...

After calling tech support a few times, I finally went out and bought a new modem/router.

(http://www.speedtest.net/result/1038957871.png)

I just hope this keeps up...

Title: Re: What's Your Internet Speed/Reliability SATISFACTION?
Post by: mahesh2k on June 10, 2011, 06:48 AM

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Beat This Speed  :D

Title: Re: What's Your Internet Speed/Reliability SATISFACTION?
Post by: Renegade on June 10, 2011, 07:05 AM

(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=23913.msg251731#msg251731))
Beat This Speed  :D

-mahesh2k (June 10, 2011, 06:48 AM)

Without disconnecting?

Title: Re: What's Your Internet Speed/Reliability SATISFACTION?
Post by: Deozaan on June 10, 2011, 07:10 AM

(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=23913.msg251731#msg251731))
Beat This Speed  :D

-mahesh2k (June 10, 2011, 06:48 AM)

The scary thing is that you're faster than nearly 25% of India!

Title: Re: What's Your Internet Speed/Reliability SATISFACTION?
Post by: 40hz on June 10, 2011, 08:00 AM

I have ADSL from SNET... which became SBCGlobal... which became AT&T.

I'm generally happy with it since outages are few and far between, and what throttling they may or may not do is pretty subtle.

ADSL Runs about $20/mo for standard speeds. Higher "business" speeds are available for a higher monthly rate.  Cable is about $40, and a T1 goes between $300-$500 depending on where you are; who you get it from; and what additional features (managed router, boundary security, VoIP, etc) come bundled with the package.  Sprint's T1 has traditionally been the cheapest offering for us when it's locally available.

Rather than use artificial tests I use the download time for a CD ISO as a rough 'utility' for testing line speeds. Most ADSL connections in my area need about 1 hour and twenty minutes to grab a 650mb CD image. Optimum Online cable does it in about 15-20 minutes. And a client T1 in a lightly trafficked office can do it in about 65.

None of these are scientific tests, but I think they're fair representations of what people in my area can reasonably expect performance-wise in 'real world' terms.

As you can see the performance isn't stellar. But it's not bad for most purposes.

I'll give it a 3 out of 5 rating for my area.  8)

Addenda:

Just for completeness, here's my speed per speedtest.net

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And the related quality test from the cousin ping.net site:

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Note: I generally prefer using the MySpeed tests available here (http://myspeed.visualware.com/index.php).

They're more detailed and possibly more accurate. At least according to the techs from the various ISPs and VoIP providers I've asked. At any rate, this is what they all seem to use when they're on a client site. See results for my home connection below:

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According to this, a 650Mb ISO file should take approximately 71.5 minutes on this connection - which is pretty close to my previously mentioned ballpark average of 80 minutes for most people on a similar connection in my area.

 8)

Title: Re: What's Your Internet Speed/Reliability SATISFACTION?
Post by: Stoic Joker on June 10, 2011, 11:20 AM

Most ADSL connections in my area need about 1 hour and twenty minutes to grab a 650mb CD image. Optimum Online cable does it in about 15-20 minutes. And a client T1 in a lightly trafficked office can do it in about 5.

-40hz (June 10, 2011, 08:00 AM)

Um... 5? ...minutes? On a T1, which is only 1.5Mb. We've got a pair of T1's for a total of 3.0Mb both ways which works great ... but it ain't gonna pull a full CD in 5min. ...Unless it's a zipped copy of a blank one... :)

Title: Re: What's Your Internet Speed/Reliability SATISFACTION?
Post by: 40hz on June 10, 2011, 11:31 AM

Most ADSL connections in my area need about 1 hour and twenty minutes to grab a 650mb CD image. Optimum Online cable does it in about 15-20 minutes. And a client T1 in a lightly trafficked office can do it in about 5.

-40hz (June 10, 2011, 08:00 AM)

Um... 5? ...minutes? On a T1, which is only 1.5Mb. We've got a pair of T1's for a total of 3.0Mb both ways which works great ... but it ain't gonna pull a full CD in 5min. ...Unless it's a zipped copy of a blank one... :)

-Stoic Joker (June 10, 2011, 11:20 AM)

Yoiks! My bloody iPhone dropped the 6 in front of 65 minutes for the T1! Fixing it now. Thanks.  (Gotta stop posting to the forum off my phone. God do I hate touchscreens. Bad medicine. Give me a chicklet keyboard any time. ) :-[

Title: Re: What's Your Internet Speed/Reliability SATISFACTION?
Post by: Stoic Joker on June 10, 2011, 11:54 AM

^Okay, 65 sounds better...You're forgiven...Except for the iPhone part.  :D

Title: Re: What's Your Internet Speed/Reliability SATISFACTION?
Post by: Renegade on June 10, 2011, 05:25 PM

^Okay, 65 sounds better...You're forgiven...Except for the iPhone part.  :D

-Stoic Joker (June 10, 2011, 11:54 AM)

In fairness, I have the same kind of problem on my Android. The problem is the form factor. It's meant for 10 year old girls, and not grown men with thumbs that are a half the size of the screen width. Chicklet keyboards are an improvement though. I wish my phone had one. I'd also like it if it had a slide out keyboard and the keyboard part were the heavily weighted one. (Better for balance.)

Title: Re: What's Your Internet Speed/Reliability SATISFACTION?
Post by: JavaJones on June 10, 2011, 05:45 PM

I'm now on Sonic.net bonded ADSL2+, a change from the Comcast Business I had when I posted earlier in this thread. I moved to another place in San Francisco and even though I could have stuck with Comcast Business, I just really didn't like supporting them anymore. I've very seldom had to deal with their support, the few times I did it wasn't great, but it was more about just disliking Comcast as a company.

The other factor was that in my new place I finally had the option of using a different ISP that could offer theoretically equivalent speeds. At my old place Comcast was pretty much the only option above 6mbit, whereas here I have 2 other possibilities with significant bandwidth - Sonic.net's "Fusion" broadband (http://sonic.net/solutions/home/internet/fusion/) and Monkeybrains wireless (http://monkeybrains.net/wireless.html).

