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What's your internet speed?


Brian the Automator

Just got U-Verse installed yesterday (very positive experience so far), and I'm getting much better speeds all-day long than my Roadrunner service.

http://www.speedtest.net/result/346194607.png

Curious as to who's got what kinds of speeds from their providers?... and no running this from your workplace, as I'm sure many of you have T1's, and that's cheating http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/smile.gif

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T1 is only 1.5 Mbps up/down. The upload is good, but the download speed doesn't cut it nowadays. The real plus with T1 is reliability.

 

My service at home is terrible, I need to get cable in here. I'm getting 3.5 Mbps down on Embarq DSL.

 

I was working at a huge data center in town yesterday, the office network there has a 100Mbps connection to the web. I was in heaven. That is really nothing though compared to the bandwidth that goes through that building, 800Gbps. Yes, you read that right. 800,000,000Kbps.

 

http://www.switchnap.com/ - I was working at the SuperNAP - highest density data center in the world. The place takes more electricity than three of the mega-casinos on the strip combined.

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http://www.speedtest.net/result/346208453.png

 

This is DSL ten miles out into the country. This doesn't match the others above, but it sure beats the dialup I had to use up until last week.

 

Do you know of a way to test a specific web site? I'd love to test the Yuku boards.

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Ahh crap, and here I thought they just gave me the best internet package because they made a mistake.

I certainly hope you got some free stuff for switching to them. I got six free months of the U-400 package when I first got it.

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Dumb question: When am I downloading vs. uploading?
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Dumb question: When am I downloading vs. uploading?

 

Most users are pretty much always downloading... getting web pages, streaming video & audio, etc... Uploading is sending the request to GET the web page you want (which is very small)... Where uploading comes into play is when you're running a server off your machine, or you're using some sort of p2p file sharing.

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Where uploading comes into play is when you're running a server off your machine, or you're using some sort of p2p file sharing.

 

Wouldn't uploading also come into play when sending e-mail attachments, putting files on photobucket, etc.?

That’s the only thing Chicago’s good for: to tell people where Wisconsin is.

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Wouldn't uploading also come into play when sending e-mail attachments, putting files on photobucket, etc.?
Yes also when you playing any computer game or making a post like right now. Though all of them use very little bandwidth for uploading. Downloading takes more and that is the reason why you get more download than you get upload.
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