What's your internet speed?

[Brian the Automator]

Just got U-Verse installed yesterday (very positive experience so far), and I'm getting much better speeds all-day long than my Roadrunner service.

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Curious as to who's got what kinds of speeds from their providers?... and no running this from your workplace, as I'm sure many of you have T1's, and that's cheating http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/smile.gif

[Invader3K]

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I have Charter.

[bullox]

T1 is only 1.5 Mbps up/down. The upload is good, but the download speed doesn't cut it nowadays. The real plus with T1 is reliability.

 

My service at home is terrible, I need to get cable in here. I'm getting 3.5 Mbps down on Embarq DSL.

 

I was working at a huge data center in town yesterday, the office network there has a 100Mbps connection to the web. I was in heaven. That is really nothing though compared to the bandwidth that goes through that building, 800Gbps. Yes, you read that right. 800,000,000Kbps.

 

http://www.switchnap.com/ - I was working at the SuperNAP - highest density data center in the world. The place takes more electricity than three of the mega-casinos on the strip combined.

[homer]

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[trwi7]

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Don't know what package you got for U-Verse Brian, but they've upgraded to the top internet service for everybody until November 10th.

[1992casey]

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This is DSL ten miles out into the country. This doesn't match the others above, but it sure beats the dialup I had to use up until last week.

 

Do you know of a way to test a specific web site? I'd love to test the Yuku boards.

[Brian the Automator]

Ahh crap, and here I thought they just gave me the best internet package because they made a mistake.

[Katuluu]

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[trwi7]

Ahh crap, and here I thought they just gave me the best internet package because they made a mistake.

I certainly hope you got some free stuff for switching to them. I got six free months of the U-400 package when I first got it.

[JonnyLungs]

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This is on WildBlue

[JimH5]

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Starhub in Singapore. . .
It's seemed slow lately.

And I was not aware of that Speedtest.net site. Very cool.

[homer]

Dumb question: When am I downloading vs. uploading?

[endaround]

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Ooh, how I hate not having roadrunner here

[Brian the Automator]

Dumb question: When am I downloading vs. uploading?

 

Most users are pretty much always downloading... getting web pages, streaming video & audio, etc... Uploading is sending the request to GET the web page you want (which is very small)... Where uploading comes into play is when you're running a server off your machine, or you're using some sort of p2p file sharing.

[Brian the Automator]

trwi7 wrote: I certainly hope you got some free stuff for switching to them. I got six free months of the U-400 package when I first got it.

 

I got $200 cash back.

[bball123h]

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[gypcasino]

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[Katuluu]

This thread is doing wonders for my self esteem. Now if only Toby would stop in, show off his dainty connection speed, and my supreme authority will be assured.

[nate82]

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ISP is Road Runner though.

[Menace II Sobriety]

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Road Runner

[Marc Newfield of Dreams]

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Roadrunner.

[1992casey]

Where uploading comes into play is when you're running a server off your machine, or you're using some sort of p2p file sharing.

 

Wouldn't uploading also come into play when sending e-mail attachments, putting files on photobucket, etc.?

[logan82]

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[nate82]

Wouldn't uploading also come into play when sending e-mail attachments, putting files on photobucket, etc.?

Yes also when you playing any computer game or making a post like right now. Though all of them use very little bandwidth for uploading. Downloading takes more and that is the reason why you get more download than you get upload.

[jordanmuehl]

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Wow. This internet is fun.