How fast is your internet? Share your results!

[CoyoteAssassin]

Can someone explain speedtest.net?
I always test and it's telling me I get 3mb/s when in fact when I download something from the internet, it's always at 500kb/sec?

Your download speed depends upon three things.

Your connection to the internet
File location
Server connection (on the other side).

You can have a true T3 piped into your house but if you download from someone with 56k, 56k is all you are getting.

I remember when I was in highschool on dial-up, I would always download from someone with at least a T1 or ISDN. You never want to download from someone with the same speed as your chances are good that it will be slower than your max.

 

[xboxps3wow]

Would be faster, but local switch is only 100mbps

 

[CoyoteAssassin]

Would be faster, but local switch is only 100mbps

If my speeds were that fast, I'd get a new switch. D-Link has a very nice 8-port Wireless N 10/100/1000 router.

 

[Deleted Member 112605]

http://www.speedtest.net


Parent's basement. What can I say. nbd

 

[Pilot-Talk]

100/100mb fiber. Unlimited bandwith. Only $13/month. Patch station in my central closet (dunno why I have it, or what it does, but its there and I connect my interwebz cable from it to my computerz and *vroooom*!) God bless Sweden!

 

[Virus1]

Check this out....

http://www.speedtest.net/wave/7c50037993c9208f


Make sure you sort it by speed...just amazing.

 

[Clare Jane]

Any one knows any system tweak to speed up connection?

 

[backontrack]

^_^

My school internet is hella fast but my housing internet is like 14mbps, and my parents internet is like 1mbps. Typing this from my parents place -_-

imagine how fast you can download torrents,movies,applications...wow

 

[RMX]

Too bad I'm not in Latvia anymore. We've got the 2nd fastest Internet in the world there, according to speedtest.net - almost 1 Gbps both ways - and yes, it's for normal users, not only the big players, and costs just about $40-$45/month.

 

[lazlow]

200mbit/s fiber optic connection / $40 a month

 

[RMX]

200mbit/s fiber optic connection / $20 a month

Upgrade to the 500 Mbps Lattelecom offer, mate. It's almost the same price

 

[shaggy93]

... Low speed

 

[Addicted]

Upgrade to the 500 Mbps Lattelecom offer, mate. It's almost the same price

hey this is super fast man !.

i also need this type of internet...

can you describe it??

i got only 1.5mb/s

 

[backontrack]

100/100mb fiber. Unlimited bandwith. Only $13/month. Patch station in my central closet (dunno why I have it, or what it does, but its there and I connect my interwebz cable from it to my computerz and *vroooom*!) God bless Sweden!

wow and im paying 25$ lol

 

[jeeva]

this is my speed
download speed =1.09Kbps and
upload speed =0.87kbps
and i check my speed from

 

[backontrack]

Upgrade to the 500 Mbps Lattelecom offer, mate. It's almost the same price

thats crazy fast! Dowload me some torrents and send them through skype? lol!

 

[backontrack]

hey this is super fast man !.

i also need this type of internet...

can you describe it??

i got only 1.5mb/s

i get less than that...

 

[jamunkala]

30 kB/sec on good days

 

[jamunkala]

this is my speed
download speed =1.09Kbps and
upload speed =0.87kbps
and i check my speed from

why you call that speed ?

 

[HoNeYBiRD]

thats crazy fast! Dowload me some torrents and send them through skype? lol!

because skype can override the download speed allowed by your ISP and it'd be faster than if you would download the file for yourself from the tracker?