Thanks to gsoc for knowing about this link. Just run the test and find out how fast your internet connection is.
http://www.speakeasy.net/speedtest/ (http://www.speakeasy.net/speedtest/)
By the way, I was 210kbs download and 205kbs upload.
Mine tested at
3784Kbps Download and 493Kbps Upload is that good?
mine was 4046 download and 500 even upload.
nlareau, what is considered to be poor good and excellent?
I'm at 1502 kbps, and 366kbps, which is what I'm payin for.
Geez, you guys are cooking with gas! Anything with a 4Mb/sec download speed is flying. You must have good cable modems.
Cable is supposed to be 4MB/sec or so, but it is like a "party line". The more folks using it in your neighborhood the slower it will get (or more correctly the less of that 4MB there is to share).
I'm on a low-end DSL "lite" service. 200k is sooo much faster than dialup.
Finally, it is the download speed that makes the difference. Your upload speed can be pretty slow because the short messages you type don't take much time anyway.
I notice if you try it at different areas, you get different speed results..
Could that be because of the distance? I tried Ga which is closer and got a faster speed.
and Wa state which is furthest from me and got a slower speed.
Ga = 1490 KBPS download
348 Upload
Wa= 1487 KBPS download
319 KBPS upload
I take it distance has something to do with it?
Yeah, I can imagine that distance would make the test run a little slower.
OK, just thought Id test both ends of the spectrum ;D
Quote from: nlareau on December 28, 2005, 08:02:27 PM
Finally, it is the download speed that makes the difference. Your upload speed can be pretty slow because the short messages you type don't take much time anyway.
Hey was that a poke at me for typing short messages ::)
To me the upload speed is the most important because most of the day I am adding files to one site or another around here and if it were not a fast connection I would be here twice as long and I just don't think that is possible ~shade
As a webmaster, you are not the average profile of an internet user. Most folks are like me who type in "http://www.ultimatebass.com", which is a real short string to send even at 56kbps, and then get a big download from the site. That's why most links are setup (optimized) to download better than upload.
I know we have looked at some of the graphics on the site and how large they are because I think that most of our users are using dial up and I have been looking for a template that is "lite" so that it wouln't take so much for the folks to download it each time they visit.
I think I have found one but it will probably be a while before I am able to put it into action due to my committments at the moment.
It sure would be good if we could stream line the site so that it was a bit faster for those that are using dial up ~c~
The other part of the upload thing is most uploads are compressed to the max, and that speeds up alot, as a means of easing memories in individual purter, and stuff like that many of the websites are not compressed when they download.
My problem is I'm payin for up to 3mbps, and I'm only gettin half of that, so I think it is time to call my provider and give them heck. ~xyz
very consistent 6mb down / 400 kb up.. and its still not fast enough!! :)
yep you pay big $ for fast upload (because your considered a business).. A T1 or business class Synchronous DSL (SDSL) will set you back $500-$1500 a month depending on location, speed and options...
Holy Cow :o
I will stick with my cable for the time being! I think Mike would move me out for that price LOL
Download 36 kbps
Upload 104 kbps
this is on a dial-up.
I got 2948 down and 492 up
Triton1a are you on a cable line?
yep..sure am...why?? is that slow for cable???
Just checking because your speeds were very close to mine and was curious if you were on a phone line with DSL or cable ;)
oh..ok...just checked my wireless DSL line here at work and its 852 and 174.....
Wow now that seems very slow to me :o , I wonder if the wireless has something to do with that :-\
Just tested mine here at work and it was 1795 KBPS upload and 243 KBPS download.
Here at work 595down, up 318
I cant remember what package they have here, but I know at home, I have the "lite" version...
tater
You guys are all kinda slow...... ~tumble
Mine is 5628K Up and 7209K Down!!! :shocking:
Here at work...
Download= 1325kbps
Upload= 1384kbps
scwildbill, what are you running for a modem, you are definatly moving :o
GSOC, how can you go faster than 56k on a dialup? What's with these speeds for folks with dialup???
Mine is terrable, got 21kbps down & 147 up with a 56k dial up
Fogy, something is really wrong on your modem, you should at least have a higher down load number than your upload number :-\
Now I got 21kbps down & 64 up
Your smoking, your modem that is. Them boys need to get you all out in the woods updated and quick :-*
yep, the country is good for clean air, nice neighbors, and being left alone, but they still use cans & strings for phones out this way.
CAN YA HEAR ME NOWWWWW?? lo
My numbers seem high, but I still feel it runs awful slow at times :(
3961 down and 501 up. Running a cable modem.
Those of you on modems can try this connection site instead http://www.bandwidthplace.com/speedtest/ (actually anyone can try it..) it only gives you the download speeds but seems to give a more accurate result for those on slower links (56k and below) .. Make sure you choose dialup as your connection type or the test will run a lot longer :)
You cannot get above 56k on an analog modem BUT you can have an apparent speed increase due to some of the compression algorithms and ip acceleration techniques that several of the bigger dialup ISP have implemented.. Not sure if they really work (they technically should) or a bunch of marketing hype..
FYI for those on 56k v.90 modems and not getting speeds in that range..
