What's your speed?

[Spock]

Click on the image below and it will take you to a Speed Test site where you can test how fast your Internt connection is.



This image is a display of my results.

[Walts]

From Work:



From Work II using a more "direct" access:

[Icy]

My Little gaming Rig My rig does pretty good for having 3 large games installed on the bare min requirments. My laptop is 5 years old. I need to upgrade my computer soon.


Manufacturer: Gateway
Processor: Mobile Intel(R) Celeron(TM) CPU 1333MHz
Memory: 510MB RAM
Hard Drive: 20 GB
Video Card: Intel(R) 82830M Graphics Controller
Monitor: Digital Flat Panel (1024x768)
Sound Card: ESS Allegro
Speakers/Headphones:
Keyboard: USB Root Hub
Mouse: USB Root Hub
Mouse Surface:
Operating System: Windows XP Home Edition (5.1, Build 2600) Service Pack 2 (2600.xpsp_sp2_gdr.050301-1519)

[Walts]

From Home:

[Spock]

Not bad for dial-up, Icy.

How are you getting upload speeds like that Walts?

[Repr]

from home

[Walts]

How are you getting upload speeds like that Walts?

Long Island Cabelvision Broadband, used at both work and at home. At work they have the DLs throttled-back [grrrr].

[Icy]

Not bad for dial-up, Icy.

How are you getting upload speeds like that Walts?

I'm on Charter Cable internet. The only time I use dial up is when my cable internet goes out. I have juno for free if my cable net goes out.

[Spock]

Not bad for dial-up, Icy.

How are you getting upload speeds like that Walts?

I'm on Charter Cable internet. The only time I use dial up is when my cable internet goes out. I have juno for free if my cable net goes out.

I can see that, I don't know what I was thinking. That would be phenominal for dial-up! Maybe I should just retire?

[Icy]

I'll allow you this one error.

[iissmart]

From college:

[Ben Last]

From Home:

[Uhura]

From work:



Don't have from home yet...gasp! I know very Dark Ages...when I finally do have it will probably be on the forum all the time...Spock will want to kick me out...or at least just kick me...

[Spock]

Speedtest run from the classroom:

[url=http://www.speedtest.net][img]http://www.speedtest.net/result/137052860.png[/img][/url]

[Now why does the above not parse properly!? Even when I copy a link from another post that works into here it doesn't work. Curious.]

[Walts]

From Home

[Spock]

Fascinating, the problem must lie with my account. I've used three different computers so far and they all display the same problem. When I view my pages using Firefox, no artifacts show up. When I view the pages using IE7, it is as if all blank spaces were images with bad links, a little box with a red 'x' displays in its place. Not only that but most punctuation (well periods anyway ...) appears but has the same type of box after it.

[Aded]
This post seems OK. Let me try posting the URL again ...

[punkin8tor]

So I tested my speed first w/ a DC recommendation and here is what I got...



Then w/ a MD site and her is what I got...



For some reason I thought my sevice would have been faster because it is DSL... Oh well It is fast enough for me.

[Spock]

... For some reason I thought my sevice would have been faster because it is DSL... Oh well It is fast enough for me.

DSL is actually the slowest of the broadband offerings. The fastest a dialup modem can get is 53Kbs, though I've very rarely seen that speed. DSL is basically two dialup lines connected back-to-back so early DSL was only 106 Kbs. Obviously, they have done something to speed that up a bit but you still need to be a set (fairly close) distance from a pone sub-station in order to even get it.

I never thought to try different servers. Here's from the recommended Washington, DC site:

Looks like they've increased the speed somehow compared to my last test.

Here's from Frederick, MD:


And just for the Halibut, here's one from near the Pacific Coast of Canada (something fishy there ...):

[Icy]

This is with a free preview upgrade from Charter.



Spock would the numbers change again with a better computer using the same ISP?

[Spock]

... would the numbers change again with a better computer using the same ISP?

As you notice in my post, the numbers change depending even upon the Server you choose for the test. Part of the test is how fast the computer can process the information, so the speed would defiitely increase if you used a faster computer.

I know you have at least two computers there, why not run the speed test on both computers, first one and then the other, and compare them. That would give you a much better idea than anything else.

[Spock]

Latest random speedtest:

[Walts]

 
Over 21,000 Kpbs -- outstanding

[Spock]

Classroom speed:

http://www.speedtest.net/result/225762632.png

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Single system turned on, 10/100/1000 MB Switch connected to DSL modem.

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722 kb/s download
117 kb/s upload

[Spock]

Here is the connection speed using one of the classroom computers connected to my home Internet connection:

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8785 kb/s download
1597 kb/s upload

[Spock]

Here is the results from my Windows XP system a few minutes later using the same Connection:

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26536 kb/s download
2201 kb/s upload