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Internet: How fast is fast enough?
First, feel free to share your current internet speed. But also, let us know what speed you're supposed to be getting "up to."  This is was my best result in about 10 tests. The package I'm paying for is supposed to be "up to 105 Mbps." So I'm getting about 30-40% of that. Is that good enough? I'm thinking no. How's your internet speed? www.speedtest.net Aug 13 14 11:02 am Link I feel ripped off totally unacceptable I am paying for 60 and this is what I am getting  Update: Tried it again a few hours later and this is the result much more like what is supposed to be   Aug 13 14 11:07 am Link  supposed to be 50/25 Aug 13 14 11:17 am Link Ping: 56ms out of LA Download speed: 1.31 Mbps Upload: 0.30 Mbps AT&T hardwire DSL here for a mere $71/month (They did another rate hike last month.). Can't get fiber optic speeds due to underground copper wiring, and too far from "Their switch" or whatever they call the issue. Hence, no U-verse possible. Plus, my internet speed - or lack of internet at times - seems based on the neighbor's watering of their lawns and burying the signal in the mud from crummy wiring connections underground. When they patch, they tear up the lawns (One crew digs, then the splicers show up a few days later, then the diggers come back and fill it in.). They tied my mailbox (dug up as part of "The service access hole") to a streetlight and made a pile of dirt for the mailwoman to climb up on to put mail into it, which she complained about for a couple of weeks. Then they came back for an "Encore digging performance" when they managed to cut off the neighbor's service in the process of fixing mine. It's all subcontracted out to various crews now and takes forever. "The Cloud" anything here is a joke, as are 95% of Youtube videos that stall out. Only other available ISP is cable (Don't have it. Had satellite.), and that line is wrecked under a driveway (PG&E's Ditch Witch crew threw their box across the street.) and they'd have to tear it out to get at it. They put a manhole cover in neighbor's driveway and it sunk maybe 4" so its sort of a hazard to drive over it so I'm not leaning that way. /rant Aug 13 14 11:24 am Link This is fucking unacceptable. It's going to hinder my chances of getting into a good raiding guild in the fall.  I guess that's what I get for choosing the very cheapest Internet I could find. Aug 13 14 11:27 am Link Alabaster Crowley wrote: I'm surprised you can play more than Words with Friends at that speed... Aug 13 14 11:29 am Link Brian Diaz wrote: I actually haven't attempted to play a real game yet, because I'm taking a break, but I know it's not going to go well. Fuck. Aug 13 14 11:31 am Link Brian Diaz wrote: Evidently, you don't read the fine print: Aug 13 14 11:58 am Link I did a speediest the other day but didn't screen shot the results. I pay for 12, I get 12. I also live in a relatively small town and don't pay much. Its fast enough for what I do, so I'm pretty kosher with the speed. Though I wouldn't mind faster upload speed... Aug 13 14 11:59 am Link Well, I am still using 9600 Baub Hayes Modem, and I got this sucky number. LOL  Aug 13 14 12:00 pm Link I'm getting my full speed, and then some...  Aug 13 14 12:08 pm Link Is there actually anything I can do to improve my speed? Like it's stupid low compared to everyone else in this thread. Aug 13 14 12:25 pm Link Connor Photography wrote: This is just about what I am getting. Aug 13 14 12:27 pm Link Brian Diaz wrote: Those are a little lower than the numbers that I get but I am on a package which has a 50mb download speed. One thing though, I am on a business package, not a residential. I think that with my package, I get a guaranteed minimum speed. I think for the residential packages they are listed as "speeds up to." I don't know if your package is business or residential. Aug 13 14 12:29 pm Link GRMACK wrote: wow, not only slower than me, but more expensive. I'm on Clearwire, and Aug 13 14 12:29 pm Link Connor Photography wrote: Aug 13 14 12:36 pm Link real question is...how fast is the site you're connected to? That recent archive stuff that adode put out was 894megs I think. I downloaded early in the morning and it took about 70 seconds. I've had 100 meg files take longer People always forget that...you can have 500mps download but you are throttled by whatever it is that your connecting to. Also... your 'puter matters. After I upgraded the video card in my old computer I could surf pages a LOT fast. 2x as fast...probably 3x as fast...it just plain loaded the pages faster. but this is what I get with comcast residential:  Aug 13 14 12:36 pm Link I was thinking clearwire, but their service seems hit and miss from the local yelp reviews. People often like to say "look at______ they have 2x the speed for less. They also have 5-10x the population density A lot easier to wire a MDU than houses. Aug 13 14 12:37 pm Link  Mine is pretty good - I'm on a recently rebuilt Comcast system with a "fiber to the node" architecture that always gives this kind of performance. Aug 13 14 12:53 pm Link  ^ At work  At home I have a 5MBps (4-7 averages) and it's more than enough for me and my wife. I'd get 10/15 if it was available, but it's either 5 or 50 here. Aug 13 14 01:09 pm Link I am in internet HELL !!!  Aug 13 14 01:26 pm Link Brooklyn Bridge Images wrote: Almost as bad as me. Aug 13 14 01:26 pm Link  Aug 13 14 01:30 pm Link Alabaster Crowley wrote: I was thinking I could win prize for slowest, but you beat me Aug 13 14 01:34 pm Link Brooklyn Bridge Images wrote: Yeah, mine is awful. It's constantly freezing on videos. I'm actually dreading going back to gaming, as much as I want to, I know it won't be the same. Aug 13 14 01:35 pm Link  Aug 13 14 02:06 pm Link Landlord provided internet  Aug 13 14 03:30 pm Link Orestes wrote: omfg, can I have like a few? You don't need that many. Aug 13 14 03:32 pm Link There are two basic factors that govern network connection quality: response time and bandwidth. Response time is how long it takes one packet to go from your computer to your final destination computer. Bandwidth is how much data you can fit through the "narrowest" point in the cable. If you chat or play games, then response time is important, use a ping function to check the response time. If you want to download large objects, then bandwidth is more important. The problem with web pages now is that they contain so much junk, an average of 1 to 2MB width of total data transferred with just maybe less than a hundred meaningful bytes (characters) of information relevant to what you really need. In other words, most (commercial) web pages contain junk data that is transferred for no meaningful reason (other than perhaps ads). You can check this by opening your network settings and look for something called statistics or number of bytes transferred. Mark the number you have an open your favorate web page. Check how much data you transferred after it finishes loading. Then actually read how much text on the page was meaningful to you. (each character is 1 byte). Aug 13 14 03:53 pm Link I think our plan is up to 9 and I got 8.92.  Aug 13 14 03:57 pm Link  I'm in the arctic right now, so...yeah. Aug 13 14 04:00 pm Link Orestes wrote: WTF Aug 13 14 04:01 pm Link -JAY- wrote: is that university internet? 90% of the internet is taken up by education and government, is what i heard as a rumor..then whatever is remaining is for commercial use. Aug 13 14 04:02 pm Link Eclectic Vision wrote: that seems pretty good and you only got a D+, I'm sure mine must be Aug 13 14 04:14 pm Link -JAY- wrote: Problem is, most folks don't know the difference between Mb and MB. The companies advertise 15Mbps, and people assume MegaBytes when the reality is Mega Bits. So the assumption is that they think they are getting 15 Mega Bytes per second. Aug 13 14 05:04 pm Link Orestes wrote: Solas wrote: I think he got that from PS Aug 13 14 05:49 pm Link Gryph wrote: This is a good point that you mentioned. I never thought about this. Aug 13 14 05:53 pm Link Connor Photography wrote: Orestes wrote: I think he got that from PS
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