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Great little Broadband Speed Test Site.

Best I can get is around 4471 kbps Download and around 720 kbps Upload.

I figure this is about as accurate as it can be since I am on a 5MB connection set for 800 kbps upload.

They have my connection marked off really well.

<A HREF="http://www.speakeasy.net/speedtest/" target="_new">http://www.speakeasy.net/speedtest/</A>

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That's pretty accurate!

Download Speed: 2877 kbps (359.6 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 237 kbps (29.6 KB/sec transfer rate)


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Reply to dhlucke

Gotta love my broadband connection. only costs $40 a month :D

Download Speed: 92 kbps (11.5 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 52 kbps (6.5 KB/sec transfer rate)

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Reply to alltaken

LOSER!

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Reply to dhlucke

785 kbps download, 185 kbps upload.

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Reply to WingDing

947kbps download, 117kbps upload.

My ISP is ramping up all the speeds soon, so my 1 Meg becomes 4 Meg. Alas, I move out about 5 days later. And I can't get cable at my new gaff. Bummer. :frown:

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Reply to RobD

6167 kbps (770.9 KB/sec transfer rate) Download & 359 kbps (44.9 KB/sec transfer rate) Upload speeds....

Not too bad for regular Comcast Broadband... Upload speeds could be higher though.....





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Reply to RCPilot

I didn't know you were getting ready to make the move... I knew that you were working toward it, but didn't know it was about to happen.... Good on you Man!!!



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Reply to RCPilot

6168kbps down
360kbps up

HAH! Try to beat that, suckers.

Reply to Era

Yeah, it should have been a few months ago, but there were delays with the the company that awards the New Homes Guarantee and then the piling company tried to pull a flanker, but it's all sorted now. Just waiting for the bathrooms to be tiled and the carpets down, and it's ready. Should be in by the 14th October.

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Reply to RobD

Oh, bugger.

Reply to Era

ha ha, gotta agree with you on that one.

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Reply to alltaken

That's great Man!!! I'm glad that it's working out for you...

It's stressful here getting / building a place as well... They've streamlined it some, as far as loans go, but you've got to jump through a bunch of hoops as well....



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Reply to RCPilot

<A HREF="http://img96.imageshack.us/img96/8308/noname7ol.jpg" target="_new">I dont even know if this is good...</A>

A unified pipeline is coming....expect big things.

Reply to GeneticWeapon

Looks like you are on a 5MB connection there unless you broke out of the box on a 4MB connection.

It's good what you have there.

I took this score out of New York City. I average about the same at all of them. This makes me feel resonably sure then when I online game I am getting to the game servers in one piece. I also check for packet loss to fav servers just to make sure I am not loseing any.
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<font color=green>(" )_(" )</font color=green><P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1><EM>Edited by SoDNighthawk on 09/18/05 12:42 PM.</EM></FONT></P>

Reply to SoDNighthawk

Why are the upload speeds all so low? Why don't they give us the same upload speed as download speed?

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Reply to dhlucke

Download Speed: 5457 kbps (682.1 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 474 kbps (59.3 KB/sec transfer rate) Not bad for a U.K connection to a U.S.A server.

<A HREF="http://fuller.zen.co.uk/test/" target="_new">good U.K.test</A>

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Reply to Tom_Smart

33 kbps download and 145 kbps upload [/cry]

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Reply to pat

3117 download
280 upload

Post Katrina! ;)

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Reply to RichPLS

*crying more than ever..*

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Reply to pat

That's crazy.

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Reply to dhlucke

It's supposed to be 5mb :tongue:

A unified pipeline is coming....expect big things.

Reply to GeneticWeapon

Download 4797
Upload 360


Thats a really good upload you've got!!!



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<P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1><EM>Edited by 4ryan6 on 09/18/05 10:18 PM.</EM></FONT></P>

Reply to 4ryan6

I don't expect big things they are already here!!

Voice Over IP is already here.

