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The Asylum has seemed a little slow lately so I found a web site to test my download/upload speeds (link below)
Download was 15.52 Mbps and upload speed 1.03 Mbps Does that sound about right for a cable connection? The pages are taking longer than normal to load. I often just get a blank white page.
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Just installed TalkTalk Fibre optic Download speed now 33.52 at 7.20 am BT Engineer measured it at 40 ? will be interested to read measurement in the evening. Package cost per month incl free International calls & free 24/7 local calls £32.95 for 6 months then increases to £37.95.
Edits: 07/23/14 07/23/14
Over a hundred down, not much up.
http://mindseyemusic.blogspot.com/
Mine was 32.2 down and 5 up using UV Realtime. AT&T which is not the best.Calc raw was 43,462 KBPS and Calc User was 34,690 KBPS
Jim Tavegia
Edits: 07/11/14
With your AT&T test if was 17.28 down and 1.81 up. I wonder why such a difference from UV Real Time?
Jim Tavegia
Speed test showed about 900Mbps upload tonight, and 100Mbps download (but this is the speed test limit for the test site I use - it's about the same speed.
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download 14.72mbps upload 0.1Provider: Insight communications company (time warner) ping 1ms.
I pay $105.00 a month, cable and router included.
server is in chicago
Edits: 07/08/14
Sue, I have been in telecom for 10 years and deal with this kind of question every day. If you are interested in a long explanation let me know and I will be happy to write one.
To keep it simple; 15 mbps down is considered a fast connection. This is above the threshold for most DSL services and you can easily stream HD video over this speed.
1 mbps second up is slow, it is not terrible. Most decent cables services should be able to hit 5 mbps on the uplink in a basic tier plan.
If you are having issues web browsing I would be inclined to guess there is something else going on other than your Internet connection that is slowing you down.
It varies during the day depending on what others in the neighborhood are doing. It's slower in the evening when the Netflix streams are flowing. I've seen over 100Mbs download speed during the daytime.
nt
"If the audio industry built gear that sounded as good as it did 50 years ago, there would NEVER be a need to re-issued anything!"
Sorry couldn't help myself.
25 and 10 now.
Edits: 07/06/14
Cox Communication
Getting 26.32 down and 5.2 up using your test site. Your speeds are not too bad, but could certainly be better. You may also want to try SpeedTest.net for a 2nd opinion....
-CD-
Cut and paste from the interwebs.
Remember, latency is the amount time required to travel the path from one location to another. Bandwidth is how much data can be moved in parallel along that path.
Eo better illustrate how latency is not affected by bandwidth, I will use an example from Stuart Cheshire’s excellent 1996 essay, "It’s the Latency, Stupid." The physical distance from Boston, Massachusetts to Stanford University in California is 4320 kilometers. The speed of light traveling through a fiber optic data cable is 200,000 km/s. (compared to 300,000 km/s in a vacuum). So the travel time for a single photon of light to travel across a direct fiber optic connection from Boston to Stanford is 4320 km / 200,000 km/s = 21.6 milliseconds. The round-trip time to Boston and back is 43.2 milliseconds. These are fundamental laws of nature. You will never get something to travel faster than that. There will always be a delay of at least 43.2 ms when Boston communicates with Stanford.
In practice, however, the latency delay is more than 43.2 ms. This is because we do not have a single continuous piece of fiber optic cable connecting Boston and Stanford. Instead, the path goes through several segments along the way where dozens of pieces of networking equipment add to the delay. Regardless of how big and powerful that Cisco router is, it is not functioning at the speed of light! Typically, the Boston to Stanford route is on the order of 75-85 milliseconds.
cocktail + sweet spot = fun and relaxation!
And those so inclined.
http://www.wikihow.com/Test-Network-and-Internet-Latency-(Lag)-in-Microsoft-Windows
cocktail + sweet spot = fun and relaxation!
