[psmith2.0]

Close to what I had last time we did this, just a skootch slower on the download, and a tad faster on the upload. What it is - and means - I'm happy. Everything's good and fast like it should be.

[MCQ]

Originally Posted by Moogs Dude that's crazy... why is your Comcastic basically 5x faster than mine and everyone else's? Futt TEH WUckorz Photoshopz mayhem!!

Yeah, I ran it again to double check. It's just the connection to the Ft. Lauderdale server it seems, the Miami server gets a more reasonable result.



I think they're still Craptastic though.

[Moogs]

Hey you're still basically 2x as fast as what I've got.

[RichieB]

[zsummers]

Meh.

[torifile]

Totally craptastic here.



No change, really, since the last thread. You'd think living in the part of the country with the highest per capita Ph.D.s would get us some FiOS love, but NOOOOOO.

[colivigan]

Originally Posted by torifile No change, really, since the last thread. You'd think living in the part of the country with the highest per capita Ph.D.s would get us some FiOS love, but NOOOOOO.

Ph.D.s don't need bandwidth. FiOS targets the communities with the highest per capita high quality pr0n addicts.

And it's a total coincidence that I happen to live in one. Really.

[Moogs]

"OMG teh quictimez lowdz so much fasters... look how fast the boobies jiggling now!"

[torifile]

Originally Posted by UncleJohn Ph.D.s don't need bandwidth. FiOS targets the communities with the highest per capita high quality pr0n addicts. And it's a total coincidence that I happen to live in one. Really.

Have you seen the women at Dook? We need porn. What else are we supposed to fantasize about? It's certainly not those non-existent cute girls at the local coffeshop, that's for sure.

[thegelding]

wireless comcast to my laptop



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[dmegatool]

My wireless at home.

[autodata]

[Stone Of Love]

[rollercoaster375]

My super-wimpy town-wide wireless. We're paying for 1M/256k...

Only other thing offered is DSL, but we're the last house with access to the service, so it cuts out all the time [so we dumped it].

On the plus side, my ToS are nonexistent... I can run servers, torrent... Pretty much whatever I want.

[turtle]

[scratt]

Still paying for 2K down and supposedly 1K up!
TRUE are the worst ISP in the world.. but the 'best' (via a monopoly) in Thailand.

[joveblue]

My ISP has just announced that they will double the speed of our cable connection from 10Mbps to 20Mbps, but only if we move to their new plans. So basically we lose half of our download limit and they start metering our uploads... I'm thinking it could be worth it though coz I don't think we're using that much of our downloads these days... Oh and there's no way in hell we're moving to "Fusion" - the plan where they've introduced 'excess' charges of $150 per gigabyte. They're kind enough to shape you once you've gone 2GB over though... Arseholes. They used to be the "good guys".

[Koodari]

That's me pimping my bandwidth at home on a Macbook.

The speeds even on the same servers swing around a good bit. Ergo, I'm just testing the servers' free capacity and not my connection. Speedtest ought to let you use a bunch of servers at the same time.

[CitizenTony]

[kieran]

Back at school:

[AWR]

Here you go, Moogs:

DN: 37,045
UP: 892

Geneva location, Geneva server. Workplace connection.

[bassplayinMacFiend]

Originally Posted by Moogs Hey you're still basically 2x as fast as what I've got.

My friends in Georgia with Comcast get basically triple the upload speed that I do (I get 384Kbps, give or take). I know this because they can easily host 18 player COD4 matches on their 360 and I top out at running an 8 person server before people start getting dropped due to lag.

[Wyatt]

From my desk in my office:

[ironlung]

Not too bad for Insight. Seems that they did upgrade. Once I get to lab, I'll post my results from there as well.

EDIT: At UIUC

[Eugene]

Actually an interesting topic... to compare our current speeds with what we had ~year ago with the same ISP. Of course people with work/school connections don't really count.

12/10/2006:


12/18/2007:

[Wyatt]

Originally Posted by Eugene Actually an interesting topic... to compare our current speeds with what we had ~year ago with the same ISP. Of course people with work/school connections don't really count.

No, I guess not.

My work connection is on the same network as it was a year ago, but I'm in a new office (thanks to a new job ~5 months ago).

I'll re-test and post from my home (Insight) connection later. I'm guessing my work connection is just a bit faster. I tested once from home a little while ago (maybe 2 weeks) and got something around 7 Mb (a little less than the 10 Mb I'm paying for).

[Capella]

What a difference not being on Wi-Fi makes. That drastically reduces my speed. Doing it from my desktop computer which is directly wired to the wall shows just how fast I get. Of course, the 1.5G/week download cap and 512M/week upload cap crimp that...buuut, oh well- it's fantastic for gaming.

[Koodari]

Originally Posted by Capella What a difference not being on Wi-Fi makes. That drastically reduces my speed. Doing it from my desktop computer which is directly wired to the wall shows just how fast I get. Of course, the 1.5G/week download cap and 512M/week upload cap crimp that...buuut, oh well- it's fantastic for gaming.

We had a 14G/month upload cap but I think it hasn't been re-enabled after network changes about a year ago. With the changes we also lost fixed IPs, but some pocket change per month will buy one now.

You appear server capacity or network capped too.

[Capella]

They do it so we don't use all the bandwidth torrenting/downloading/etc. Which, without the cap, everyone I know would do. And I imagine 12,000 on-campus students all max downloading would put a lot of stress on them/be very expensive.

[Trumpetman]

Nick