I only found out about Monkeybrains after I moved and had already setup my connection with Sonic. But it does sound intriguing - up to 20mbit/s *symmetric* through local long distance wireless. Unfortunately after talking with them a bit it sounded like the actual *amount* of data I transfer would be a potential issue at the low price they're offering to residential customers ($35/mo paid quarterly for up to 20mbit symmetric!). Even going up to $100/mo it was still questionable that they would want me as a customer, heh.

Fortunately Sonic's deal is fairly good too, and surprisingly they actually *reduced* their prices after I got service. They're also month-to-month, so aside the cost of equipment ($99 up front), if you opt out of install services, you're only out of pocket for the months of service you actually get, no contract. I can cancel any time. Comcast Business wanted a *3 year* agreement! Granted if you move to a location where Comcast *can't* provide service they'll let you out of the agreement without penalty, but still.

So what I get with Sonic is 2 phone lines with unlimited long distance (being live phone lines though they do tack on about $15/mo total for phone-related taxes and fees, unfortunately), and each line gives a theoretical 20mbit download, 2.5mbit upload speed. In practice it's more like 30mbit download between the two of them, and about 1.5mbit upload. There's a mode called "Annex-M" that trades some download bandwidth for upload and I currently have that enabled, giving me about 22mbit down and 3mbit up, which is pretty nice overall. That's pretty much what Comcast was offering on paper, though they routinely delivered more than that. But Sonic is a bit cheaper ($80/mo before taxes and fees) and, as I said, no contract, plus they're a *way* better company and local (their main office is about an hour away from here, my home town in fact).

The one problem I've had with the service is the combination mode, router, wireless device that they provide. It's the only one available for bonded ADSL2+ (from Comtrend) and it works ok as a modem, maybe even a router, but when you add large wireless use on top of it (e.g. if you're using it as the main router and there are multiple wireless clients trying to copy files between each other *and* do large web downloads at the same time), then it seems to overheat and crap out. Fortunately Sonic was nice enough to help me bridge to another wireless router I have with Tomato firmware on it, and now everything is working smoothly. I think just taking some of the load off the Comtrend helped it cope with its heat/CPU/memory load. I wish there were a non-combination device available to support this service, just a "dumb" modem, but apparently that's not where the money is now because nobody seems to make one.

So overall I'm pretty happy with broadband in San Francisco, between the 3 places I've lived here all over the city, but I must say many neighborhoods are still without reasonable competition to Comcast due to the limitations of POTS-based connections. Verizon is not our phone provider here and so FOIS is not an option unfortunately. It sounds amazing though, I'd love to have that available (though I don't like Verizon as a company either). Comcast admittedly does a decent job with bandwidth, and if you're savvy to the consumer line limitations and don't care about service bundling (e.g. TV, phone), then you can get an unlimited connection for a fairly palatable monthly sum. It's the long contracts on the business side that put you off, but for what they give you it's a tough call - after all, you're not likely to want slower bandwidth in a year or two, are you? And if you know that other systems aren't likely to compete in the area any time soon (which is sadly true), it's not such a bad gamble, unless you run low on funds and find yourself unable to justify the monthly fee in which case canceling still incurs a hefty penalty. Yeah, I don't like Comcast, despite their fast connections. :P

Ultimately I'm quite happy to be able to get good bandwidth at a reasonable price from a company like Sonic.net that I like and respect. That's a rarity these days, regardless of how much bandwidth you have. I'd love a little more upload bandwidth though...

- Oshyan

Title: Re: What's Your Internet Speed/Reliability SATISFACTION?
Post by: mahesh2k on June 11, 2011, 02:51 AM

(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=23913.msg251731#msg251731))
Beat This Speed  :D

-mahesh2k (June 10, 2011, 06:48 AM)

The scary thing is that you're faster than nearly 25% of India!

-Deozaan (June 10, 2011, 07:10 AM)

I wonder what they use for that much slow speed.  :D I'm using this USB stick (http://www.vodafone.in/internet/pages/usbstick.aspx) to access  the internet.

Title: Re: What's Your Internet Speed/Reliability SATISFACTION?
Post by: Stoic Joker on June 11, 2011, 10:01 AM

^Okay, 65 sounds better...You're forgiven...Except for the iPhone part.  :D

-Stoic Joker (June 10, 2011, 11:54 AM)

In fairness, I have the same kind of problem on my Android. The problem is the form factor. It's meant for 10 year old girls, and not grown men with thumbs that are a half the size of the screen width.

-Renegade (June 10, 2011, 05:25 PM)

Right, understood. Typos are normal/human/part of life (is perfectly O-Tay). But... Having an iPhone, Well now that's a (Ehm...) Curable Condition. ;)

Chicklet keyboards are an improvement though. I wish my phone had one. I'd also like it if it had a slide out keyboard and the keyboard part were the heavily weighted one. (Better for balance.)

-Renegade (June 10, 2011, 05:25 PM)

Being that I just got my first one a few months back (HTC WMP7 Arrive) I am new to the whole smart phone game. And I do find myself using the slide-out KB more than the on screen one. Not so much because of a scale issue, as they really are about the same. But more because of a layout issue; the slide-out has a much more familiar feel to it.

I'm really just surprised that I've gone this long without wanting to throw it out a window. Especially considering that I hated them to start with and was looking for an excuse to toss the thing when first I opened the box.

Title: Re: What's Your Internet Speed/Reliability SATISFACTION?
Post by: 40hz on June 11, 2011, 11:15 AM

^I sometimes think the main reason why Apple prices it's products they way they do is to make you think twice before tossing them through a second story bedroom window onto your driveway.

Which is more than I can say for my nephew's Asus EeePC when it started giving him "big stones" one otherwise quiet Sunday afternoon.  ;D

Title: Re: What's Your Internet Speed/Reliability SATISFACTION?
Post by: Deozaan on June 22, 2011, 12:56 AM

Speedtest.net recently overhauled their website. Now you can create an account to track your speed tests over time, and do other things.

Such as Speed Waves.

A speed wave is a gamification of speedtest.net where a bunch of people test their speeds and it compares them and you get "badges" for being fastest or having the biggest improvement, etc. Let's all try out the DC Speed wave I created!

http://www.speedtest.net/wave/645a30064de33271

Title: Re: What's Your Internet Speed/Reliability SATISFACTION?
Post by: Renegade on June 22, 2011, 01:53 AM

I'm depressed...

