What's Your Internet Speed?

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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?
 
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Mine is nearly identical to yours, but since I am not in the habit of pinging myself, I have no idea of that one. :p
 
Mine is supposedly 100/3 (download/upload). Most tests show download in the high 80s to low 90s and upload just at 3 (measured in mbps). My cable company offers gigabit speed, but they want a gosh awful price for it - $175/month just for the internet v. 55 for the 100/3.
 
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I have Frontier FIOS. I just upgraded from 10 down and 2 up to 50/50. My actual speeds using Ookla Speedtest, are 48 down and 60 up, with a 30 ms ping. Frankly, I haven't seen any observable differences in speeds since the upgrade.
 
Geeesh... I remember the days when I was "upgrading" modems from 14.4kbps to 28.8kbps and thought that was smokin' hot! And when the 56kbps came out... crazy fast. Fast forward to today... if I'm not pushing 100Mbps I'm looking for the trouble shooting diagnostics button. :D

 
Kbps = Kilobits per second
Mbps = Megabits per second

Kilo = Thousand
Mega = Million

My old 14.4Kbps was 14,400 bits per second.

My current speed of 89.51Mbps is 89,510,000 bits per second.

Goggle 'broadband speed test" to find a site to check your speed.
 
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Some of you guys have amazing connection speeds!
Especially upload speeds.
Are you speedy guys having any problems with the site?
 
THE PILGRIM said:
Some of you guys have amazing connection speeds!
Especially upload speeds.
Are you speedy guys having any problems with the site?
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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.
 
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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.
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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.

 
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.
 
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THE PILGRIM said:
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?
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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
 
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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.
 
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.
 
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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.
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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.
 
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