Poll: Connect speed

swimtech · Mar 19, 2004, 07:23 PM

Haven't seen this subject tried lately...

What is your connect speed? I've never tried a poll before and am actually connected at the top speed for my home connection in weeks tonight - a blazing 24Kbps!

Dom · Mar 19, 2004, 07:35 PM

ADSL - 768/256

Judas · Mar 19, 2004, 07:39 PM

well.... zardon says a T1 line would seriously slow me down... and yep... look at the graphs after running a few bandwidth test.... he right..... HOWEVER lately... and i mean since i put the dedicated servers up... i've been experiencing some SERIOUSLY slow uploading.. they killed it... i'm now sitting at 128kb... it's seriously driving me nutz... so i'm now looking at another solution or 2.... i've been searching around the city for anyone that have dual wan routers... or if they can get them in at all.... some have said they'd look... but no responce yet... (i'm being hopefull).... i'm currently eyeing the available tech here.. fiber optics is getting cheaper.... but highly out of the question... but i can however get 50mb/s download rate... not sure on price yet (and that's not the connection.. that's the RATE... and that's both Download and UPLOAD)

Judas · Mar 19, 2004, 07:41 PM

BTW... i can get a dedicated t1 line brought in for $100 a month... but damn... it's just not worth it... when i can get faster speeds for cheaper (i might just go for the 20mb/s for $60 (canadian) a month)

swimtech · Mar 19, 2004, 08:09 PM

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Originally posted by Judas
well.... zardon says a T1 line would seriously slow me down... and yep... look at the graphs after running a few bandwidth test.... he right..... HOWEVER lately... and i mean since i put the dedicated servers up... i've been experiencing some SERIOUSLY slow uploading.. they killed it... i'm now sitting at 128kb... it's seriously driving me nutz... so i'm now looking at another solution or 2.... i've been searching around the city for anyone that have dual wan routers... or if they can get them in at all.... some have said they'd look... but no responce yet... (i'm being hopefull).... i'm currently eyeing the available tech here.. fiber optics is getting cheaper.... but highly out of the question... but i can however get 50mb/s download rate... not sure on price yet (and that's not the connection.. that's the RATE... and that's both Download and UPLOAD)

Your hell would be my heaven...

Dig this, my download speed (actual) is like 3kbps. Needless to say, my home machine waits for me download and burn stuff to CD (at 400-700kbps) from one of my machines at work.

However, the home service is free! A perk, until the modems die - they're not replacing them if they croak.

Judas · Mar 19, 2004, 08:16 PM

don't worry.... i went from hell to heaven in one stride..... i was living on 14.4 kb modem.... barely pushing 1kb/s downloads.... sometimes i'd get a good result of 3kb/s when the power was out and the UPS was active..... damn routing.... the idiot phone company setup an entire town on one phone line that went to another town at which point it to would join in and whatnot... multiple routings resulted in seriously terrible results... and yet.. we had to pay the 56kb connection... $34 per month.. with a maxium of 180 hours REGARDLESS of what we did... mean while a town away.. were browsing and download at 1mb/s and only paying $20 for unlimited for both acess and downloads...

Vampyromaniac · Mar 19, 2004, 10:28 PM

Wireless - 1100/1100

(added a couple options

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Judas · Mar 19, 2004, 10:56 PM

should add T2 or faster

BWX · Mar 19, 2004, 11:58 PM

Cable w. Motorola SB5100 Cable modem-
3000kb/s down- 256kb/s up

I used to get crazy download speeds (about 2MB/s down), but lately it's been around 360Kbs down and about 36Kbs up.

Now they have a cap on download to 3000kb/s now, but they used to just cap upload and let download go uncapped.. I guess the people closest to the nodes were hogging it all, so they just decided to cap everyone.

*kb/s= kilobits per second
*Kbs= kilobytes per second
*MB/s= Megabytes per second

Vampyromaniac · Mar 20, 2004, 12:37 AM

actually, KB = kilobyte

BWX · Mar 20, 2004, 03:26 AM

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Originally posted by Vampyromaniac
actually, KB = kilobyte

Yeah, I know- hence the *guide in the post

-- instead of rewriting it all.
Coulda/shoulda said Kb/s, Kbps, KB/s, KBps, Mb/s, Mbps, MBps, MB/s, Gb/s, Gbps, GB/s, GBps ..etc.....