Title: Re: What's Your Internet Speed/Reliability SATISFACTION?
Post by: tomos on June 22, 2011, 02:24 AM

A speed wave is a gamification of speedtest.net where a bunch of people test their speeds and it compares them and you get "badges" for being fastest or having the biggest improvement, etc. Let's all try out the DC Speed wave I created!

http://www.speedtest.net/wave/645a30064de33271

-Deozaan (June 22, 2011, 12:56 AM)

I didnt register first, but then clicked login beside my result and registered via that - it updated my result with my login name :up:

Title: Re: What's Your Internet Speed/Reliability SATISFACTION?
Post by: tomos on June 22, 2011, 02:26 AM

I'm depressed...

-Renegade (June 22, 2011, 01:53 AM)

is that you at the bottom of the list...
( with the sad panda and the loser badges :( )


edit/ if it's any consolation, you've got better upload speeds than deozaan

Title: Re: What's Your Internet Speed/Reliability SATISFACTION?
Post by: Renegade on June 22, 2011, 02:41 AM

I'm depressed...

-Renegade (June 22, 2011, 01:53 AM)

is that you at the bottom of the list...
( with the sad panda and the loser badges :( )


edit/ if it's any consolation, you've got better upload speeds than deozaan

-tomos (June 22, 2011, 02:26 AM)

Yes. This is a very sad panda...  (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/esmileys/gen3/1Small/20.gif)

Or if you look left, this is a very sad puppy... (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/esmileys/gen3/1Small/20.gif)

Sad, sad puppy... (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/esmileys/gen3/1Small/20.gif)

Title: Re: What's Your Internet Speed/Reliability SATISFACTION?
Post by: Deozaan on June 22, 2011, 03:17 AM

I'm pretty happy with mine. It's not the fastest connection available, but considering I'm paying for 5 Mb down and 0.5 up, I'm happy to getting more than I'm paying for. :Thmbsup:

(http://www.speedtest.net/result/1352536591.png) (http://www.speedtest.net/wave/645a30064de33271)

I need to stop retesting my speeds though. I keep bringing the average down...  :-[

Title: Re: What's Your Internet Speed/Reliability SATISFACTION?
Post by: nosh on June 22, 2011, 03:52 AM

I just beat someone to last place.  ;D

Title: Re: What's Your Internet Speed/Reliability SATISFACTION?
Post by: Renegade on June 22, 2011, 08:03 AM

I just beat someone to last place.  ;D

-nosh (June 22, 2011, 03:52 AM)

That would be me...

My nickname for my Internet connection is the "assie shiternet". Got one for yours? :D :P

Title: Re: What's Your Internet Speed/Reliability SATISFACTION?
Post by: Renegade on June 22, 2011, 08:08 AM

And I've signed up now with "Renegade Mind" as my nickname there so I don't look so anonymous, and so that people can laugh at and ridicule me for my pathetic Internet speeds...  :(

Title: Re: What's Your Internet Speed/Reliability SATISFACTION?
Post by: Renegade on June 22, 2011, 08:13 AM

A funny observation...

The red flag badge there is for the first person from a country to do the test. Note how many there are!

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Title: Re: What's Your Internet Speed/Reliability SATISFACTION?
Post by: nosh on June 22, 2011, 10:07 AM

My nickname for my Internet connection is the "assie shiternet". Got one for yours? :D :P

Inter... NOT!  8)  :P

Title: Re: What's Your Internet Speed/Reliability SATISFACTION?
Post by: KynloStephen66515 on June 22, 2011, 10:13 AM

Heres mine.  Just done the test on DC's SpeedWave page :)

(http://www.speedtest.net/result/1353020206.png)

Title: Re: What's Your Internet Speed/Reliability SATISFACTION?
Post by: Renegade on June 22, 2011, 10:55 AM

@nosh - You make me laugh~!  ;D

@Stephen - You make me sick~!  :huh: ( :) )

Title: Re: What's Your Internet Speed/Reliability SATISFACTION?
Post by: KynloStephen66515 on June 22, 2011, 01:37 PM

@Stephen - You make me sick~!  :huh: ( :) )

-Renegade (June 22, 2011, 10:55 AM)

haha  :Thmbsup:

Title: Re: What's Your Internet Speed/Reliability SATISFACTION?
Post by: Shades on June 22, 2011, 05:08 PM

At least I beat Nosh...  :(

Title: Re: What's Your Internet Speed/Reliability SATISFACTION?
Post by: Deozaan on June 22, 2011, 05:31 PM

At least I beat Nosh...  :(

-Shades (June 22, 2011, 05:08 PM)

Not by much...  :(

Title: Re: What's Your Internet Speed/Reliability SATISFACTION?
Post by: steeladept on June 23, 2011, 12:06 AM

Didn't capture the original result, but here are the numbers -
 
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Okay, I cheated - I did this from work (my internet is down at home at the moment)....Still, it is pretty good

Title: Re: What's Your Internet Speed/Reliability SATISFACTION?
Post by: Renegade on June 23, 2011, 01:15 AM

Didn't capture the original result, but here are the numbers -
  (see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=23913.msg253002#msg253002))
Okay, I cheated - I did this from work (my internet is down at home at the moment)....Still, it is pretty good

-steeladept (June 23, 2011, 12:06 AM)

Are you looking to get people to hate you? :P

(Just kidding~!)

Title: Re: What's Your Internet Speed/Reliability SATISFACTION?
Post by: mahesh2k on June 23, 2011, 05:45 AM

How many of you use USB Data cards or stick ? I would like to see if you can beat my speed. :P

Title: Re: What's Your Internet Speed/Reliability SATISFACTION?
Post by: KynloStephen66515 on June 23, 2011, 09:47 AM

How many of you use USB Data cards or stick ? I would like to see if you can beat my speed. :P

-mahesh2k (June 23, 2011, 05:45 AM)

I have no credit on my mobile broadband dongle, but when I last checked the speed it was around 6MB/s Down 0.8MB/s Up

Title: Re: What's Your Internet Speed/Reliability SATISFACTION?
Post by: JavaJones on June 25, 2011, 12:35 PM

I kind of don't think it's fair or useful to have results *from other servers* posted. Aren't we talking about home Internet speeds here? Or am I confused about some of the tests in the results list now? Stephen, for example, has 5 tests, it says Virgin Media as ISP, but shows "upload speed more than doubles download speed" as a badge with much different results from those shown. I guess it shows the best overall result? But again that result is from a server I think, not a personal net connection. :P

- Oshyan

Title: Re: What's Your Internet Speed/Reliability SATISFACTION?
Post by: Deozaan on June 25, 2011, 12:38 PM

If you hover over the badge it will (generally) show you the stats that gave that badge.

