What is your internet speed?

[Vultch]

I work for an ISP so I see the variations on available speeds to our different contracts and it makes me curious.

For me personally, years back I had dialup, then went to 0.6M DSL and about 2 years ago it went to 1.5M and as of next Friday I'm getting upped to 7M. WOOOOO Let the media whoring begin.... errr continue.


If you don't know what speed you're getting, take the speedtest:
http://www.speakeasy.net/speedtest/
ex: 1500kbps = 1.5M or 3000 = 3M

Round up to your closest result.

[KULPDOGG]

8.69ish

I have Cable and a wireless router attached, so i donno if that's affecting it..


edit:
sorry..
Download Speed: 8692 kbps (1086.5 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 386 kbps (48.3 KB/sec transfer rate)

so... thats 10+ ?

[tylor2000]

I have about 8 down and 700 up....but I always have files transfer slower than that because of the other end.  I usually download at between 200 and 500 for each file.

[PutYourHandsOnMe101]

I took the test and I got 4854 kbps so I guess that rounds up to 5...

[Steveau]

mine is nearly 6M

[tylor2000]

Where is a good place to download a real file to see how fast your speed really is?  Maybe a place to download a large file similiar to what a movie would be.  I have yet to download at what my max is.

[Gina]

well the school internet sucks, so here it's 2.9 haha.  At home, I'm not really sure, but I know for a fact it's at the very least, twice as fast.

[Manda]

well my wireless connection is only 1.5, but I have a DSL router which goes pretty fast which is on the computer downstairs that I don't really use anymore. I had to upgrade my computer and get a faster router when I used to play RPG's.

[Vultch]

at work here I get 5M. We got 6 T1s coming to the corporate office.

[zurielshimon]

According to the test, my connection with the Atlanta server gives me 131 kbps down and 103 kbps up, which is really close to the 115.2 kbps either way  I'm theoretically supposed to have.

[Vultch]

According to the test, my connection with the Atlanta server gives me 131 kbps down and 103 kbps up, which is really close to the 115.2 kbps either way  I'm theoretically supposed to have.

wow... is that like an oldschool ISDN line?

[itsthefiveofus]

eh either way I used to have Dial Up...sucked soooo much and I just hated it soo much took 3 freaking hours to download a freaking song from the iTunes music store don't get me started on music vid's that took longer than we got AT&T Yahoo. That made my year.

[Vultch]

Well that sucks..... the upgrade happened today. From 1.5 to 7M.
Actual speed on the XP computer, little over 5Meg (still good, I'm not complaining), actual speed on my main computer which uses Win98... still 1.5, turns out Win98 caps at 1.5! ugh! I think I need to upgrade to a better computer. lol

[B]

Well that sucks..... the upgrade happened today. From 1.5 to 7M.
Actual speed on the XP computer, little over 5Meg (still good, I'm not complaining), actual speed on my main computer which uses Win98... still 1.5, turns out Win98 caps at 1.5! ugh! I think I need to upgrade to a better computer. lol

FAIL! lol

My computer is at 5M which isn't bad, but that does suck Win98 caps out at 1.5. Why do you use such an old computer? :lol

[Jessica]

i am the biggest nerd when it comes to computers and can figure out how to do anything, yet the way the internet works is something that continues to baffle me.