Here's a cool converter- http://www.digitaldutch.com/unitconverter/index.htm

b = bit, 1 piece of data

B = byte, 8 bits

Kb = kilobit, 1024 bits

KB = kilobyte (sometimes expressed as just "K"), 1024 bytes

Mb = megabit, 1024 kilobits

MB = megabyte, 1024 kilobytes

A 50-KB image will take approximately this long to download on the following modems:

2.4 Kbps (2400 baud) = 170.64 seconds

9.6 Kbps (9600 baud) = 42.64 seconds

14.4 Kbps = 28.48 seconds

28.8 Kbps = 14.24 seconds

33.6 Kbps = 12.16 seconds

56 Kbps = 7.31 seconds

ISDN (128 Kbps) = 3.20 seconds

T1 (1.44 Mbps) = .2848 second

T3 (45 Mbps) = .0009104 second

PangingJr · Mar 20, 2004, 04:59 AM

Dial-up 28.8 Kbps

The_Neon_Cowboy · Mar 20, 2004, 06:24 AM

cable

swimtech · Mar 20, 2004, 11:23 PM

Mine's definitely a little "b".

You guys are hilarious!

I feel for and with you panging, and thanks for the encouragement Judas. I do get my high speed fix 5 days a week though, thank the Lord...

Noticed that folks outside the US seem to pay less for "high bandwidth". I'm on a cooperative's service that would have to spend major bucks to upgrade the lines, amps, etc. to provide a nice pipe to all us out here in the mountain country. That situation is no doubt similar throughout the rural US...

Nice chart BWX232! I had forgotten...

PangingJr · Mar 21, 2004, 03:59 AM

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Originally posted by swimtech

I feel for and with you panging,

lol dont be and thanks, i'm okay when all i need is just browsing and the 28.8 is from my notebook's card, the desktop gets a better connection, the service is free and i get all the files that i want in CDs weekly or sometimes within the next day if i really want it fast from friends who uses cable or a faster connections.

**MIG-31** · Mar 21, 2004, 04:02 AM

adsl 512k/256 upload.

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by panging

Dial-up 28.8 Kbps

would not of expected anybody in this modern day to have that speed.

PangingJr · Mar 21, 2004, 04:15 AM

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Originally posted by johnybravo
would not of expected anybody in this modern day to have that speed.

well as long as i don't have any prob with page loading when i see some of fast connection were having it.. so i think i'am okay then..

Judas · Mar 21, 2004, 12:00 PM

set page limit to 10 or 15.... disable sigs and avatars....... the these forums FLY!

***Zardon*** · Mar 21, 2004, 12:03 PM

Driverheaven

down and up 12,500k

me 1mbit/256

Judas · Mar 21, 2004, 12:10 PM

T3 baby... (me knows the feeling)

***Zardon*** · Mar 21, 2004, 12:14 PM

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Originally posted by Judas
T3 baby... (me knows the feeling)

you wish

**Asmoday** · Mar 21, 2004, 12:22 PM

10Mbit both ways....

***Zardon*** · Mar 21, 2004, 12:26 PM

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Originally posted by Cartman
10Mbit both ways....

ermm I think you mean 10mbit down and 1mbit up bud. (unless you changed plans since we last spoke !)

**Asmoday** · Mar 21, 2004, 12:29 PM

nope...ive always had 10Mbit both ways...BUT..when uploading outside of Sweden, my speed is not that great, bredbandsbolaget(my isp) is pretty weird when it comes to that...but domestic when im uploading im getting speeds between 1MB/s-1.3MB/s...anyway...im happy!!

Btw....ive got an offer from my ISP to get a 100Mbit connection starting in april...however it will be capped to 300Gb a month...and is quiet expensive about 90Euros/month compared to my current connection that i pay about 35Euros for..