10 Mbit/s broadband connection, suckers

[Inkoddi]

Bye 28,8 k dial-up connection, hello 10 Mbit/s!!

Now I can download everything

What kind of connections do YOU have?

[Evil]

Broadband, 100 Mbps.

Edit: Heh, my bad, my eithernet is right next to my modem crap. ^_^

[TheYak]

Broadband - DSL - 512Kbs.  Measured at Max download=900kbps and max u/l @ 384kbps.

[Er Santa, I'm sure you access to the best technology and everything but 100Mbps?  You sure you're not talking about your Ethernet?]

[Pumaman]

Yay, a willy waving contest.

As I don't feel that I need to boast about my broadband to make up for deficiencies elsewhere, I'll just say that I've got a 2400 bps modem.

[Squinky]

I just got hooked with up adsl or something like that. It's supposedly 650 mg download and like 250 upload, but when I tested it was only at 538/230...Good times though...

[TerranRich]

Hey, we're all glad you guys live in areas that can support high speed internet, you jocks. We little-willied ones shall remain in the land of 56KBps unwillingly. Thanks for getting me pissed off at something I can't change.  

[shbaz]

My University has an awesome super-fast network that connects me at the fastest speed that the internet and my hardware will allow me, which is never over 1,000kbs. They have a 10gbs backbone though.

At my Father's I get around 500kbs max.

At my Mom's (in a town of 800 people haha) the DSL line gets 100kbs max. We used to only have dial-up there, but DSL had been available since 2000.  Demand that your ISP's get with the times!

[Timosity]

I have cable, I think it's a 10 Mbit line but that information is hard to find on the website, even in the FAQ's under speed. It just says it uses the maximum speed possible.

I get a 3GB a month limit anyway, but I just got an email today saying happy christmas and get 6GB for the rest of Dec, then 6GB in Jan, and 6GB in Feb from my ISP (which is for everyone not just me)

18 months ago there was no limit and for 2 years I got used to downlaoding movies and large files, probably atleast 10GB per month, plus I used to get up to 1000kb/s eg. d/l a 60 Megabyte game in 1 minute

now I get generally around 200kb/s sometimes more sometimes less depending on sites, time of day. It also makes a difference how close your house is to the nearest exchange.

So it now costs more to get slower speed, monthly limit of downloads (if you exceed you get capped to the speed of a 28.8 modem until the next month)

It became popular so they fuck it up for everyone to cash in.

I never understand the speed stuff cause it never seems to make sense,

eg. 1632 Kbps or 200 Kbytes per second.

they are both the same speed but whats the difference between Kbps and Kbytes per second (I always though that Kbps was Kbytes per second, but obviously not and is just there to confuse people into thinking they have faster connections [or slower]. I guess the difference is bits or bytes

the above speed was my second test, but the first test I recieved these results



that was pretty flukey.

I got the result from this page

http://www.dungogtlc.org/speedtest.shtml

edit: I'm not sure where this site is hosted but probably in Australia, I remember there was a thread somewhere on this forum that had links to other speed tests, I'm sure someone can post a few different locations.

[Raven_Gray]

I took that test too and embarressed by the results. I got dailup and to top it off, I live way out in the vast hillsides of Hickville. Lets just say it came out somewhere around 28.8 Kbps on the chart. *goes to hide in a hole*

[TheYak]

I never understand the speed stuff cause it never seems to make sense,

eg. 1632 Kbps or 200 Kbytes per second.

they're not quite the same speed though 1632 kbps is probably about what I'd expect on a 200kbyte connection.  The KBPS stands for kilo-bits per second.  Divide that by 10 and you've got your Bytes Per second.  Why 10?  Because 8 bits = 1 byte, +1 parity bit, +1 stop bit.  That's why your max BPS rating when using a 28.8 modem was a simple conversion to 2.88 k/second.  (Aside from compression, of course)  It gets more confusing when you don't know if your ISP has rated your connection in marking Kilos or scientific Kilos.  (1000 vs. 1024).  All in all, a pain in the ass.

[jetxl]

I love my school. 1MEGABITE per second. Yes I said 1MEGA BITE. Come again? 1MEGABITE!!! it takes 15 minutes for one movie to download.
(By the way, the network connection, it's 1MEGABITE per second.)
By the time you are finished reading this, I have downloaden an episode.
And it's 1MB/s <- MEGA byte<- not bit<- per second<- not per hour<- not per light year<- PER FRIGGING SECOND!
Oh and I finished downloading another episode.

{PS. I's all about your server speed. 10Mb/s doesn't mean you can upload 10Mb/s if the server you're connected to is only giving you 40kb/s.
And I finished downloading another episode. yay for me}

1 M-E-G-A B-I-T-E per S-E-C-O-N-D! WOESH

[veryweirdguy]

I have two cans connected by a piece of string (the can at my end has a USB connector).

[Adamski]

I have dial-up at my uni flat. It sucks.

[TheDude]

512kbs cable modem, hopefully i can afford 1mb sooooon.

I get 55Kib/s download and 15Kib/s upload.

[Ghormak]

they're not quite the same speed though 1632 kbps is probably about what I'd expect on a 200kbyte connection. The KBPS stands for kilo-bits per second. Divide that by 10 and you've got your Bytes Per second. Why 10? Because 8 bits = 1 byte, +1 parity bit, +1 stop bit. That's why your max BPS rating when using a 28.8 modem was a simple conversion to 2.88 k/second. (Aside from compression, of course) It gets more confusing when you don't know if your ISP has rated your connection in marking Kilos or scientific Kilos. (1000 vs. 1024). All in all, a pain in the ass.

Pain indeed. That's why I say "the highest download speed I've seen is 800k/s" if somebody asks me how fast a connection I'm on.

And now someone did.

I've downloaded at 800k/s. Which means it'd take me 4.5 seconds to download the latest version of AGS.

Of course, none of this is true now that I'm home for Christmas. Yay for 64k isdn.

[juncmodule]

Communications-- 160.7 kilobits per second
Storage-- 19.6 kilobytes per second
1MB file download-- 52.2 seconds
Subjective rating-- Mediocre

from: http://www.bandwidthplace.com

I just went to DSL from cable. Although there is a huge change, I'm not concerned. I don't download anything over 100MB anyway. The only reason most people need a connection much faster than mine is to pirate movies/videos. I can still listen to music, watch trailers, and download AGS in a minute or two. That's fine with me.

The only reason I switched was cost. DSL is half the price of Cable here. For the most part I can do just as much with it.

It's not the size that matters. It's how you use it.

later,
-junc

[remixor]

Home for winter, no speedy university connection.  At the moment that Speedtest page says: "106.1 Kbps or 13 Kbytes per second."

[TheYak]

I dig the speedy connections.  In the Marine Corps we had a T1-line.  That was fairly sweet.  However, even using slow-ass DSL at home, I've yet to find many sites that allow me to download at max speed.  With Kazaa, the highest I ever get is around 50k/s and that's extremely rare.  If I use a download-assistant program, throw in about 5 mirrors for a file (using Getright or something), I still never manage much over 130 k/s.  Myself, I'm content if a file transfer stays above 10/second.