What's Your Internet Speed?

[THE PILGRIM]

Some of you guys have amazing connection speeds!
Especially upload speeds.
Are you speedy guys having any problems with the site?

 

[Ogandydancer]

Depending on which server I used I got the following; Ping 15 and 25, D/L 12.97 and 12.91 with U/L 0.89 and 0.88. These using OOKLA

 

[ChattanoogaPhil]

Some of you guys have amazing connection speeds!
Especially upload speeds.
Are you speedy guys having any problems with the site?

Not me. I also have an HP desktop on the other side of my home operating on my home network. Due to weak signal it operates under 15Mbps. This site is just as quick at 10Mbps as 100Mbps.

Really, unless you're downloading large files I don't think faster speeds makes much of a discernible difference in typical web browsing. Though if you have multiple users on a home network online at the same time it can make quite a difference.

 

[doublesharp]

That would be the claimed speed by the service provider.
You need to run a speed check on your device and see Exactly what speed you are actually getting.

We've got solid cable in Louisville area. I'm in southern Indiana and have had cable broadband since Insight's beta test days back in 1999. Good to have choices. AT&T is pushing U-Verse hard and Google is wiring now to bring in some super speed.

Our local cable company was one of the best ever (who says that about a cable co) and it was a bittersweat day when they sold to Time Warner a few years back. Bitter because Insight was such a competent provider, Sweet because I made a pile on the Insight stock I owned. TWC hasn't been bad to live with but now they've sold merged with Spectrum and the results aren't in yet. I've got an appt for 2 pm tomorrow for the 300 Mbps install so I'll know more then.

 

[shouldazagged]

Can you say "tectonic drift"? I knew you could.

Oh, wait, you meant my computer's speed.

Never mind.

 

[kwselke]

I have AT&T U-verse Elite (Not the fastest or slowest) DSL. Ping on AT&T's server is 19 MS, download speed 7.66 Mbps, upload 1.45 Mbps. Very lethargic, compared to some here. I've seen very little in the way of performance problems on this forum with my 9 year old Core-2 Quad Dell running W-7. I have noticed threads which have many YouTube redirects on a given page (the old Drift and current Music threads in particular) will overload my video card's processing capability and be jittery until all the YouTube thumbnails are loaded. I suspect most people that experience problems with the forum loading are using machines with CPUs that are shared with their video system, or if their system has a separate video processor it is under-powered. Having a great video system makes a world of difference in a machine's perceived performance.

 

[woodsltc]

I suspect that a lot of the recently reported forum problems are internet speed related.
So how fast is your internet?
There are a number of speed checkers available,
I am using the Speed-test app on the iPad.
I just checked mine.
My download speed is 88.57 MBPS.
Upload 6.20 MBPS.
Ping is 9 MS.
What's your speed?

I doubt it.....if that were the problem it would show up on other sites also. I checked 56 sites (from my favorites list) and "this site" was the ONLY one with a problem.

BTW....it took me 4 tries just to post this!!!

Don

 

[DavidWJ]

Nothing better than living in the boondocks, except for the slow internet speeds. Mine is a landline at 1.2Mbps download.

With some of your reported speeds, no wonder so many huge pictures are uploaded. I just close those posts because they take too long to complete.

 

[H Richard]

I see all you guys with 80 and 100+ download speeds, and I wonder why? I just checked mine, from my 10 year old laptop through Comcast, and it was 17.07 download, 12.13 upload, ping 19. I have literally instantaneous in most functions, what do I need anything faster for? Now, I don't do any facebook or any of that other stuff, just browse a few auction sites, use the Forum, and pay a few bills.

 

[kwselke]

I see all you guys with 80 and 100+ download speeds, and I wonder why? I just checked mine, from my 10 year old laptop through Comcast, and it was 17.07 download, 12.13 upload, ping 19. I have literally instantaneous in most functions, what do I need anything faster for? Now, I don't do any facebook or any of that other stuff, just browse a few auction sites, use the Forum, and pay a few bills.

Right now I'm browsing this forum, streaming music to my A/V system, and have a home phone that uses Voice over the Internet Protocol that I could be talking on. If I had a family; Johnnie could also be gaming on the connection in his room, little Mary might also be watching a Netflix video in her room, while the wife is video conferencing with her office. With my slow 7.5 download speed my current needs are well served, but I can also see how one could overload a 100 Mbps Internet connection.

 

[JohnRippert]

I see all you guys with 80 and 100+ download speeds, and I wonder why? I just checked mine, from my 10 year old laptop through Comcast, and it was 17.07 download, 12.13 upload, ping 19. I have literally instantaneous in most functions, what do I need anything faster for? Now, I don't do any facebook or any of that other stuff, just browse a few auction sites, use the Forum, and pay a few bills.

My SlingTV and Netflix streaming services run so much smoother now that we are on a 50MB connection.

 

[doublesharp]

TWC in Louisville is currently offering 300Mbps stand alone service for $70 per month plus $10 for modem/router with wifi. You can own your own modem if you choose. I'm going to rent theirs for a while.

 

[DWFAN]

Ping 21, download 175.29, upload 12.29.
Lickity split.

DW

 

[Scrapper]

Ours is kinda like this.

 

[Gulfecho]

Try this:

 

[wilkoi]

177 Down

12 Up

 

[ChattanoogaPhil]

I see all you guys with 80 and 100+ download speeds, and I wonder why? I just checked mine, from my 10 year old laptop through Comcast, and it was 17.07 download, 12.13 upload, ping 19. I have literally instantaneous in most functions, what do I need anything faster for? Now, I don't do any facebook or any of that other stuff, just browse a few auction sites, use the Forum, and pay a few bills.

In my case, Comcast just keeps upping the speed. It went from 10 to 20 to 30 to 50 to 100. EPB offers fiber optic in our area so I guess Comcast is trying to keep up to speed with the competition.

To your point general point, I agree. I haven't noticed any difference for my use since 10-20. But if ya got a couple 4k TVs streaming 4k content from Netflix along with a couple kids gaming online... no doubt there's need for speed.

 

[greeman]

Here's mine

From Comcast

edited 11/3 - New modem

 

[CoMF]

178 Mbps peak downstream, about 12 Mbps peak upstream, 34 ms ping.

Works great for my gaming when my wife and stepson are doing things like streaming HD video and/or downloading games on Steam.

Used to have a 3 Mbps DSL connection in the sticks... That resulted in a lot of finger pointing and demands to turn off downloads when we came home from work.

Now that we have cable internet with those speeds, it's easy to keep the peace.

 

[sophie]

Mine is a little over 50 download and about 5.5 upload and ping usually around 18-20 and I have no problem with this forum site. Frankly I can't tell the difference from when mine was 10 or 15 download and 3 or 4 upload.