You can re-test as many times as you'd like, and it will display your best test on the lineup.

Title: Re: What's Your Internet Speed/Reliability SATISFACTION?
Post by: wr975 on June 25, 2011, 12:59 PM

(http://www.speedtest.net/result/1357695742.png)
That's in Austria, ISP Blizznet / Wien Energie. I pay for 30 Mb down/up EUR 30,- (USD 42) a month. No limits. I am in heaven. :)

Using two connections I usually get my 30 Mb upload.

Title: Re: What's Your Internet Speed/Reliability SATISFACTION?
Post by: JavaJones on June 25, 2011, 01:02 PM

Yeah, I saw the info about the badge which is part of what tipped me off to Stephen's odd results (one of his badges shows dramatically different upload/download results). I did realize that his comment wasn't about using a server, just about the DC SpeedWave. But I'm still confused as to why his results vary so dramatically, and I'm guessing that the results are tied to the account you're logged-in to, not the or computer or even location. Hence my original theory that one could e.g. log in to a remote server at a large data center and run the speed test while logged-in and get some insane server-to-server results just skewing everything, heh. Of course maybe this is all just sour grapes since I lost 1st place. ;)

wr975: Awesome! I really wish we had more high-speed symmetric options in the US.

- Oshyan

Title: Re: What's Your Internet Speed/Reliability SATISFACTION?
Post by: Deozaan on June 25, 2011, 01:14 PM

I pay for 30 Mb down/up EUR 30,- (USD 42) a month. No limits. I am in heaven. :)

-wr975 (June 25, 2011, 12:59 PM)

That's really nice!  I'm currently paying $43/mo for my 5 Mb down and 0.5 Mb up, and I get throttled if I go over limits (though the limits are reasonable enough that I've only gone over them once AFAIK).

Title: Re: What's Your Internet Speed/Reliability SATISFACTION?
Post by: steeladept on June 25, 2011, 02:07 PM

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Are you looking to get people to hate you? :P

(Just kidding~!)

-Renegade (June 23, 2011, 01:15 AM)

Yeah, well, my home speed is about half your speed I would bet (can't test it, my home machine is down with a dead HD - waiting for the new one so I can rebuild it and try.  Probably died from the same thing that killed the internet that day).  I think my best scores then were somewhere around Deo's score or maybe a little lower.  :-\

Title: Re: What's Your Internet Speed/Reliability SATISFACTION?
Post by: nosh on June 25, 2011, 03:45 PM

I pay for 30 Mb down/up EUR 30,- (USD 42) a month. No limits.

-wr975 (June 25, 2011, 12:59 PM)

That's awesome! I pay around $25 and get 1/30th the speed!

But I do wonder what people use these seriously fast connections for... I source 90% of my TV viewing from the net and barely have time to view everything.

Mahesh, I have a Tata Photon stick as backup should the MTNL connection go on the fritz. I've only had to use it once - it was faster than my wired connection, IIRC.

Title: Re: What's Your Internet Speed/Reliability SATISFACTION?
Post by: Renegade on June 25, 2011, 05:38 PM

Yeah, well, my home speed is about half your speed I would bet (can't test it, my home machine is down with a dead HD - waiting for the new one so I can rebuild it and try.  Probably died from the same thing that killed the internet that day).  I think my best scores then were somewhere around Deo's score or maybe a little lower.  :-\

-steeladept (June 25, 2011, 02:07 PM)

Ouch. That's gotta hurt. I just want to claw my eyes out sometimes. It's really frustrating whenever I need to upload anything. 0.02 Mbps isn't exactly quick when I need to upload a few hundred MB to a server. :(

Title: Re: What's Your Internet Speed/Reliability SATISFACTION?
Post by: wr975 on June 27, 2011, 09:41 AM

My provider runs a special until end of July. 100 Mbit up/down unlimited for EUR 35,- (USD 50). I don't really need it, but for just EUR 5,- more?!? That's a temptation I couldn't resist.  :-[

(http://www.speedtest.net/result/1359920947.png)

(http://www.speedtest.net/result/1359924922.png)

I can't find a speedtest.net server supporting this upload speed. :)

But I do wonder what people use these seriously fast connections for

Mirroring the Internet? :)

I agree. Nobody needs such speed. For me it was like paying the same, but getting more, so it would be stupid not to get it. Six months ago I had 12/7 Mbit for EUR 30,- and that was pretty nice. But then my house got fiber-optic connection and I could change to this insane provider. Austria is a bit "underdeveloped" in matters of broadband Internet, so they're really pushing it to the extreme.

I like to download US shows like Idol, Got Talent, ... and it's nice to download 2 GB episodes in a couple of minutes, but that's about it. Sharing large files (1080p videos from my camera) and online backups are also possible.

Title: Re: What's Your Internet Speed/Reliability SATISFACTION?
Post by: mahesh2k on June 27, 2011, 10:31 AM

Tata Photon stick has less speed than vodafone here(i guess they have good coverage in mumbai only). Vodafone stick gives me speed of about 1Mbps-2Mbps in city circle and 4-8kbps outside the city(which you can see in my earlier reply).

But I do wonder what people use these seriously fast connections for

Please donate/divert your extra bandwidth here.  ;D

Title: Re: What's Your Internet Speed/Reliability SATISFACTION?
Post by: rgdot on June 27, 2011, 10:52 AM

Canada remains a joke compared to the rest of the developed world.
That's all I am going to say about that  :P

Title: Re: What's Your Internet Speed/Reliability SATISFACTION?
Post by: nosh on June 27, 2011, 11:42 AM

Canada remains a joke compared to the rest of the developed world.
That's all I am going to say about that  :P

-rgdot (June 27, 2011, 10:52 AM)

Seriously? I remember going online from a public library in Toronto, it was a blazing fast connection, and this was almost a decade back! Maybe Canada used up all its bandwidth. :P

Title: Re: What's Your Internet Speed/Reliability SATISFACTION?
Post by: Renegade on June 27, 2011, 12:03 PM

Nobody needs those speeds? Speak for yourself. I want my digital heroin, and I want it NOW~! :P

Well, if Canada is a joke for Internet speeds, we're still good for a laugh or two here in Australia.

