How Fast Is Your Internet Connection?

[oldskool69]

Just curious...how fast is your internet connection? I decided to test mine to make sure I was getting what I pay for as we have tablets, Xbox, phones, etc. let alone laptops streaming stuff. (I do this on occasion to keep my provider on their toes.) I have 100mbps down and 5mbps up.

Here is what mine can do from my house in Alabama to Atlanta, GA:




My house to Tennessee (Fatdog):




My house to Florida (Redbenjoe):




My house to Wisconsin (Skippy):




My house to California (Lasonic TRC-920):




My house to Washington-State (Kenpat):




My house to New York City (Llopez):




My house to Toronto (Robb):




My house to Germany (mccdomino):




My house to United Kingdom (Beosystem):





I did not include anything after this because South America, Asia, Africa and the South Pacific regions averaged 14 to 25mbps down and about 3 up. No higher than 30-35mbps up in certain areas of South America such as Sao Paulo which is a population center. There was a lot of packet loss too as I could detect various boost techniques from the other end resulting in sharp peaks and valleys in data transfer. I was really surprised how bad Japan was intercontinental wise as well.

I know a lot of this depends on the provider and the maintenance. For example, if you can get FiOS by Veripoff...I mean Verizon, (or other fiber direct) then you are on fiber and should be like a light switch speed wise.

How does your connection fare, is your provider good or bad? How is it locally (within the continent such as the Eurozone) Charter has been good to us and when there was a problem, they ponied up. Does your treat you right or are you stuck because there's nothing else.

BTW...I'm working on a technique to raid your homes via the web and transfer your grails back via the same.

 

[skippy1969]

I have a Charter Cable package with 30 meg Download and I'm getting 35-60 megs download and 3-8 megs upload most times no matter where I'm downloading to.

 

[Superduper]

I get a measly 2.5mb down and about 150kb up with ATT's DSL. Think I'll be needing to change but rural options are scarce.

 

[stormsven]

Wow. Are those results wireless or cabled ? I got 50- 60 download, but 35-40 upload when direct with the cable. But normally using router all the time and loosing some speed. Here around us the upload is really important for many reasons , lets say for seeding torrents for starters . Sometimes when we are downloading torrent files the speed from the download is faster than the hard drive can write

 

[Ken]

I'm at Paul Allen's mercy, too, Freddy. He treats us pretty good, We're bottom feeders with his slowest package of 10mb down. To tell you the truth, all I can remember from the days of seeding music torrents on Demonoid is it jumped to lickity-split speed for an upload. Don't do any of that anymore 'cause Wavecable charges you now when you go over the miniscule amount they let you up or download. :nugget: When the RIAA has even one of the richest men in the world in it's pocket, you're pretty much screwed. :annoyed:

Are you paying attention, NSA? I don't do that anymore! :judge:

 

[hardmen]

Ha... internet connections in certain places in Brazil it's a kind of joke... ...if you live next kn a internet provider (like 5km) you have avaliable more than 100MB of connection, BUT if 5km above... the speed down like Titanic... ...in my house, I have 795kbps and no chances to nothing above...

And the goverment and FIFA an COI go make football worldcup and olympic games here... ...a disaster no doubt...

Cheers.

 

[oldskool69]

Wow. Are those results wireless or cabled ? I got 50- 60 download, but 35-40 upload when direct with the cable. But normally using router all the time and loosing some speed. Here around us the upload is really important for many reasons , lets say for seeding torrents for starters . Sometimes when we are downloading torrent files the speed from the download is faster than the hard drive can write

I have cable service to modem, modem to my router. I have gigabit to my home network when hooked directly to my dual band router and 300+ mbps wireless. The results on my system are via modem, through wi-fi router, then wirelessly to me. I don't have any up or down limits as far as data transfer.

If Charter finds a way to go faster I can match 'em because I minimized any bottleneck against future speed increases. So, if for example they run 250mbps, my network can handle the providers (Charter) higher speeds.

 

[Lasonic TRC-920]

We are 22.17 Mbps Down and 2.25 Up with TWC

 

[Fatdog]

Here's my result:

 

[Beosystem10]

Still waiting for dish or fibreoptic here so meanwhile, we too are penalised for staying so far from civilisation:

 

[oldskool69]

Anyone else try theirs? I'd like to know how it is in other places.

 

[Ken]

'Bout what I thought. What do you expect for $50.00/mo (which for what we require I perceive as plenty.) Maybe a more accurate question is how much as a function of how fast (or vice versa?)