Connection Speed Test
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Mr. Sir
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Rotax Robert
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home pc
OK, so what is considered realy fast? I live out in the sticks. Mostly
Fir, Hemlock and Alder. Don't think we have this ultra high speed thing out here yet, except for saws and our usual morning wood
Just the same somebody put it all in english "kb/s I know, I think" but wtf is "ping" and what ever else that is involved with a fast connection. Seems from my prior post on my work computer I could get faster from other cities than within 50 miles that mine said would work best. work was around 8000 both ways and I found other places I could go 12,000+
Just curious... Anyway since I learned how to get this inbed stuff, and that is where I am heading ,I need to know.
below is from my house
Rotax Robert
OK, so what is considered realy fast? I live out in the sticks. Mostly
Fir, Hemlock and Alder. Don't think we have this ultra high speed thing out here yet, except for saws and our usual morning wood
Just the same somebody put it all in english "kb/s I know, I think" but wtf is "ping" and what ever else that is involved with a fast connection. Seems from my prior post on my work computer I could get faster from other cities than within 50 miles that mine said would work best. work was around 8000 both ways and I found other places I could go 12,000+
Just curious... Anyway since I learned how to get this inbed stuff, and that is where I am heading ,I need to know.
below is from my house
Rotax Robert
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che
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29 & 59 kbps, this time. 
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Rotax Robert
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OK, so what is considered realy fast? I live out in the sticks. Mostly
Fir, Hemlock and Alder. Don't think we have this ultra high speed thing out here yet, except for saws and our usual morning wood
Just the same somebody put it all in english "kb/s I know, I think" but wtf is "ping" and what ever else that is involved with a fast connection. Seems from my prior post on my work computer I could get faster from other cities than within 50 miles that mine said would work best. work was around 8000 both ways and I found other places I could go 12,000+
Just curious... Anyway since I learned how to get this inbed stuff, and that is where I am heading ,I need to know.
below is from my house
Rotax Robert
I thought nobody would know
Paul B
I dig hammocks.
my guess is ping is the time it takes for a server to acknowledge your system trying to access it, sorta like sonar?
its a teensy file I would assume or cookie or sorta idea I am thinking. My speed is about the same as your readout there Rotax. been the same reading here for about 6 or 7 years, two different households, same ISP.
its a teensy file I would assume or cookie or sorta idea I am thinking. My speed is about the same as your readout there Rotax. been the same reading here for about 6 or 7 years, two different households, same ISP.
SkwerI
Treehouser
'ping' is the time it takes the signal to travel from the server to your computer. A higher ping rate indicates a bigger lag time.
sotc
Dormant hero!!
NickfromWI
King of Splices
Alright, I just moved to a new place. I'm stealing wireless from somone and it is slooooooooow. It varies in a few places around the house. I ordered DSL Elite from ATT yesterday, and it get's hooked up tomorrow. I wanted to do a couple speed tests now, then again tomorrow to see the difference.
Here are some tests from 2 locations in the new place.
I have to go find out how many megabits in a kilobit now.
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nick
Here are some tests from 2 locations in the new place.
I have to go find out how many megabits in a kilobit now.
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nick
NickfromWI
King of Splices
So I just learned from google that 840 kilobit = 0.8203125 megabit.
Even though windows told me I had a 24.0 mbps. Whatever.
So I signed up for the Elite 6.0 megabits service from ATT. If I am getting .82mbps right now, when I am up to speed, google says 6 megabit = 6,144 kilobit which will be WAY faster than what I am dealing with now. About 7.3 times faster....
yee haw!!!
I wish I was in a verizon FiOS service area....
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nick
Even though windows told me I had a 24.0 mbps. Whatever.
So I signed up for the Elite 6.0 megabits service from ATT. If I am getting .82mbps right now, when I am up to speed, google says 6 megabit = 6,144 kilobit which will be WAY faster than what I am dealing with now. About 7.3 times faster....
yee haw!!!
I wish I was in a verizon FiOS service area....
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nick
rumination
Migratory Hippie Arbolist
What's FiOS?
NickfromWI
King of Splices
Fiber Optics. http://www22.verizon.com/content/consumerfios/packages+and+prices/packages+and+prices.htm
You can get $peed$ up to 30mbps!!! (it's expensive)
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nick
You can get $peed$ up to 30mbps!!! (it's expensive)
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nick
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Mike Maas
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The windows number, I think, is the speed your wireless card is capable of, it doesn't have to do with your connection speed.
squisher
THE CALM ONE!!!!
The term is piggybacking, I'd never steal from a neighbor. So you're gonna spend how much a month for faster internet? I'm saving six to eight hundred a year right now.
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RaisedByWolves
Guest
Not too bad.
NickfromWI
King of Splices
I am hooked up now. Not wireless, yet. I didn't have time to chat with them online about that yet. This doesn't seem much faster.
Hmmm....
rumination
Migratory Hippie Arbolist
Steve, that is really slow. What kind of connection do you have?
SkwerI
Treehouser
If your result seems slow, then try a couple different test servers. The Orlando server is horrible but I get great numbers when I test on the Atlanta server.
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Mike Maas
Guest
I had to do some trouble shooting and learned a few things.
First is the time of day, it's like driving, when traffic is high you slow down.
Another thing is a wireless router will slow you way down.
I also learned my modem was bad, so I had that replaced.
I got my best speed up to about 15Mbs, but after the wireless router and in normal traffic it's about 3Mbs.
First is the time of day, it's like driving, when traffic is high you slow down.
Another thing is a wireless router will slow you way down.
I also learned my modem was bad, so I had that replaced.
I got my best speed up to about 15Mbs, but after the wireless router and in normal traffic it's about 3Mbs.
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Mike Maas
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The other thing is the wireless card in my computer was old and it was only rated at 11Mbs, so that was limiting. The newer ones are mostly 54Mbs, that's the number you see when you put your mouse over the connection icon.
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Mr. Sir
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This seems pretty good. It's about 150% faster than last year.