I think you are confusing bandwidth, upload and download, with latency. 2 different things. The former is what you buy and is marketed, and that is what people know. From what VERY LITTLE I know the latter is hard to calculate and can be out of the data providers control.
cocktail + sweet spot = fun and relaxation!
More accurate for my location...
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Sox
Depends on where I am. When I'm at my city place (SF) it's 55Mbps down, about 10Mbps up, for $35/month! But when I'm at my country place (in the bonnies) it is slow, usually 2Mbps down, a little better up. BUT, it can and often is much slower. The ISP has a weasel clause in their contract:"up to", so they say TS! And, it's $69/month, and they don't allow streaming. The owner of the service believes streaming is amoral, not green, and thus bad for the planet because all those server farms consume too much energy! If you break the rules, you risk being cut off. His business motto "WE DON'T WANT ANY UNHAPPY CUSTOMERS-IF YOU ARE UNHAPPY, GO SOMEWHERE ELSE." Unfortunately, there is nowhere else to go.
Freeway 75-80mph when I can get away with it ,main surface streets around here 50-60mph :^) As far as internet speed, fast enough that I have no complaints.
Joe
I said empty.
If you don't become the ocean, you'll be seasick every day.
—Leonard Cohen
but my internet is fine.
enjoy,
mark
fds
We've got a bit more area to cover and lot of space is rural. Fiber is not to be found everywhere.
you have an open mind.
Excerpt:
"At The New Yorker, John Cassidy argued last month:What we need is a new competition policy that puts the interests of consumers first, seeks to replicate what other countries have done, and treats with extreme skepticism the arguments of monopoly incumbents such as Comcast and Time Warner Cable. [The New Yorker]"
Edits: 07/07/14
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Chosen speed by suppliers.
AT&T has fiber hubs located in my small college town, but the trick now is running it house to house!
... Land area is not your strong point :)
I do agree with your point about land size and fiber not being everywhere.
Japan, Scandinavia AND Texas doesn't fit into Queensland BUT it is a lot closer fit than Japan & Scandinavia fitting into Texas.
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Sox
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the beauty of free-market capitalism...
"the beauty of free-market capitalism..."
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"Diversity is the law of nature; no two entities in this universe are uniform." - P.R. Sarkar
...and it could be argued that a few of them actually benefit from speeds that can't support hi def video. But that's probably another subject for another thread.
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Comcast in Atl, GA area.
Best regards,
Jim Smith
for upgraded service??
Standard Comcast - no extra charge - 9 months ago it was 27 down, then went to 57 down.I am in Cumming, GA, about 25 miles north of Atlanta.
Three weeks ago it went to 121 down - no notice - no extra charges - AFAIK.
Always monitored with speedtest.net
Best regards,
Jim Smith
Edits: 07/06/14
I have similar experience in new england. Crapcast sent a new router (Free), speeds went from 30mbs down /5mbps up to about 130 down, 35 up.
still, I have about 150+ in both directions at work, which is even better.
Nope - still $39.95 with Comcast.
Best regards,
Jim Smith
Careful Sue-
some of the inmates may go into withdrawl...
nt
By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.
Galileo Galilei
3 megs down, 384K up isn't bad. And I mean podunk. The population of our town was 355 in the 2010 census.
ET
...that you're damn lucky to have DSL at all, since I'm currently dealing with a similar issue at my cabin. The latest attempt at a solution is a cellular amplifier with an external antenna to allow me to tether the cell phones. Marginal results, but better than before.
And I'd say you are right. I am grateful.
ET
My DSL in North San Diego County was awful at 2.5 down. And I'm NOT rural,
When I had Dialup, I would hook up at 28.8 (K) and sometimes in the 30s.
My mother lived in a town next to a town that wasn't even on the map and I could hook up THERE at about 47k, which is about as fast as it would go…in 'them days'.
