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    Can you beat this speed?

    Discussion in 'Networking and Wireless' started by manatails, Sep 24, 2010.

  1. manatails

    manatails Notebook Enthusiast

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    [​IMG]

    my speedtest.net result
     
    manatails, Sep 24, 2010
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  2. JWBlue

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    How the heck did you get that? Are you hard wired to the modem?

    Do pages explode on the screen?
     
    JWBlue, Sep 26, 2010
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  3. crazycanuk

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    easy :D hes in South Korea, his ISP is the giveaway. SK, most of asia and 2/3 of europe are a crapload faster than North America for internet speed. no lousy 25 or 50 Mbps for lots of the world nowadays
     
    crazycanuk, Sep 26, 2010
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  4. H.A.L. 9000

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    Yep, and it's fiber, as nothing else available to consumers has a ping that low.
     
    H.A.L. 9000, Sep 26, 2010
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  5. newsposter

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    fiber to the premises means nothing if your national, international, and peering links are crap.

    this is the problem with speedtest.net. all it really tests is your local/regional domain.
     
    newsposter, Sep 26, 2010
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  6. crazycanuk

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    yep, and the OP is sitting on one of the worlds best linkups nationally and internationally. boy do I miss the business rooms in Seoul for speed.
     
    crazycanuk, Sep 26, 2010
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  7. sgogeta4

    sgogeta4 Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    :D My friend can :p
     

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  8. JWBlue

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    I can't even imagine that speed.

    Is there zero lag when pressing a link? Do all images just immediately appear on the screen?
     
    JWBlue, Sep 26, 2010
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  9. Nick

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    Why doesn't the US have this yet?
     
    Nick, Sep 26, 2010
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  10. H.A.L. 9000

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    Most of the internet doesn't move that quick. That connection is bottlenecked because it's faster than most other parts of the internet can dish out information.
     
    H.A.L. 9000, Sep 26, 2010
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  11. Amnesiac

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    I would have thought at that point you would be more bottlenecked by how fast your CPU can render the pages.
     
    Amnesiac, Sep 26, 2010
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  12. sgogeta4

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    Depends on the website's host, most are slower than those connections and your computer.
     
    sgogeta4, Sep 26, 2010
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    i just look at my speed and feel like a failure :D
     
    sean473, Sep 27, 2010
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  14. Bearclaw

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    You could get a really fast speed if you ping yourself...
    Pretty sure many people do that.
     
    Bearclaw, Sep 27, 2010
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  15. downloads

    downloads No, Dee Dee, no! Super Moderator

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    And how would you obtain a result with the image hosted on a speedtest server and showing your ISP distance to the server and speed of the server if you had tested latency on your own router?
     
    downloads, Sep 27, 2010
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  16. AboutThreeFitty

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    How much does something like that cost?
     
    AboutThreeFitty, Sep 27, 2010
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  17. Przn4lif3

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    lol are those speeds legal?
     
    Przn4lif3, Sep 27, 2010
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  18. crazycanuk

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    certantly are !!!!
     
    crazycanuk, Sep 27, 2010
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  19. newsposter

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    also, it's hard to beat Photoshop for posting up screen shots of 'speed'.
     
    newsposter, Sep 28, 2010
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  20. downloads

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    Are you implying something? The image with OP's results is hosted on speedtest.net server which makes it legit.
     
    downloads, Sep 28, 2010
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    Why? It's neither of our faults that we live in areas with appalling internet. Be glad you don't live somewhere like Tanzania, or Nigeria, with no internet.
     
    Amnesiac, Sep 28, 2010
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  22. newsposter

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    What I'm saying is that in the absence of other tests for bandwidth and latency, performed multiple times over a long period of time, a simple speed test like speedtest.net isn't worth the pixels used to display the result.
     
    newsposter, Sep 28, 2010
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  23. granyte

    granyte ATI+AMD -> DAAMIT

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    holly when runing at 7 mb my cpu start fanning cause intel 5300's driver uses to much cpu when runing at high speed


    with such a speed my cpu would just blow
     
    granyte, Sep 28, 2010
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    @OP nice!

    for some reason, i get like 118mbps on speedtest.net and i only pay for 25mbps FIOS - it definitely has problems sometimes
     
    timtravel42, Sep 28, 2010
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  25. thundernet

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    It doesn't sound right.It souldn't be like that.I run at 24mbps with Intel 5100 and there is nothing happening to my CPU.
     
    thundernet, Sep 29, 2010
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  26. manatails

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    i did speedtest again
    [​IMG]
     
    manatails, Oct 2, 2010
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  27. H.A.L. 9000

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    Your upload is lacking. :p
     
    H.A.L. 9000, Oct 2, 2010
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  28. Trottel

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    Not bad. Could you please try a server in the US?
     
    Trottel, Oct 2, 2010
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