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[Vandul]

You know dirt?


Im slower...

[bigrigross]

Edited by bigrigross, 29 June 2012 - 07:30 AM.

[cipher]

bigrigross, on 29 June 2012 - 07:29 AM, said:

Very nice.

[bigrigross]

cipher, on 29 June 2012 - 07:38 AM, said:

Very nice.

Yeah, its sorta cheating since I am in college. But coming from 768Kbps at home 4 years ago to that was like going from an HDD to an SSD. I could never download anything at all. I am a bit spoiled now lol. But that comes to an end this December when I graduate . Indiana ISP's are pricey as could be.

[Ens]

Edited by Ens, 29 June 2012 - 10:05 AM.

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bigrigross, on 29 June 2012 - 10:00 AM, said:

Yeah, its sorta cheating since I am in college. But coming from 768Kbps at home 4 years ago to that was like going from an HDD to an SSD. I could never download anything at all. I am a bit spoiled now lol. But that comes to an end this December when I graduate . Indiana ISP's are pricey as could be.

Yeah, I hear you. I work at a university, so my upstream is way faster at work than at home. The difference is so big that if I ever upload a 5 to 20 GB youtube video, I'd put it on a flash drive at home, and bring it in to work to upload. I still get 35 down 7 up at home, which is good, but it's not higher-ed dedicated connection speeds.

I have the option to go to a 100 down 20 up at home, but the price is insane. Those extreme consumer plans are really meant for several people sharing the same Internet connection.

[SteelJaws]

[Daohor OzFey]

Cant complain. Though the did promise me 40/40 but heck, whos counting

[8Ball-]

Zakatak, on 28 June 2012 - 04:14 PM, said:

Speedtest.net seems to be incredibly off.

Before, the website told me I had a download speed of 2.60Mb/s. But when I actually went to download something off of, say, Steam, my download speed would peak at about 310kb/s. I got new internet, and it listed my download speed as 14.9Mb/s, but my actual download speed was 1.4Mb/s or so.

Is this normal? Are all of you getting lower real download speeds then Speedtest.net is claiming?

The reports are mega-bits per second not mega-bytes. So your actual speed is 1/8-1/10 of what is reported. It's like the old modems. Modem might be 56kb but your speed was actually 5.6 kilobytes per sec. bytes vs bits I always considered it a marketing ploy to make it seem much faster than it really is.

[wastin]

[WardenWolf]

Actually, that is from here at my work... so not where I will be playing from :/

Here is my result from home:

[Cyberpunk87]

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WardenWolf, on 29 June 2012 - 10:18 AM, said:

Actually, that is from here at my work... so not where I will be playing from :/

Wow, the Comcast "Business" class connection isn't so "business" like when its upstream is slower than its down. If you're running servers at a workplace, I guess you wouldn't want to go Comcast anything. Probably fine for business who just use the Internet for communication, placing orders, and research.

[i0dine]

[LordDread]

lol australia to vancouver


and closer to home



yay for bog stock adsl ......

Edited by LordDread, 29 June 2012 - 11:01 AM.

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LordDread, on 29 June 2012 - 10:56 AM, said:

lol australia to vancouver


and closer to home



yay for bog stock adsl ......

OUCH! Well, I certainly don't envy you. Is that all Internet access in your neighborhood, or are there other options/providers?

[LordDread]

yeah theres other isps, mine got taken over by a larger one that doesnt have its own dslams in my exchange, so all i get now is an open port, that said my average ping for WOT is 280, which is far from unplayable.

[TheHeater]

Whew!

[WardenWolf]

cipher, on 29 June 2012 - 10:21 AM, said:

Wow, the Comcast "Business" class connection isn't so "business" like when its upstream is slower than its down. If you're running servers at a workplace, I guess you wouldn't want to go Comcast anything. Probably fine for business who just use the Internet for communication, placing orders, and research.

I'm not sure how much of our services are hosted here in-house... but whatever services are hosted, this test was running at the same time (so we may have had part of our upload clogged with traffic already). I can say we are way better off with Comcast than what we used to have: paired T1s, which had equal download and upload but both were horribly low

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WardenWolf, on 29 June 2012 - 11:18 AM, said:

I'm not sure how much of our services are hosted here in-house... but whatever services are hosted, this test was running at the same time (so we may have had part of our upload clogged with traffic already). I can say we are way better off with Comcast than what we used to have: paired T1s, which had equal download and upload but both were horribly low

T1s are obsolete connections. But it's good you don't host much at your workplace, so that connection is fine for your purposes.