Too much is never enough
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mine is download 13 upload 1.8
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Have Fun and Enjoy the Music
"Still Working the Problem"
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2.88 DL and .48 UL. Yeah, like streaming HI-REZ or DSD is ever gonna happen for me in out state Missouri. I could pay even more for 10 m service, but that's the absolute tops and I'm already paying a lot for my DSL service. As you can tell, I'm not part of the "download audio nation"
... It's not how fast or slow one is but how one plays with what one has.
Or something like that.
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Sox
Not if you need to use the Internet for work. :-)
Tony Lauck
"Diversity is the law of nature; no two entities in this universe are uniform." - P.R. Sarkar
Virgin Media UK
This site is frequently quite slow to load though.
My Broadband slow speeds from TalkTalk at 7 am UK time is only Download 6.16 mbps , Upload 0.44 mbps However download speed can drop as low as 2.5 mbps in the evenings when most go online. However these slow speeds are not a problem unless one is trying to stream or download movies from free sites like Movies HD ,that also can introduce a Virus so best avoided. Higher speeds are available but at much higher cost.
Edits: 07/02/14 07/02/14
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"E burres stigano"
Just for grins try rebooting your computer and resetting your cable modem. Your internet download / upload speeds seem slow to me compared to typical cable internet.
Also note that the website you chose to test your speed actually seems to be reporting on the low side.
Try: http://speedtest.net
P.S. I'm getting about 30Mbs down / 10Mbs up
indifferent.
I could sit here for a long time, re-ping and average it out, but that's all you get for now.
Good luck!
"Once this was all Black Plasma and Imagination" - Michael McClure
Somethings amiss, I have much better here in the woods. Time to investigate.
ET
If he's only paying for 1meg then the only thing to investigate is other ISP purchase options available to him in his area.
Tre'
Have Fun and Enjoy the Music
"Still Working the Problem"
He lives in a larger metro area. I didn't even know that slow a spped was an option. I'm 7 miles from my town of 355 in WV and my DSL is 3 megs down 384K up.
ET
" I didn't even know that slow a spped was an option"
You might be right.
I didn't think about it that way.
Tre'
Have Fun and Enjoy the Music
"Still Working the Problem"
NT
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TWC, Midtown Manhattan- 112.43 down, 11.21 up. Even during a big thunderstorm...
AA IS running very slow for me today, 7/3 4:58 E
Edits: 07/03/14
25mb+down and nearly 6mb UP.
Too much is never enough
With the linked site, the DL is ~30 Mbps, the UL is ~20 Mbps.......
With this site , the DL is ~64 Mbps, the UL is ~12 Mbps........
Yes, between the two sites - at least in the case of my setup - there's close to a 30 mbps variation in download speed. On the OP's site my upload speeds are between 70 & 80, via the oolka site over 100 - upload speed measurements are much closer.
so it is 3 and 1/2 megabytes per second for me. 35/35 up down mbps.
I pay $125 for that including my land line per month. I am on a FTTH (Fiber to the household) connection. Once the fiber reaches my house it gets converted over to ethernet. I would love my whole house to be pure fiber so I can get 1000GBPS. Maybe someday.
No. I am not sure where you are or what company you are using but - according to the test you linked - I am getting 72.48 Mbps download & 10.59 Mbps upload through a cable connection. I'd run some tests to see what might be slowing things down at your end (programs using lots of memory or bandwidth etc.) & then give your cable company a call.
Comcast, lowest speed tier. And they charge $40/month for the privilege.
It's almost 10X the speed I get out here in the boonies, being almost 5 miles from Toronto, a small Canadian city.
AA pages load instantly for me, so it ain't your download speed that's the problem.
That is silly slow!
I only pay for 10 and get around 14. I could have 120 if I wanted to pay for it.
So I'm not sure what you mean by "silly slow".
Is this internet speed snobbery on your part?
Tre'
Have Fun and Enjoy the Music
"Still Working the Problem"
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