How fast is your internet? Test it and share.

[Locut0s]

In the thread about dropping your cable TV I mentioned that we have partially done just this. Some time back I realized that we valued the internet a LOT more than the 70+ some odd channels we were getting at that time. We used to watch more TV but over the years the internet has more than replaced that and it seems like most of what's on is now just crap, with a few notable exceptions here and there. At the time we were paying $150+ a month, well my father was anyway. I happened to notice that the cable company was offering a nice deal on a faster internet package so I suggested we cut out most of the TV channels and switch to the faster internet package. That's just what we did and we now have pretty fast internet and only basic TV. My mother has a few Chinese channels she special orders but even with these we ended up saving a few $ over the previous situation.

So, how fast is your connection? Here's what I'm getting



You can test yours at

http://www.speedtest.net/

If you do be sure to share the resulting image here. There is a link after the test to share an image of the result. Just paste the link they give you here.

[bluedigger]

1. Not good...

[hlthe2b]

2. typical comcast I'd imagine

[NRaleighLiberal]

3. mine

[onehandle]

4. A little slower than usual.

[Locut0s]

7. Home or work connection? If home nice!!...

If that's your home connection that's very nice. I usually associate that kind of speed with Japan or South Korea where they have cheap fast connections. Too bad North America hasn't caught up yet.

[onehandle]

10. Home.

Verizon FiOS is very fast. My wife works from home and needs top speed for teleconferencing etc.

Verizon just announced that you can get up to 500 Mbps service.

[Arcanetrance]

40. Fiber optic just like I have mines running slow as well oddly

[cantbeserious]

5. Pretty Good

[MuseRider]

6. Typical rural Kansas speed

This is pretty much average for us.

[Systematic Chaos]

8. Not bad....

[JesterCS]

24. WANT! n/t

[GoCubsGo]

9. "Fast" would not be a word I'd use to describe it.

A "fucking pathetic rip-off" is more like it:



I don't know if this is the result more of a lousy ISP provider, or because the cheap-shit modem they provide is wearing out. (

[Xyzse]

11. Currently have two streaming programs, so I don't know how much it hit my band.

[bigwillq]

12. Mine

http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/2858476410



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[csziggy]

13. 9.67Mbps down, 0.83Mbps up

http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/2858479544

MUCH better than I expected since our internet has been intermittent since Saturday and has been completely unusable at times in the last several days. I suspect their fiber optic cables are leaking with all the rain we've been getting.

[rocktivity]

14. Let's see if I did it right

I must be on one of their B-list tiers...


rocktivity

[CaliforniaPeggy]

15. Here you go:

http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/2858492364


Download:
24.52Mb/s


Upload:
5.31Mb/s

[AsahinaKimi]

17. I don't know if this is any good or not.

[amerikat]

18. Mine varies a lot. I check speed often

Mine varies mostly by time of day. I pay for 15Mbps. Sometimes goes as high
as 30 Mbps. Mostly below 10.

http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/2858498392

right now less than 8.

Right after work is usually less than 5Mbps.

[OriginalGeek]

19. I pay for 40Mb down

so I guess I can't complain



I think there's 80 or 90 down available here now but i haven't looked into it

[Tribalceltic]

20. I pay for 15

so I'm happy

[Populist_Prole]

21. About average for me

[In_The_Wind]

22. Okay

[In_The_Wind]

31. My service is different this morning ...

[JesterCS]

23. Near Cincy/Dayton Ohio

Then again I'm playing an online game too.

[HarveyDarkey]

25. Not so good

[olddots]

26. our system is so bad that i got an error message

when I went to the link. The message is over my head sales scammerisms so I chickened out of the scan.

[Doc_Technical]

27. ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ

Download speed 1.29Mbps

Upload speed .32Mbps

Out in the sticks with old landlines.

[Wounded Bear]

28. So so....

On an air card. I live out in the sticks a bit.

[Paulie]

29. Average here. Paying for 22/5 business class service

[TM99]

30. I pay a bit, but it is worth it

as I work from home in several different capacities.

This is a typical speedtest result with activity occuring:

[url=http://www.speedtest.net][img][/img][/url]

This is my usual pingtest result:

[url=http://www.pingtest.net][img][/img][/url]

Yeah, I am a geek and love these speeds.

[Locut0s]

34. Drool :D Sweet!!...

I'm a total geek as well, omg want! 22ms ping is kind of slow though. But you said you had other things going on in the background.

[TM99]

36. It is sweet, isn't it?

At the server, I get much better ping times, and when I did that test, I had a few machines doing various things on the network like serving media to the living room media center and my girlfriend's studio. Wireless has its advantages but if I didn't rent this house I would lay my own cabling for better & more stable speeds.

It is worth every penny!

[RebelOne]

32. Not too good. I copied it but the image did show up when I pasted the link.

http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/2859496519

[bif]

33. Real slow

1.2 M

[hunter]

35. Speedtest.net says: "Unfortunately you still need Flash v10+ "

Sorry Speedtest.net, no way, I'm not installing Flash...

There are a couple of HTML-5 speed test sites, here's one:

http://speedof.me

I use DSL from a local provider. Originally it was dedicated line to the ISP, just a twisted pair of copper wires, old school, before AT&T upgraded their equipment to sell their own internet service. Now the line is DSL, grandfathered in to the ISP,"partnered" with AT&T because they had to do that to survive. We're near the end of the phone line so our speed is modest but still much better than than dial-up. That's all we had when we first moved here. I've been on the internet since 1979, so I've seen many changes. When I started I'd connect from home via a 300 baud modem.

We once had a neighbor who leased a Pac-Bell T1 line and set up a neighborhood wireless service, which was very cool and not terribly expensive. The service would sometimes slow when lots of people were using it, but only rarely would it sink to dial-up speeds. But our neighbor was military and he got sent to Iraq when the U.S. invaded. While he was there AT&T upgraded our neighborhood's equipment and started offering their own DSL service. His business collapsed.

The giant U.S. telecommunication companies, AT&T, Comcast, etc., are mostly loathsome. I hate it when I have to do business with them. I don't do any personal business with them.

I'd like to see a national wireless internet service similar to the interstate highway system, with access points blanketing every public highway, rural road, and city street. It wouldn't have to be fast, maybe no faster than required for voice, but it would be free to everyone. If the big telecoms wanted to stay in business they'd have to offer something better.

Some would argue privacy concerns with a nationalized free internet service, but it's pretty clear the line between giant corporations and the U.S.A. government are blurred these days. The giant corporations and the U.S.A. government are almost a single entity, a revolving door between the regulators and the regulated, a royal class of very wealthy people, while the rest of us are serfs.

If the NSA wants to read your emails they ask the giant corporation, and the corporation complies. If the giant corporation wants to read your emails, the NSA complies. The U.S.A. "Military Industrial Complex," both government and giant corporation, is a single beast.

[Locut0s]

37. I wish North America would emulate Japan and South Korea...

100mb connections there are almost the norm and cheap compared to here

Agreed on all the stuff about the US government and business. People don't realize this stuff has been going on a lot longer than the resent NSA / Snowden leak too.

[Tyrs WolfDaemon]

38. This is mine

[Arcanetrance]

39. This is mine