POLL: How fast is your connection?? d/l?

[Wilan Wong]

I was just wondering how fast connections people around the world had. Australia unfortunately still has very little companies offering broadband access.. and some of the companies cap their connection rate at slow rates as well... and how fast do you d/l as well??

Telstra Big Pond Advance, Australia
Conn.: Unknown! (it's uncapped, around 4Mbits) And uncapped upload (i dunno how fast!)
Speed: around 300-600kb/sec (depending on site)

[voogru]

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(i been playing with windowblinds lately)


my dsl speed is usally 120KBps-220KBps (thats KILOBYTES per second)

also i have dsl not cable

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[Cody]

Well, I am on a Dial Up - 56k, and my download is at average of 9KB, higher average of 11KB, highest at 15KB and low at 5KB (and yes, even though these seem high, these are KB)

[Warthog]

geez Cody, where are you at?

I get a whopping 5-6k/sec http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif

Warthog

[eagle1]

Yeah... Where are you man???

I get the same results as Warthog!!!

[Shadal]

http://home.tampabay.rr.com/shadal/temp/speed.jpg

[OK.. THAT'S ANOYING..] I cant get the image above to show in this forum, but if you click on it, then hit "go" or highlight the address in the new window and press "enter" it should show.. wonder why that is... *shrugs*

This was at 12:30 on a Saturday, using Time Warner RoadRunner.

*shrugs* I'm disapointed in it's performance.. If it's like this, they need to drop the price from $40, it's rediculous!

Shadal

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[Dove19983]

I get somewhere between 3KB-4KB. 5KB If its about 3am and I'm very lucky.
Cable is spossed to be here in september, Can't wait.

[hawkeye177]

56K usally 3-5kb per second. I am going to get dsl as soon as I move.

[Sweeper]

Time Warner Road Runner
Average is about 250Kbps
On a good site download speed is 390 Kbps.
I have hit up to 500 Kbps, but not very often.

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[t048]

20 - 30 KBytes / sec average and 40-50KB/Sec max. That is with a DSL line.

[Neosho_Boy]

SWBELL

DSL
1.5MBps Down
128Kbps Up

Average pings of 40-90ms

I would never go back to Dialup if I had a choice.

NBoy

[radbasa]

256/128 DSL

sometimes I get a total of 30kBps while downloading several files simultaneously.

according to dslreports, i have 211/531 kbps down/up. So d/ls OK, but u/l's well weird to say the least.

[Cody]

All you people who wondered where I live at - Wisconsin :-)

I have DotNet, which ROCKS!

[Cody]

Oh yeah ::hehe::
www.dotnet.com (http://www.dotnet.com)

[sir]

Mmmm. http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif
http://hem.passagen.se/sir166/wroom.gif
Look in the lower right corner.
Pretty close to my top speed.

[medo]

Hello,

56 connection (University).
Download at an average 5.8

Medo

http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif

[kenyg]

I've got Verizon DSL - the 640/90 plan.
On www.dslreports.com (http://www.dslreports.com) I average 500/80.


Ken

[Warthog]

I would never go back to Dialup if I had a choice.

Well gee if I had broadband internet, neither would I!!

Warthog

[Jonty]

56k modem - connect at 45333, highest I ever had was 46667 and lowest 40000, but 99% it's 45333.

Download at an average 4.9kb.

[F4_Hunter]

768/128kbps DSL service from my phone company (Ameritech). The actual DL speed I get is more around 600kbps (75K).

I swear I could go to sleep waiting on my dads 56K now even though I spent 3 years on the very same thing.

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[Wormo]

Thank You Warthog!!!

[frnkzks]

10 Mbps on campus. I have had that speed since 1996. I'll miss the fat internet pipe when I graduate later this year. http://www.sysopt.com/forum/frown.gif

[Inanis]

Time Warner Road Runner, Columbus Ohio Division.
http://www.twcol.com

I can get 315 Kbytes down maximum, and about 50 Kbytes up maximum.

The town I live in is a small community of about 16,000 people in the middle of nowhere, apparently Time Warner didnt see a need for any more bandwith here than that.

The company I work for tried to get a DS3 for our internet backbone, but couldn't because "there arent enough circuits coming from columbus to accommadate a DS3"

Whatever.

[Wilan Wong]

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[JacobM5727]

well i have a 56k modem, and aol.. i download things like mp3s usually at around 5.6kb\s

[[Neo770]]

I am on 56k and average around 3kb/s http://www.sysopt.com/forum/frown.gif

[tarpat1]

@Home Cable, I regularly get 200-350k downloads and 128k uploads. Much better then dial-up.

