How do you guys have such high d/l and u/l speeds?

I see some of you talk about your download speeds, and a few of you have crazy high Speedtest things in your sigs

where are you getting such great internet? I just got Roadrunner and it's kind of "meh"



bleah! my upload speed isnt even 10% of my download, bleah

 

just be happy
look at mine
and that's normal in Belgium




funny
the 1st one was the recommended server
now I tried another one




3th server




and 4th server



I suppose the roubaix server is limited

this one just for you Americans

 

Lol you're complaining about that? Here's what I got.



It could be that I have Verizon DSL. Maybe that's why it's so horrible?

 

Many people have cable...which costs as boatload but is the most reliable thing I can use

 

Cable won't cost a boatload as long as you take advantage of all the promotions they give you year round.

 

sweet Jesus man!

yeah, stupid Comcast made a deal with Time Warner down here to stay out of each others territory

I would have preferred Comcast, for internet and TV

I guess if I ever move to Washington I'm getting Comcast!

 

Where I live we have Cox cable and they give us some stupid thing called "power boost". All it does is give you about 500 kb/sec more bandwidth over your standard download speed which is ok for downloading something short but it doesn't help with big downloads.

Heres mine


I pay about $40 a month for 6 Mbs connection.

 

what I really want is the upload speeds some of you guys have

closer to 1000kb/s would be nice(rather than a measly ~300)

 

I agree that upload speed is a nice thing to have, good for torrents and online games. Its a shame they never really increase it, they mostly keep the upload speed the same while increasing the download.

You could try calling up and asking them about it but I think they'll just point you toward a business connection. But it doesn't hurt to try though.

As for workarounds, you can leave your computer on to upload stuff and eventually you'll upload enough. As for online games, most MMOs only use 24 KB/s which is within your limit. But hosting games is out of the question though.

 

Here in Vancouver, the highest is 25 Mb/s, but the ISP that provides that is very unreliable (we used to be on that ISP; we paid for 5 Mbp/s, but rarely got 2 Mbp/s).

Right now I'm on another ISP, its maximum speed right now is 5 Mbp/s, but at least its speed is close to what we're paying for.

 

yeah, but at least you're getting 10+% upload to download ratios

ugh, my upload speeds are just horrible! and from what I hear about gaming, that's kiiind of important

 

Are you using DSL? DSL has both horrible download and upload, at least compared to cable.

As for gaming, when your connected to another server your ping matters more then your bandwidth. Some example games are MMOs like World of Warcraft, any FPS like CS.

When you serve games, say for Company of Heroes, then both your upload bandwidth and ping matters. Thats if you're hosting, most of the time the person with the faster connection and computer would host.

Upload bandwidth is mostly used to request data from the server, then data comes from the server down to your download bandwidth, which should be a lot faster. Exceptions are uploading files, like torrents, movies, and various other things up to the internet. If you do a lot of stuff like that then you could be cursing your ISP for the handicap they gave you.

You can probably work with the slower upload, just it'll take longer to do stuff like I said above. Requesting data shouldn't really be slower since it depends on your ping.

 

Mine looks awfully similar to yours!



On a related note, I'd like to get a wireless router for my coming laptop. Would an N-type be overkill with this connection? Money is a concern, as I don't want to just throw it away, but on the other hand, if an N-router costs more but would also last for years and years, it might be worth the investment. What do you guys think? I got the "free" G-card for my laptop so I'd have to factor in the cost of a corresponding card to go with whatever router I get.

 

My old ISP claimed to have speeds faster then 8 MB. We rarely got 512k. We only paid 20 dollars a month so I expected a ''too good to be true'' moment. I now have comcast's 2 MB plan and their service is very reliable and constant. My mom talked them into getting it for 30 dollars a month from their standard 40-50 dollars per month with no contract. I wonder how she did that sometimes...

 

Cable vs. DSL. Both offer the same service, just competing technologies. No one is faster than the other. Both are services that you pay for and you will get the service that you pay for, no more. I pay $12.99 for att DSL (1.5 MB) I can choose 6MB for $35 or 10MB for $65. Cable has the same pricing levels.
Just because you may be paying $20 for a 3 MB line and a neighbor is paying $60 or a 10MB bit line doesnt mean the service he receives is better.