Title: Re: What's Your Internet Speed/Reliability SATISFACTION?
Post by: Renegade on June 27, 2011, 12:07 PM

And speaking of the developed world, I've had much better luck in the developing and 3rd world for Internet speeds. By a wide margin. Just my own observations though.

Title: Re: What's Your Internet Speed/Reliability SATISFACTION?
Post by: mahesh2k on June 27, 2011, 12:08 PM

AFAIK, canadian ISP's started limiting users on data restricted plans on fair usage policy since 2009.

Same thing started here by airtel, they're limiting folks on bandwidth. I wonder what happened to scalability in business, i mean each year number of subscribers grow but still instead of working on capacity they're adding restrictions on data and calls ? how about increasing capacity of server and network ? I doubt they'll think this way. Rest of the Indian ISP's(like BSNL/You/Hathway etc) also limiting users on fair usage policy because they want to make more money from data-limited service. It's not that network/infrastructure is short, it's about monies :P

Title: Re: What's Your Internet Speed/Reliability SATISFACTION?
Post by: f0dder on July 17, 2011, 05:58 PM

I agree. Nobody needs such speed.

-wr975 (June 27, 2011, 09:41 AM)

I disagree - if enough people had that kind of internet speed, interesting new software could be developed. Like, distributed backups fast enough to be usable...

Title: Re: What's Your Internet Speed/Reliability SATISFACTION?
Post by: Paul Keith on September 16, 2011, 02:36 AM

And speaking of the developed world, I've had much better luck in the developing and 3rd world for Internet speeds. By a wide margin. Just my own observations though.

-Renegade (June 27, 2011, 12:07 PM)

Can you elaborate on this sentence? This seems interesting. Do you mean the general net speed was faster or were the better plans simply cheaper?

Title: Re: What's Your Internet Speed/Reliability SATISFACTION?
Post by: Renegade on September 16, 2011, 04:11 AM

And speaking of the developed world, I've had much better luck in the developing and 3rd world for Internet speeds. By a wide margin. Just my own observations though.

-Renegade (June 27, 2011, 12:07 PM)

Can you elaborate on this sentence? This seems interesting. Do you mean the general net speed was faster or were the better plans simply cheaper?

-Paul Keith (September 16, 2011, 02:36 AM)

Both actually.

I remember the Internet speeds at hotels I was staying at in Vietnam in Ho Chi Minh City and in Long Xing (way out in the country side) were both better than what I was getting at home. Similarly, connection speeds when I was in Cambodia (near Angkor) were better.

Korea? Well. Enough said. They're getting 1 Gbps next year. It'll probably be something like $50. I had a slow connection -- about $25~$30 or so for 10 Mbps. The 100 Mbps was the same price about, but my speeds were already so fast that I never needed to bother upgrading.

Now, my Internet speeds have improved dramatically recently, and I have even seen 800 kbps. But I saw 1.5 Mbps in Long Xing, and 2 Mbps in Ho Chi Minh.

I remember not being able to get above 50 kbps while at hotels in the US in 2005 and 2006 where I was paying an ungodly amount PER DAY for access. On more recent visits, things seemed to be much better though. Still, I was rather disappointed considering what I was paying.

Here, in Australia, I'm paying 2x as much for far less than I was getting in Korea, but Korea is probably a bad example as it's the most wired country on the planet.

Living in Penang, and island in Malaysia, speeds were unpredictable, and unreliable. 2 Mbps one day, then 80 kbps the next. Day after that, outage for 4 hours. Usually it was pretty good, but it had days that were just not fun. Just all over the place. That was with Penangfon though. Pricing was very cheap at about RM 800 a year, or about USD 23 a month (IIRC). Considering that I was pretty much out in the boonies just outside Batu Ferringhi and surrounded by ocean and jungle for the most part, on an island, with monkeys running around all over the place, and then thinking that I'm now in the second largest city in Australia, and very close to the center of the city, erm... I would have expected, well, something different.

But, the NBN will save the day~! ;D :P

(It's a bit of a controversy here -- it's a national infrastructure project for broadband.)

Title: Re: What's Your Internet Speed/Reliability SATISFACTION?
Post by: kyrathaba on September 16, 2011, 06:42 AM

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Yes, it's pretty pitiful.

Title: Re: What's Your Internet Speed/Reliability SATISFACTION?
Post by: Renegade on September 16, 2011, 07:20 AM

(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=23913.msg261982#msg261982))
Yes, it's pretty pitiful.

-kyrathaba (September 16, 2011, 06:42 AM)

I have a horrible upload speed as well. I can never seem to get above 85 kbps, and usually under 50 kbps. Which is very painful for Dropbox, which Doc and I use extensively for The Doc Report. It's also painful for FTP, but there I really only need to consider myself.

BTW - I still love that "while(! dead_horse){beat}"! :D

Title: Re: What's Your Internet Speed/Reliability SATISFACTION?
Post by: KynloStephen66515 on September 16, 2011, 09:24 AM

(http://www.speedtest.net/result/1486084686.png)

...Might seem fast, but I pay for 2x that lol :(

Title: Re: What's Your Internet Speed/Reliability SATISFACTION?
Post by: Renegade on September 16, 2011, 09:30 AM

(http://www.speedtest.net/result/1486084686.png)

...Might seem fast, but I pay for 2x that lol :(

-Stephen66515 (September 16, 2011, 09:24 AM)

I would pay double what I'm paying now for that! I think that I'd need to pay around $400 a month to get even remotely close to that. (From the last time I looked...)