[Dudster]

Just got ADSL on Friday (BT openworld), 512down\256up but it's actually a bit higher (I connect at 576000 bps). Haven't downloaded anything yet but I had a few games of Quake 3 last night and was pinging between 40-50ms. The difference is amazing, right now I'm listening to streamed audio while browsing other sites and I've still got bandwidth to spare http://www.sysopt.com/forum/biggrin.gif

[hhh8785]

On AT&T@Home, download speeds vary all over the place depending on where you're downloading from, but the highest I've ever actually seen (I lost my screenshot of it in my reformat I think) was around 443Kb/sec. That is Kilobytes. There's nothing gayer than people using kilobits and **** like that. But the fastest I've ever gone was downloading IE 5.5 with one of those update progs. I was getting **** near 1 Mb/sec. It was awesome. That is just based on my looking at the bar go across and reading the part recieved/total thing. It didn't have the actual speed. It was like 1...2...3.. you get the idea. I could post some screenshots of faked speeds if you want.

HhH8785

[canoman]

I'm just gotten powerlink cable- fastest test I've tried is 926k. Slwest around 180k
seems to be 225k-250k average during peak times. (Until it gets more popular in my area)

[boran_blok]

Depends from where ...

directly between me and my cable company : about 1 to 1,4 MB/sec

between me and the fast internet : (download.com with fastest mirror used etc ..) 500 to 700 KB/sec

between me and the average internet 250 to 500 KB/sec (depends on trafic/time and location)

between me and russian sites 1 to 3 KB sec .. I think whole russia is connected to the WWW with ONE single 56k modem as main router and everyone there uses 9600 baud modems ...



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[Wizzard~Of~Ozz]

Look Communication in Canada
Highspeed bi-directional wireless connection

average 200K/s high 500K/s

[voogru]

Heres some more numbers http://www.sysopt.com/forum/biggrin.gif

** Speed 1176(down)/214(up) kbps **
(At least 23 times faster than a 56k modem)
Finish.
this was done at 5:09PM

about a week ago i was only getting about half of that i remember getting a sudden speed boost after i did sumthing to my regestry. http://www.sysopt.com/forum/biggrin.gif

-voogru

[Rhino302]

My connection is rated at 384 kilobits/128

I download average at 40 kilobytes/sec

[tepo]

256/256 DSL. And I'm sick of it. Will be 512/512 on monday. http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif

Tepo

[Gomer]

Cody: what sort of files are you seeing this DL rate on? I'd have to see a screenshot to believe you have sustained rates of anything greater then 6.5

[acid_burn~187]

300/40 Cable Con.

~Paul

[flea]

3-4k/s normally
5 very rarely

[eags1]

mine

1059.7 kbps varies from 927 to this I have cable obviously

[Warthog]

No offense Cody, but that is kinda sketchy. That is INSANE speed for a 56k to be consistant at.

Warthog

[1MoInput]

Well, if you talk about average speed then I get about 5.7 average. Sometimes when the download starts, I can get about 25-30k too, but it will slowly slow down to around 5.4-5.7 k. G Cody....are you sure that's constant rate that you talking about, or is that the highest you saw? Heheh....I wish I get 10+ k on a modem http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif

[chass]

i just d/l some mp3's @ 5.39KBps thats kilobyes, and i hear that mp3's are not compressible for downloading. so thats pretty good im guessing, i currently have www.1stconnect.com (http://www.1stconnect.com) as my isp, i previoulsy had netzero but that is really slow with the bandwith hogging ads. hopefully ill have dsl this week http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif

[doodoo]

3-4K for me. I've tried to download stuff at 5am, but everything's the same.

[CoryKer]

Well, it seems like everyone is using Kb and KB interchangably... I've even seen a kB somewhere in here.

A bit (b) is the smallest possible piece of information (a 1 or a 0), right? A byte (B) is 8 bits, correct?

Therefore a kilobit (Kb) is a thousand bits, and a kilobyte (KB) is a thousand bytes. Right?

That said, using @home cable (Cogeco @home, in St.Catherines), I get about 1200 Kb (that's kiloBITS), so about 150 KB (kiloBYTES). That's downstream. Upstream, I get about 600 kbps, so like 75 KB.

I think everyone should go to dslreports.com and clock their connection... then we could have everyone's exact speed (it works for cable and dial-up, too)

-Cory Ker

[10.90streetcar]

dsl reported 1450/128 Kbps i have Cox cable

[MTAtech]

I have cable from Optonline. These are my results from http://www.dslreports.com/stest:

Test running..Downloaded 60900bytes in 781ms
Downloaded 696000bytes in 5048ms
First guess is 1103kbps
fairly fast line - now test 2mb
Downloaded 1679100bytes in 11566ms
Upload got ok 1 bytes uploaded
Uploaded 1bytes in 211ms
Upload got ok 1 bytes uploaded
Uploaded 1bytes in 200ms
Upload got ok 1 bytes uploaded
Uploaded 1bytes in 200ms
Upload got ok 50000 bytes uploaded
Uploaded 50000bytes in 701ms
Upload got ok 750000 bytes uploaded
Uploaded 750000bytes in 6650ms

** Speed 1161(down)/930(up) kbps **
(At least 23 times faster than a 56k modem)
Finish.

[sharder8]

I currently have DirecPC download only (two-way in 3 weeks http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif ) and my downloads have been a min. of 400kbs. W2000Pro SP2, 101.6?mb took 9.5 min. and I was downloading other up-date files at the same time.

