


Internet Connection Speed
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Posted 12 December 2011 - 06:22 PM
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Posted 13 December 2011 - 05:59 AM

#24
Posted 13 December 2011 - 07:51 AM
I get a B* which essentially is a question mark about packet loss. Although even if I got a good connection still going to be about location I bet.
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Posted 13 December 2011 - 02:48 PM
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Posted 13 December 2011 - 02:57 PM
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#29
Posted 13 December 2011 - 03:20 PM
Holmes, on 13 December 2011 - 02:58 PM, said:
..There is no way in God's green earth you get 90 Mb/s. That has to be a cookie glitch. (Look at the part where it says faster than 99% of the population.)
I'm downtown Chicago at a University with a very good connection. Where is the surprise? I'm not running a cable modem here. Oh, and it was pretty much the same for 3 runs.
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Posted 13 December 2011 - 03:25 PM
TheRulesLawyer, on 13 December 2011 - 03:20 PM, said:
I'm downtown Chicago at a University with a very good connection. Where is the surprise? I'm not running a cable modem here. Oh, and it was pretty much the same for 3 runs.
Do you ever actually get that kind of speed on downloads? That's nearly what a home network does (not counting the 1GB/s networks) with 5 feet of cable, much less an internet connection. I'm just shocked, I've never even seen T1 or T3 or Fiber go near that high, and Fiber is basically a resistance-less vacuum tube of light.
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Posted 14 December 2011 - 02:21 AM


#32
Posted 14 December 2011 - 09:42 AM
Holmes, on 13 December 2011 - 03:25 PM, said:
Do you ever actually get that kind of speed on downloads? That's nearly what a home network does (not counting the 1GB/s networks) with 5 feet of cable, much less an internet connection. I'm just shocked, I've never even seen T1 or T3 or Fiber go near that high, and Fiber is basically a resistance-less vacuum tube of light.
Occasionally. Microsoft is usually the best bet for big downloads. Its mostly limited by the remote server. I think we're on an OC3 connection in my building right now, not a t1 or t3. As I said, we're moving to internet2, which should be into the multi Gb/s range.
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Posted 14 December 2011 - 01:58 PM
Holmes, on 13 December 2011 - 02:58 PM, said:
I'm surprised you didn't try to call me out earlier in the thread when I posted 200+ Mb/s. The reason he gets that sort of speed is probably because his university has a direct line to their ISP, which cuts out a lot of the traffic and bandwidth issues people normally see. My school IS its own ISP, which means that since my computer's ethernet cable wires directly into the host server, I get speeds faster than a direct fiber cable (up to 2Gb/s, which is absolutely ridiculous). Of course, the only way you can reasonably get those sort of speeds on a realistic download is either by connecting to a server that is set up to handle those kinds of speeds (microsoft's servers will go pretty dang high when they're not loaded down, as well at the MIT servers when our university is working with them on a project that requires ultra high bandwidth), or by doing a massive parallel download for maybe 50 different things at once all from different servers, which combined together will really rack in the download speeds.
So yes, connection speeds like this do very much exist, most prominently at high tech universities.
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Posted 15 December 2011 - 07:05 AM
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