Title: Re: What's Your Internet Speed/Reliability SATISFACTION?
Post by: KynloStephen66515 on September 16, 2011, 09:36 AM

(http://www.speedtest.net/result/1486084686.png)

...Might seem fast, but I pay for 2x that lol :(

-Stephen66515 (September 16, 2011, 09:24 AM)

I would pay double what I'm paying now for that! I think that I'd need to pay around $400 a month to get even remotely close to that. (From the last time I looked...)

-Renegade (September 16, 2011, 09:30 AM)

Works out here (For the 100meg fiber optic connection) + TV (Minus Sports and Movies) and Phoneline (With unlimited weekend calls to landlines, and free calls all day every day to mobiles on the same ISP network) at around £40/month (GBP) or something.

Title: Re: What's Your Internet Speed/Reliability SATISFACTION?
Post by: J-Mac on September 16, 2011, 02:06 PM

Well, I actually felt kinda good about this until I saw Stephen's... Now I'm just jealous!!

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Jim

Title: Re: What's Your Internet Speed/Reliability SATISFACTION?
Post by: Renegade on September 17, 2011, 08:57 PM

The local look:

(http://www.speedtest.net/result/1488521331.png)

The more realistic view:

(http://www.speedtest.net/result/1488522682.png)

Rated for 10 to 20 Mbps *AS ADVERTISED*. However, everything in the advertising is misleading. Purposefully misleading. e.g.:

ADSL2+ Speeds:
Optimal ADSL2+ speeds require compatible ADSL2+ modem and filters. Around 70% of TPG ADSL2+ customers can achieve speeds greater than 10Mbps. Actual speeds will vary due to many factors including distance from the local telephone exchange, the quality of the customer's copper phone line, cabling and equipment.

While technically partially true, it's obvious that they're trying to mislead people. i.e. ADSL is asynchronous, and down/up differ, so stating a speed of 10 Mbps implies both up and down, however, the reality is very different. Conclusion: they're misleading intentionally because nobody in the industry is that stupid as to confuse ADSL for (synchronous) DSL. When you call them for support, they'll confess that the expected up speed is 1 Mbps. I really don't appreciate having to dig that far to get basic information. :(

It would be one thing to be upfront and honest, but that just ticks me off. Like just how hard is it to be honest?

Anyways, that's better than I was seeing before, so I'm much happier with that. And still very jealous of a few people in here~! :D

Title: Re: What's Your Internet Speed/Reliability SATISFACTION?
Post by: KynloStephen66515 on September 18, 2011, 01:46 PM

The local look:

(http://www.speedtest.net/result/1488521331.png)

The more realistic view:

(http://www.speedtest.net/result/1488522682.png)

Rated for 10 to 20 Mbps *AS ADVERTISED*. However, everything in the advertising is misleading. Purposefully misleading. e.g.:

ADSL2+ Speeds:
Optimal ADSL2+ speeds require compatible ADSL2+ modem and filters. Around 70% of TPG ADSL2+ customers can achieve speeds greater than 10Mbps. Actual speeds will vary due to many factors including distance from the local telephone exchange, the quality of the customer's copper phone line, cabling and equipment.

While technically partially true, it's obvious that they're trying to mislead people. i.e. ADSL is asynchronous, and down/up differ, so stating a speed of 10 Mbps implies both up and down, however, the reality is very different. Conclusion: they're misleading intentionally because nobody in the industry is that stupid as to confuse ADSL for (synchronous) DSL. When you call them for support, they'll confess that the expected up speed is 1 Mbps. I really don't appreciate having to dig that far to get basic information. :(

It would be one thing to be upfront and honest, but that just ticks me off. Like just how hard is it to be honest?

Anyways, that's better than I was seeing before, so I'm much happier with that. And still very jealous of a few people in here~! :D

-Renegade (September 17, 2011, 08:57 PM)

The way I have it worked out, is that if a company offers you a 20MB connection, this means, if you CONNECT at that 20mb speed, you will actually DOWNLOAD at 10% of that speed, and upload at 10% of your DOWNLOAD speed.

Not sure if thats the exact, but certainly seems true for my line:

When it works properly, I get...

100mb/s connection
  - 10MB/s Max DOWN Speed
  - 1MB/s UP Speed

Again...this is depending on a few factors like where I am downloading/uploading from and if my internet is behaving in an optimal state, and how many times I have kicked the router that day.

Torrents will obviously download at a much much higher rate than HTTP downloads and I can't actually figure out the Down/Up ratio for them as its different for literally every single one.

Well, I actually felt kinda good about this until I saw Stephen's... Now I'm just jealous!!

-J-Mac (September 16, 2011, 02:06 PM)

Please don't be...

You get very spoiled with a 100meg connection, and when it isn't working at full speed, and you find yourself on anything below 50-70, you get VERY annoyed, and people just don't understand how, or why your frustrated with downloading at ONLY 6500kb/s via HTTP.  :-\   8)

Title: Re: What's Your Internet Speed/Reliability SATISFACTION?
Post by: J-Mac on September 18, 2011, 09:31 PM

Well, I actually felt kinda good about this until I saw Stephen's... Now I'm just jealous!!

-J-Mac (September 16, 2011, 02:06 PM)

Please don't be...

You get very spoiled with a 100meg connection, and when it isn't working at full speed, and you find yourself on anything below 50-70, you get VERY annoyed, and people just don't understand how, or why your frustrated with downloading at ONLY 6500kb/s via HTTP.  :-\   8)

-Stephen66515 (September 18, 2011, 01:46 PM)

Oh, thank you - I feel so much better now.   ;)

Jim

Title: Re: What's Your Internet Speed/Reliability SATISFACTION?
Post by: Renegade on September 18, 2011, 11:18 PM

The way I have it worked out, is that if a company offers you a 20MB connection, this means, if you CONNECT at that 20mb speed, you will actually DOWNLOAD at 10% of that speed, and upload at 10% of your DOWNLOAD speed.

That seems to be pretty accurate. Well, maybe 5% of what's advertised... but potato hand grenade. Y'know... :P

Title: Re: What's Your Internet Speed/Reliability SATISFACTION?
Post by: KynloStephen66515 on September 19, 2011, 11:09 AM

Well, I actually felt kinda good about this until I saw Stephen's... Now I'm just jealous!!

-J-Mac (September 16, 2011, 02:06 PM)

Please don't be...

