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[ARCHIVED THREAD] - How fast is your internet connection and is it wired or wireless?

Posted: 9/18/2005 8:56:25 AM EDT

I spent a few hours running a cat5 cable from my router to my computer. i used to be wireless. previously I ran spped test with the wireless setup and most were in the 2-3 meg range. Nice and fast. after I wired it up I ran test again. I got 3.5 -4.9 meg readings. Quite a bit of difference. I could tell that the latency was less with the wired.

this is was with Comcast. I thought they peaked out at 3meg.

What are you getting?

Posted: 9/18/2005 8:58:05 AM EDT

[#1]

tag

Posted: 9/18/2005 9:01:57 AM EDT

[#2]

Keep in mind that I work for my ISP, and am one of their Network engineers, so none of our "customers" have connections like this.

Anyways, my main internet connection is wireless. I am using two motorolla 5.8 Ghz Wireless Backhaul antennas between the office and my house (about 2 miles). From the antenna it is a wired connection, where it comes into my house, and plugs into my wrap board and a power over enternet box.

From the wrap board is goes right into my router, a SonicWALL TZ-170 SP Wireless firewall/router, and from that is is a wired connection to all of the computers and xbox.

This is a speed test I ran and posted a while back -

Posted: 9/18/2005 9:14:40 AM EDT

[#3]

tag

Posted: 9/18/2005 9:20:57 AM EDT

[#4]

I have a wireless ISP. It's the only broadband option where I live. The bandwidth varies dramatically. I'm actually paying for 1m/256k. At the moment, my bandwidth measures as follows:

Your download speed : 478813 bps, or 467 kbps.
A 58.4 KB/sec transfer rate.
Your upload speed : 414336 bps, or 404 kbps.

I'm 6 miles from the tower.

Posted: 9/18/2005 9:21:57 AM EDT

[#5]

Ok, so I am a dummy, how do I know what my speed is? I am on Comcast.

Posted: 9/18/2005 9:23:22 AM EDT

[#6]

here ya gowww.dslreports.com/stest

Posted: 9/18/2005 9:52:00 AM EDT

[#7]

Thanks.
my results were:

2005-09-18 13:41:46 EST: 2839 / 350
Your download speed : 2907559 bps, or 2839 kbps.
A 354.9 KB/sec transfer rate.
Your upload speed : 359101 bps, or 350 kbps.

Are these shitty speeds?
They seem very low compared to adair_usmc

Posted: 9/18/2005 9:54:38 AM EDT

[#8]

Quoted:
Thanks.
my results were:

2005-09-18 13:41:46 EST: 2839 / 350
Your download speed : 2907559 bps, or 2839 kbps.
A 354.9 KB/sec transfer rate.
Your upload speed : 359101 bps, or 350 kbps.

that sucks, right?

Not really. keep in mind that there are a lot of people still stuck on dial-up. Thats not too bad at all.

Posted: 9/18/2005 9:56:22 AM EDT

[#9]

Quoted:

They seem very low compared to adair_usmc

Mine is that way because it is an unlimited bandwidth connection, right into my office. Like I said, I work for the local ISP, so I can set up my own equipment and adjust RADIUS profiles at will

Posted: 9/18/2005 9:57:54 AM EDT

[#10]

15mb/sec

Verizon Fios Fiber Optic internet.

When a cable modem is just TOO DAMN SLOW!

Posted: 9/18/2005 9:58:46 AM EDT

[#11]

Try this test

Posted: 9/18/2005 10:07:10 AM EDT

[#12]

Quoted:
Try this test

That one game me about 1Mbit, DSLReports gives me over 5Mbits.

Posted: 9/18/2005 10:20:39 AM EDT

[#13]

Getting 1.5 Mbps of my Garanteed 3.0 Mbps

I'm switching to DSL soon. For the same price I get a garantee of 7 Mbps down and 1.5 Mbps up.

Posted: 9/18/2005 10:25:14 AM EDT

[#14]

2005-09-18 14:24:07 EST: 5785 / 356
Your download speed : 5923994 bps, or 5785 kbps.
A 723.1 KB/sec transfer rate.
Your upload speed : 365388 bps, or 356 kbps.

Posted: 9/18/2005 10:30:18 AM EDT

[#15]

Quoted:
Try this test

I just ran that 3 times. I went from 1.5M to 1.3M to 2.3M! I guess I will take the last one!

2.3 megabits per second

Communications 2.3 megabits per second
Storage 279.6 kilobytes per second
1MB file download 3.7 seconds
Subjective rating Great

Posted: 9/18/2005 10:35:09 AM EDT

[#16]

2005-09-18 14:34:43 EST: 1710 / 241
Your download speed : 1751751 bps, or 1710 kbps.
A 213.8 KB/sec transfer rate.
Your upload speed : 247585 bps, or 241 kbps.

Communications 1.6 megabits per second
Storage 199.6 kilobytes per second
1MB file download 5.1 seconds
Subjective rating Great

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