Up-load is still my dial up http://www.sysopt.com/forum/frown.gif, but only for 3 more weeks! When I get the other half, I should be getting 128kbs up, and 400-800kbs down.

Harder

[MadMatt]

15Mbps/128Kbps DSL. I average around 160Kbps from a quick site. Playing CS with a ping in the 19-25ms range is pretty nice too....

[Joe03]

Downloads
Average: 1800 KB/s
Max: 4800 KB/s

Uploads:
Average: 380 KB/s
Max: 1200 KB/s

On OC-155 line from College

[SPEEDO]

1500(Down) 300 (Up)

Was Roadrunner now AT&T @ Home

[elroy]

I live in central Indiana and have ADSL from TDS Telecom. I have a maximum connection of 1.5mbps, usually get connect speeds of 700-900k up and down. Download speeds average around 80 or 90k per second. But I have gotten as high as 150k.

[elroy]

Sorry for double post.

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[Icculus]

Here's a d/l shot...
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I'm on @Home in Lakewood, CO. Supposed to be getting Wide Open West service soon, providing these speeds both up and down.
Right now I get great down speeds (this shot is actually average numbers, assuming the website is on a decent connection), but my upload sucks. About 4KB/sec.

**** upload cap...

[robin801]

i just got dsl through earthlink on friday.
checked at dsl reports and speed is
730download and 115 upload
i checked on 2wire and bandwidth is
415.1
that was at 5:20pm

voogru-what exactly did you do in registry to get more speed?

robin

[TCWolffe]

just d/l my bearshare update (heh) at 376kbps can't get my image to paste here, but oh well....running Time Warner Road Runner in a small town (I'm probably the only one, or one of few on my neighborhood box).

[Mr. Mojo Risin]

<IMG SRC="http://www.rjponzio.com/graphics/speed.gif" border=0>

I love my cable modem http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif

[HfdWolfPack]

On average with the various "test" pages, e.g. www.2wire.com (http://www.2wire.com) , MSN's, and cnets, I get around 700KB for the speed tests.
Usually on downloading files and such, (which depends on the other side) anywhere from 20-250 KB

My cable connection just went up about $7 per month, making it $47 per month. Still well worth it.

[Beemer]

17.72KBs on a garbage Cable Internet. Radio signal in and out with 3 hops via parabolics.

Check out this page for a noticeable differnece in browsing speed:

http://browserspeed.beemerworld.com

Cheers!

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[terryx]

I'm on AT&T Broadband, my average dl speed is
220 kilobytes sec, upload is about 128 average... I'm happy as a pig in **** with my cable connection, after toiling in dial-up hell for ten years! Cootchy Momma...

[The Highlander]

Well... for the guy up there that is sick of its 256/256 connection, I would gladly exchange. I am pretty happy with my connection and its a 56k. I am using a creative modem blaster di5660 (isa http://www.sysopt.com/forum/frown.gif) but it ussually connects at 53.2 using win2k. And dowloads and uploads speeds are average of 6kB/s with highs up to 11kB/s.

One thing I wanted to mention is... If you are transferring at 53000bps you are transfering at 5.3KB/s This is because you have 8bits in one byte + 1 start bit + a stop bit so 10bps =1 Bps.

I called my DSL company and I should get my cable modem pretty soon... 256/128 @ 60/month http://www.sysopt.com/forum/frown.gif but... SPEED AT LAST (of some sort... )

[Hawkeye178]

I have a 56k and I use AOL. My speed is usually about 3-5kb/sec.

Hawkeye178

[slacker85]

On the local ISP, usually 3-4kb/sec. 5kb/s is very, very rare. Around 128kb/s at school.

[Sixpac]

On @home at about 56kbps.

[Crimson_Waylander]

I live in Santa Barbara, CA
I have Cox@Home on their 3000/256 Kbps plan
I get 3232/290.

Gotta love cable, though I wish i had a better upload speed.

Oh well, can't complain.

-CW

[Warthog]

FYI, absolutely the ONLY thing stopping me from having broadband is availability. It simply is not in my area of the state yet - that's all.

Warthog

[dyer_maker]

I am rated 750 kilobits for downloading and 100 for uploading. Generally I only get about 50 kilobytes a second when downloading.

[jaytv]

I have Roadrunner here in So. California. I must be alone on my node, because I average about 2-4Mb in most tests down, and about 500-800Kb up. My download speeds off fast servers (Microsoft, Download.com,etc) with my highly tweaked Win2K box are awesome, sometimes well over 1MB (that's right, mega-byte)per second. I am trying to set up a online picture for the skeptics out there.