You get very spoiled with a 100meg connection, and when it isn't working at full speed, and you find yourself on anything below 50-70, you get VERY annoyed, and people just don't understand how, or why your frustrated with downloading at ONLY 6500kb/s via HTTP.  :-\   8)

-Stephen66515 (September 18, 2011, 01:46 PM)

Oh, thank you - I feel so much better now.   ;)

Jim

-J-Mac (September 18, 2011, 09:31 PM)

 :(  ;D ;D

The way I have it worked out, is that if a company offers you a 20MB connection, this means, if you CONNECT at that 20mb speed, you will actually DOWNLOAD at 10% of that speed, and upload at 10% of your DOWNLOAD speed.

That seems to be pretty accurate. Well, maybe 5% of what's advertised... but potato hand grenade. Y'know... :P

-Renegade (September 18, 2011, 11:18 PM)

 :D

Title: Re: What's Your Internet Speed/Reliability SATISFACTION?
Post by: Renegade on September 22, 2011, 12:25 AM

grrr....

outage... on phone... serious WWW withdrawl... phone insufficient for fix... must... get... connected... hard... to... breathe... going dim...

Title: Re: What's Your Internet Speed/Reliability SATISFACTION?
Post by: kyrathaba on September 23, 2011, 06:56 AM

BTW - I still love that "while(! dead_horse){beat}"!

Yeah, that was inspired :D

Title: Re: What's Your Internet Speed/Reliability SATISFACTION?
Post by: Stoic Joker on October 04, 2011, 05:16 PM

(http://www.speedtest.net/result/1517163078.png) (http://www.speedtest.net)

And I bet they can't figure out why I'm leaving.

Title: Re: What's Your Internet Speed/Reliability SATISFACTION?
Post by: nosh on October 04, 2011, 11:34 PM

For me the punchline is in the location, rather than the speed!  ;D

Title: Re: What's Your Internet Speed/Reliability SATISFACTION?
Post by: Stoic Joker on October 05, 2011, 06:33 AM

Not sure I follow, the test server's location is funny?

Title: Re: What's Your Internet Speed/Reliability SATISFACTION?
Post by: nosh on October 05, 2011, 07:24 AM

Yes, it's surprising/amusing that an ISP in the US is giving you those speeds.

Title: Re: What's Your Internet Speed/Reliability SATISFACTION?
Post by: Stoic Joker on October 05, 2011, 08:06 AM

Ah! Yes indeed...It is rather pathetic. But I get to wave bye bye to them Friday. :)

Title: Re: What's Your Internet Speed/Reliability SATISFACTION?
Post by: Stoic Joker on October 07, 2011, 06:06 PM

Yes! Fiber is better.

(http://www.speedtest.net/result/1522707375.png) (http://www.speedtest.net)

Title: Re: What's Your Internet Speed/Reliability SATISFACTION?
Post by: KynloStephen66515 on October 07, 2011, 06:58 PM

Yes! Fiber is better.

(http://www.speedtest.net/result/1522707375.png) (http://www.speedtest.net)

-Stoic Joker (October 07, 2011, 06:06 PM)

Hehe, welcome to the world of "Click and load" internet, glad you was able to say goodbye to the POS you had before :D

Title: Re: What's Your Internet Speed/Reliability SATISFACTION?
Post by: superboyac on October 07, 2011, 06:59 PM

Yes! Fiber is better.

(http://www.speedtest.net/result/1522707375.png) (http://www.speedtest.net)

-Stoic Joker (October 07, 2011, 06:06 PM)

DAM YOU STOIC!!  All you did was make people jealous....sheesh, those numbers just destroyed me.

Title: Re: What's Your Internet Speed/Reliability SATISFACTION?
Post by: Stoic Joker on October 07, 2011, 07:10 PM

DAMN YOU STOIC!!  All you did was make people jealous....sheesh, those numbers just destroyed me.

-superboyac (October 07, 2011, 06:59 PM)

Sorry man, it was time to park the tricycle...

Actually the worse part is it $20mo cheaper than the DSL ... Now how's that for totally screwed up?

Title: Re: What's Your Internet Speed/Reliability SATISFACTION?
Post by: J-Mac on October 07, 2011, 08:34 PM

Wow! Now I'm really jealous!

Verizon FiOS? We have them here but I have been reluctant to switch since they were such a horrible phone company for so many years here. (Landline, that is).

Thanks!

Jim

Title: Re: What's Your Internet Speed/Reliability SATISFACTION?
Post by: Renegade on October 07, 2011, 09:05 PM

Yes! Fiber is better.

(http://www.speedtest.net/result/1522707375.png) (http://www.speedtest.net)

-Stoic Joker (October 07, 2011, 06:06 PM)

DAM YOU STOIC!!  All you did was make people jealous....sheesh, those numbers just destroyed me.

-superboyac (October 07, 2011, 06:59 PM)

No doubt! I'm drooling over that too. Stick a propeller-beany on my head and cross my eyes then I'll look almost as slow as my ISP... :P

Title: Re: What's Your Internet Speed/Reliability SATISFACTION?
Post by: KynloStephen66515 on October 07, 2011, 10:45 PM

Ahh, finally, my interweb is starting to play nice!

I kinda feel bad posting this :(

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Title: Re: What's Your Internet Speed/Reliability SATISFACTION?
Post by: nosh on October 07, 2011, 11:10 PM

Stephen66515 - Photoshop Champ 2011

j/k :P

Way to go stoic + stephen!  :)

Title: Re: What's Your Internet Speed/Reliability SATISFACTION?
Post by: KynloStephen66515 on October 07, 2011, 11:28 PM

Stephen66515 - Photoshop Champ 2011

j/k :P

Way to go stoic + stephen!  :)

-nosh (October 07, 2011, 11:10 PM)

Not photoshops tbh, but also not the speed I should be getting LOL - Its been going crazy tonight...I pay for a 100mb/s line...but ive seen peaks of 212mb/s according to speedtest.net tonight - No idea whats going on :O

Title: Re: What's Your Internet Speed/Reliability SATISFACTION?
Post by: Renegade on October 08, 2011, 06:39 AM

Ahh, finally, my interweb is starting to play nice!

