Internet speed test statistics

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  1. TruthSeeker

    TruthSeeker Fancy Virtual Reality Monkey Valued Senior Member

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    I pay about $50. Stop using Telus, they are absolutely horrible! :bugeye:
     
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    §outh§tar is feeling caustic Registered Senior Member

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    3152 kbps up, 296 down.

    I've seen it go MUCH faster though. I've gotten ~10,000k down before.
     
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  8. leopold

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    mine:
    2881 kbps down.
    651 kbps up

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    my ISP is verizon.
    i pay $37/ mo. for a 3000 kbps service.
     
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    By the way this speedtest is sponsored by the Speakeasy website, thus it is not a surprize they had similar results. With the Speakeasy I chose the NYC location, with Speedtest I had Frederick , MD....

    I used this test back in December and I got 1660 kbps, although I haven't got any hardware updates since then. Must be the ISP....

    Here is another site, it gave only 6.4 Mbps: (location is unknown)

    http://www.bandwidthplace.com/speedtest/

    This site gave 2.6 Mbps:

    http://performance.toast.net/

    So the spread is 300%... :shrug:
     
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  15. Absane

    Absane Rocket Surgeon Valued Senior Member

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    Oh wow. The result I posted is with me ON wi-fi. I pay for 5 megabits, too.
     
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  16. Syzygys

    Syzygys As a mother, I am telling you Valued Senior Member

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    The major difference between the desktop and the laptop is the clockspeed. They both have AMD Sempron processor 3000+ and 3400+ respectively. But the desktop's clock is 2Ghz and the laptop's is only 789 Mhz...

    They are both low end cheap computers, so I assume using the same ISP with better computers the speed would be even higher. Although I still can't believe the 13.3 Mbps...
     
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    see how slow mine is.

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    EmptyForceOfChi, Jun 7, 2007
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  18. EmptyForceOfChi

    EmptyForceOfChi Banned Banned

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    why is your upload faster than your download? that shouldent happen should it?


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    EmptyForceOfChi, Jun 7, 2007
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  19. Stryder

    Stryder Keeper of "good" ideas. Valued Senior Member

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    It can happen if the person is downloading in the background while doing a speed test.

    There is also another explaination involving the contention ratio, where if a busy time of the day the exchange might be flooded with users all "Downloading" which in turn lowers the upper downloading speed based upon the ratio.
     
    Stryder, Jun 8, 2007
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    mine is alright...not great...telenet is bogged down tonight, i think.
    ill note that i have a file downloading behind this test.
     
    The Devil Inside, Jun 8, 2007
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  22. Syzygys

    Syzygys As a mother, I am telling you Valued Senior Member

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    So here is the question:

    There is a 300% difference between my laptop's and desktop's speed but when I was watching the online movie, there was no noticable difference. Is that because that website transfers with the same (most likely slower than my laptop's) speed?
     
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    Interesting, 'cos I downgraded my broadband a few months ago, but it hasn't been downgraded, I just pay less!
     
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