 

my comcast speeds are around 11000 down and 7xx upload... but its very unreliable i cant wait to get rid of it.. its always down and we are always having issues.. and they charge a fortune (58.00 a month) for the unreliable connection... we have fios being installed withing the next month here they finally added it to our streets where i am and we are just waiting for it to be connected to the main connection so they can hook us up... lol they have some crazy speeds offered... and then i can switch out dish network/comcast/and vonage all over onto one bill and save near 50+$ a month with it.. i cant wait..58$ a month is just ridiculous for what we get from it


also with cable remember you dont have a dedicated line just for you... cable shares the bandwith in that area so if all your neighbors are on at the same time it doesnt matter what speed you have your overall bandwith will be limited..

 

i love college



right now i'm at 100Mbps because i'm running it through an ethernet switch which is 10/100 but if i go straight from the wall i get 1Gbps will that make a difference? i'm assuming so.

 

SBC DSL: Los Altos, CA.

As you can see, this is one blazing connection

 

goo gaw man!

 

The thing is that it's usually the people with high connection speeds that talk about their high connection speeds... so you never hear about the folks with more "normal" connection speeds, which, unfortunately, is the vast majority of us.

But hey, I can still remember the days of 56k. A full 1mb/s is amazing by those standards!

 

I'll make my friend run the test on his 28.8k dial-up. Yup, thats right, 28.8k

 

Cable is usually better then DSL, most magazines recommend cable when they compared them awhile ago. I can't really back this up since it would take awhile to find the info but I remember them talking about it.

 

I'm at college right now and this is how fast mine is going, can't compare to yours, but it'll do...



wayy faster here than at home..

 

DSL is hit or miss. To run it needs a clean copper line to the house with no voice lines, no bridge taps, and repeaters. If you get a bad storm and some old telco guy just bridge taps your lines back up, your DSL will go in the crapper. I had that happen and the DSL guys pointed fingers at the phone line guys and vice versus. After 2 months of that BS, I got the high level customer complaint line (thank you regulated TELCO!) and got a full refund and apology. Cable is typically the more stable medium, but you have the shared bus architecture which would suck in an apartment setting.

In the end pick which is best and price wage them against each other. I have 10MB/384k cable for $35/mo. Now I actually only get 7MB down, and sometimes 3MB down under heavy load times.

 

I won the Mega-Millions a while back and had a OC-12 installed

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_Carrier

OC-12 is a network line with transmission speeds of up to 622.08 Mbit/s (payload: 601.344 Mbit/s; overhead: 20.736 Mbit/s).

OC-12 lines are commonly used by ISPs as WAN connections. While a large ISP would not use an OC-12 as a backbone (main link), it would for smaller, regional or local connections. This connection speed is also often used by mid-sized (below Tier 2) internet customers, such as web hosting companies or smaller ISPs buying service from larger ones.

 

congrats, we have Fios and love it. It's pretty fast on the computer that's hooked directly to their router. But the computer i use most often is old, and on wireless through plaster walls, that's why the speeds in my sig are low

 

5mb/s upload! damn

I bet file sharing people must loooove you

 

This is about around average for most people in Australia if you cant get ADSL2+ in your area.



And I pay $69.95 [AU] (about $57USD) a month for this...

 

This is how Comcast runs on a Wi-Fi network at the very edge of said broadcasted network (1 pip of signal strength)


when i am able to move closer to the modem and get a full bar signal i will upload another test, and i also have ClearWire Wireless DSL Broadband when i hook that modem up i will give you a test run with it also. oh and for Comcast Users Please check this out.... Comcast Cuts BandWith Hogs

 

This is what I get here in WI

 

this is my speed at my house


Last Result:
Download Speed: 30982 kbps (3872.8KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 4518 kbps (564.8 KB/sec transfer rate)

 

i think my speed sucks

 

Well, I'm on 512k. It works fine for me as I don't download a lot. I live in a rural area. When I first got here, I was paying $65 a month for 400k. When I lived in the big town, I paid half as much for 5x the speed. Now I got 512k for $20 a month. I'm a happy camper.

 

Mine at home:

 

Belgium FAI. >_<

 

At home, in the UK...



Its fast enough for me...

 

how is this? what speed does it mean i have

 

It's good, but you also have Comcast, and by those speeds they rolled out powerboost in your area. Those speeds scale down right around the time the test ends to your rated speeds. Everytime i see high Comcast results i always disregard them because of powerboost, it's easy to spot. I know around here Comcast offers an 8mb package, but people post rates well over 15mb from test sites

 

Verizon Fios, 20m/5m

 

hot diggity!

 

Mine is 3655 and 554

 

Verizon FiOS, 5mbps/2mbps



Lucky for me fiber optics is available in my area. I switched from Comcast, 3mbps/256kbps at $57.95 per month. Verizon is faster and $23 cheaper per month.

THIS IS MY FIRST POST!!!

 

Exactly. And there seems to be a new promotion every single month.