-Stephen66515 (October 07, 2011, 10:45 PM)

Nice? Jeez... I'd hate to know what awesome is. Probably something involving defying the general law of relativity or other madness. :P

Title: Re: What's Your Internet Speed/Reliability SATISFACTION?
Post by: superboyac on October 08, 2011, 02:28 PM

DAMN YOU STOIC!!  All you did was make people jealous....sheesh, those numbers just destroyed me.

-superboyac (October 07, 2011, 06:59 PM)

Sorry man, it was time to park the tricycle...

Actually the worse part is it $20mo cheaper than the DSL ... Now how's that for totally screwed up?

-Stoic Joker (October 07, 2011, 07:10 PM)

Where's the middle finger smiley??  This will do, just change the finger in your mind...  :Thmbsup:

Title: Re: What's Your Internet Speed/Reliability SATISFACTION?
Post by: f0dder on October 08, 2011, 04:53 PM

Yes! Fiber is better.
(http://www.speedtest.net/result/1522707375.png) (http://www.speedtest.net)

-Stoic Joker (October 07, 2011, 06:06 PM)

I hate you now :(

Actually the worse part is it $20mo cheaper than the DSL ... Now how's that for totally screwed up?

-Stoic Joker (October 07, 2011, 07:10 PM)

Like, REALLY hate you :( :( :(

Congrats, mate :)

Title: Re: What's Your Internet Speed/Reliability SATISFACTION?
Post by: Stoic Joker on October 09, 2011, 08:49 AM

LOL You guys...

I'd been with the DLS since 1998, but they just didn't keep up with the times. So I've been watching this new fiber service for about 2 years now and decided it was time to take the plunge after they left me hanging about a month ago.

Title: Re: What's Your Internet Speed/Reliability SATISFACTION?
Post by: Stoic Joker on October 19, 2011, 06:22 PM

So speed tests are fun, but they don't really show what'll happen when you're do an actual download. So I timed one:

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942MB in under 4min ... I'm ok with that.

Title: Re: What's Your Internet Speed/Reliability SATISFACTION?
Post by: Carol Haynes on October 19, 2011, 06:39 PM

Thoroughly pissed off ...

Over the last week my broadband speed has dropped from a steady 6Mb/s+ speed (usually around 6.5) to between 1 and 2Mb/s. Apparently my ISP has checked my line and it doesn't support higher speeds. When I pointed out that for the last 4 years I have been steadily about 6Mb/s they looked at my record and agreed to reprofile my line to try to restore that speed.

Reprofiling is supposed to have been completed today - now it seems to be running at 1Mb/s.

As I said - thoroughly pissed off!

Title: Re: What's Your Internet Speed/Reliability SATISFACTION?
Post by: Renegade on March 29, 2012, 12:15 AM

Been a while, but might as well keep it all in the same thread...

I'm on a shared connection over Wi-Fi at a hotel in Ho Chi Minh:

(http://www.speedtest.net/result/1862282785.png) (http://www.speedtest.net)

Wish I got that at home... :(

Title: Re: What's Your Internet Speed/Reliability SATISFACTION?
Post by: Carol Haynes on March 29, 2012, 06:37 AM

Thoroughly pissed off ...

-Carol Haynes (October 19, 2011, 06:39 PM)

Update: Forgot to update this after three weeks of daily calls to a Mumbai call centre I finally got them to reprofile properly and am not getting about 7.2mbps.

Its interesting that I have been looking at others' speeds using the same ISP off the same exchange and whilst I am by far the furthest I have checked from the exchange I get consistently much faster speeds. One friend could hit the exchange with a rock out of his window and only gets 2mbps. Shows it pays to have the argument.

Title: Re: What's Your Internet Speed/Reliability SATISFACTION?
Post by: jaden on April 02, 2012, 06:28 PM

Fiber is great.

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Title: Re: What's Your Internet Speed/Reliability SATISFACTION?
Post by: Carol Haynes on April 02, 2012, 06:50 PM

Interesting that your upload speed is SO much higher than download speed??? Doesn't look quite right to me!

Title: Re: What's Your Internet Speed/Reliability SATISFACTION?
Post by: KynloStephen66515 on April 02, 2012, 08:40 PM

Fiber is great.
 (see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=23913.msg283899#msg283899))

-jaden (April 02, 2012, 06:28 PM)

Wtf, looks backwards lol

Title: Re: What's Your Internet Speed/Reliability SATISFACTION?
Post by: Renegade on April 02, 2012, 08:46 PM

Interesting that your upload speed is SO much higher than download speed??? Doesn't look quite right to me!

-Carol Haynes (April 02, 2012, 06:50 PM)

It does seem odd...

Pulling a reason out of my butt, I'd guess that the fiber connection is synchronous, and that the measurement has evaluated available bandwidth, which would make sense as people usually download more than they upload, which would reduce the available possible download speed while leaving upload speeds alone.

Not sure though. I'm certain that someone here knows more than me about the subject and could explain why you'd see that.

Title: Re: What's Your Internet Speed/Reliability SATISFACTION?
Post by: rgdot on April 02, 2012, 08:55 PM

First guess: Download speeds being limited by ISP

Title: Re: What's Your Internet Speed/Reliability SATISFACTION?
Post by: jaden on April 02, 2012, 09:47 PM

Interesting that your upload speed is SO much higher than download speed??? Doesn't look quite right to me!

-Carol Haynes (April 02, 2012, 06:50 PM)

Wtf, looks backwards lol

-Stephen66515 (April 02, 2012, 08:40 PM)

It's been like that for the 3 years I've had it.  I was told by the installer that it's hard for them to limit upload speeds on their end.  (The service is supposed to be synchronous, 25Mbps up and down)

Title: Re: What's Your Internet Speed/Reliability SATISFACTION?
Post by: angeldeepa on April 03, 2012, 06:36 AM

My internet speed results are :


upload speed:0.52 kbps

download speed:1.96 kbps


I check my internet speed from this site http://www.ip-details.com/internet-speed-test/ ,  here it gives the best & accurate results for my internet speed test!!!!

Title: Re: What's Your Internet Speed/Reliability SATISFACTION?
Post by: KynloStephen66515 on May 22, 2012, 06:49 AM

(http://www.speedtest.net/result/1965100413.png)

Dunno wtf is going on with my upload speed though lol