Plug a phone box into your broadband DSL or Cable connection between your P.C and your Modem and you have a Telephone to the world. The bigger pipes are being installed simply to cover that alone.

Copper phone lines are going to be a thing of the past with both VoIP and Radio Telephones now being installed and in use.

Internet could one day be transmitted over the power grid as soon as they can figure a way for billing customers on usage times. They can already transmit&receive it securely but they cant charge for it as there is no way to understand how much bandwidth a person consumes, it is as fast as hydro travels world wide then hooked to fibre for everything else.

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Reply to SoDNighthawk

I could get into dirty water here a bit because others believe specs they are told and don't fully understand but your P.C's NIC card rated @ 100MB is not really able to transmit that fast so that is one of the reasons you are capped on upload. The other reason is your ISP's don't like people operating Email scams and other nasty things out of the home and they enforce a CAP on both upload and download speeds unless you pay for it to be higher.
OC192 Modules for mainframes only broke the 10Gig limit in 2002 so it is no surprise that our current home computers are very limited yet. I know with some new Mainframe equipment upgraded such as OC192 mainframe bays that they are cracking 50Gig numbers now but even fibre optics has to be boosted in signal strength every hundred miles.
So a Central Office for your phone company is 50 miles from your house and you want a high speed connection but you live outside the 20 mile radius of the central office on a copper telephone line so you cant get DSL.
What Bell does is install a CSLAM Unit (High Speed Fibre Switching Station) 50, 100 miles out from the central office in a big spoke hub. If your house is then within 20 miles of one of these remote switches on a copper line they hook your OPI on your main street on copper back 5 miles to the Optic Switch (CSLAM UNIT) and you only then have 5 miles of copper line to it and the rest is fibre optic back to the main central switching office.
Each of these remote switches called CSLAM RSLAM and a few other titles are complete network hubs built of concrete 5 feet in the ground full of computers and computer switching cards. They cost around 5 million each so they cant put one on every corner but they do spread them out as much as they can. Some units are smaller distribution stand alone nodes and are not large enough for a man to enter but are hooked back to the RSLAM unit back to the (CO) or Central Office.

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Reply to SoDNighthawk

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Why are the upload speeds all so low? Why don't they give us the same upload speed as download speed?



This is because it's a capacity problem. If all you did with a high upload speed is posting to a remote server or storage space, then there wouldn't be a reason to limit the upload that much. However they fear a huge increase in peer to peer traffic once upload speeds are seriously increased, take torrents for example. The amount of such traffic would easily be multitudes of regular browsing and download behavior from public servers. They don't want to ruin the regular perceived server traffic performance to users (which would be bad marketing) and so they limit the upload speed, for all users. When running peer to peer applications, they tend to take all available bandwidth (unless you limit them yourself).

Personally I would prefer a higher speed peak performance, so I could upload serious amounts of photo's to my friends. I prefer to maintain control over my photo's or at least be the one to decide who to transfer them to, without depending on net storage.

I'm on a 1500 down, 1200 up link now btw, I'll do another measurement from home tonight. Nice linky, SoD. As all the servers are based in the US, my measurements do not reflect the performance I'll get within the EU but still, a good indication of transatlantic performance.




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Reply to BigMac

i win, download speed is...6094kbps (761.8 KB/S) and upload speed is 3689 kbps (461.1 KB/S)



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Reply to SNeaKyTiKi

Download Speed: 6783 kbps (847.9 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 944 kbps (118 KB/sec transfer rate)

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Reply to silverpig

Download Speed: 43 kbps (5.4 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 24 kbps (3 KB/sec transfer rate)

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Reply to Spitfire_x86

Speakeasy.net is nice place for testing the internet speed..I check my internet speed using the http://www.ip-details.com/internet-speed-test/ .It provides the both uploading & downloading speed..

Reply to suji

Suji - what was the date of the last post before yours? Oh look, 4 years and two months ago.

High speed broadband. Helping stupid people show their true worth even faster.

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