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    Speed Test

    Discussion in 'Networking and Wireless' started by grazzt, Aug 5, 2007.

  1. grazzt

    grazzt Notebook Consultant

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    So I found this site www.wugnet.com and they have a free speed test. Just curious to how others may fair.

    ISP: COMCAST
    LAPTOP: on wireless G Linksys (1000 kbps Download/400 kbps Upload)
    Desktop: ethernet to Lynksys (1300 kbps Download/460 kbps Upload)

    This a typically difference between 2 systems? I thought my router was too slow... but it looks like my service is. I should be hitting up to 3000 kbps on the line.

    grazzt
     
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    blue68f100 Notebook Virtuoso

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    Comcast is normally 6mbps up.

    Download CableNut and aux pack then select the settings that best respersents your connection. And see if that helps.
     
    blue68f100, Aug 6, 2007
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  3. bearz313

    bearz313 Notebook Guru

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    You can't get anywhere close to 6mbps from Comcast in my area.
    Try this ...
    http://www.dslreports.com/tweaks
    Click on the start button under the Java Tweak Tool.
    It will point out the weakness in the your computer's TCP stack.
     
    bearz313, Aug 6, 2007
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  4. glisk

    glisk Notebook Guru

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    I tried several free speed test sites over the weekend and I found that the download and uplink speeds depend on the latency between you and the server used to conduct the speed test. I also have comcast cable and i regularly get 6-8Mb download and 1.7Mb upload
     
    glisk, Aug 6, 2007
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    glisk Notebook Guru

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    Oh, also i am using the Linksys WRT54GL wireless router and the speeds reported are over the wireless connection
     
    glisk, Aug 6, 2007
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    Wireless will not give you true speed readings. Used wired to confirm.
     
    blue68f100, Aug 6, 2007
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    check out speedtest.com, its much less convoluted.
     
    panteedropper, Aug 6, 2007
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    On my wireless, my laptop can... If im lucky, download at about 2 meg/s

    But on my Desktop, i can download at least 3 mb/s

    But yeah, in my sig, you will see that i too, can not upload at 10 megs/s like what i pay for.
     
    IIIM3, Aug 6, 2007
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  9. grazzt

    grazzt Notebook Consultant

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    Well... as it turned out my modem was not DOCSIS2 compatible. I am now up to 6 Mb/s for my laptop (wireless, 128 bit encry) where I was at 1.8. My desktop now is over 6 Mb/s. Comcast came in a changed the modem out.

    grazzt

    [​IMG]
     
    grazzt, Aug 30, 2007
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  10. Jason

    Jason Overclocker NBR Reviewer

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    I usually use speakeasy speedtest, but I'll give speedtest.net a try.

    Speedtest.net is a joke. :p For those of you that don't know, I'm in Taiwan. I ran it to a San Fransisco server and got 172kbps download and 52upload. I just ran speakeasy.net's speed test and got 3072 download and 792 upload. I have a 10Mb/s fiber optic connection. Locally I usually get between 9 and 12Mbps. I guess speedtest.net only works well from the US...
     
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  12. grazzt

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    I started out using this for the test. This was my benchmark to gauge how the modem worked before and and after it was swapped out. Speakeasy was used by the comcast tech, but I did not have data from that service.
     
    grazzt, Aug 30, 2007
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