(Geekin out a little hang on...) ;)
Getting a connection rate of 56k is dependant upon many things, but most importantly is line quality... A line with static, popping or humming will most definitely not get 56k and probably not even 33k.. Analog modems will auto negotiate their speed down to a level that yields the most reliable link (usually down to 28k but sometimes as low as 14k) and almost never renegotiate back up.. Of course you cant do anything about the Telco's end but you can make sure your premise wiring is not causing the problem.. Most houses have a phone "loop" wired throughout and over time rodents, corrosion, loose connections can affect the quality of the analog transmission. To fix this run a dedicated phone line from your telco box to your modem (LEGAL DISCLAIMER: Please seek help from a qualifed professional while doing any low voltage wiring modifications to your house).. This will assure that you have a good connection to the telco line and eliminate the premise wiring as a possible problem..
Other things to check
Latest software drivers for the modem
An actual 56k modem (don't laugh I have sat for hours trying to up the speed on someone's modem only to crack the case and find out it wasn't a 56k modem ;D )
A quality modem.. Yep most of the time you get what you pay for...
Your ISP could be your problem.. Testdrive another ISP to check
If you have tried all the above and still getting 28k, well unfortunately you are at the mercy of you Telco because there are several more dependencies that can break the 56k connection but the rest is on their end... You could call and complain but I guarantee your time would be better spent on the lake!!!
Gosc, when I was on dial up a long time ago, I got one of the first 56k hopped up modems with the software to make a blazer at the time.
I was livin in Chicago at the time and could't get it over 33k, after talkin to a tech there they said that most of their switches couldn't handle that kind of speed yet.
It ended up being almost 3 years before I was able to get to that 56k speed.
I bet there are still areas where this is the case, so dialup speeds can be effected by this.
Tried to run the test at home on my dial-up...15 minutes later, it still hadn't given me the speeds!
Talk about slow! I connected last night at 24000
:roll2: :roll2: BA I am sorry but that was the funniest thing I have seen on this board all day :roll2: :roll2:
Mine at home was 4048 kb download and 353 upload.
Not laughing guys cause I just switched from a modem to DSL, but a but 24k is only a little faster than smoke signals. :roll2:
Quote from: Mike on December 31, 2005, 06:14:09 PM
:roll2: :roll2: BA I am sorry but that was the funniest thing I have seen on this board all day :roll2: :roll2:
You thought that was funny, here is mine
25.3 kilobits per second
Communications 25.3 kilobits per second
Storage 3.1 kilobytes per second
1MB file download 5.5 minutes
Subjective rating Very slow
I knew it was slow thats why I did the test ~xyz
Fogy smoke signles would be faster than that lo lo
I got 4.6 megabits per second....Geez, guess I'm always gonna be slower than WildBill.... :roll2:
Geez, I just tested my machine at work.
86491kb download (86.5MB/sec!)
6354kb upload
Sure is nice to have a really big pipe connected to a really big internet node.
Holy Cow, now that is smoking :roll2: :roll2: Careful you could burn something up with speeds like that lo
6074 download .. 359 upload
:shocking:
Bytes or kBytes?
just tested again ... 6082 kbps download .. 360 kbps upload ..... 8)
Obviously a cable modem and working in fine order.
Some fast speeds out there. Mine was 4455 down, 431 up. Have to try it at work next week.
Upload= 744 kbps Download= 1289 kbps
4455 download at home, 1027 download at work
431 upload at home, 1204 upload at work.
Same machine, different pipes. ;)
My desktop at home 1782 download and 265 upload
My wireless laptop 3726 download and 337 upload
Im using a cable modem
Looks like the desktop is slow though....
Yes, for a cable modem 1.78MB/sec is slow. You might want to find out why. Try it during different times of the day. Cable modems are shared resources for a neighborhood. If one of your neighbors goes crazy downloading movies, they could hog a lot of the bandwidth.
Quote from: nlareau on February 02, 2006, 02:40:01 PM
Yes, for a cable modem 1.78MB/sec is slow. You might want to find out why. Try it during different times of the day. Cable modems are shared resources for a neighborhood. If one of your neighbors goes crazy downloading movies, they could hog a lot of the bandwidth.
That is interesting
The 4MB download speed advertised on cable modems is for the pipe running through the neighborhood. If you had only 2 users and both were trying to download movies, you'd each get 2MB each. More people = less bandwidth.
As a practical matter everybody gets pretty close to the 4MB because there is so much dead time. The time it takes you to type 2 keystrokes is about 100msec. In 100msec every computer in the neighborhood has time to refresh a webpage. So you do get a "virtual" 4MB.
Just check it at a couple of different times during the day to see if the rate changes. If it doesn't, something is slow on your machine.
My internet speed results are:
Download speed:3.400Mbps
Upload speed :2.32Mbps
I checked my internet connection speed at Scanmyspeed.com (http://www.scanmyspeed.com/) .
My results are:
Download : 18.71 Mbps
Upload : 8.73 Mbps
(https://www.ultimatebass.com/bass-fishing-forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fimg.tapatalk.com%2Fd%2F14%2F01%2F24%2Fmy8eza3a.jpg&hash=d89808007b9f69ec51672c04842af85ab2b32874)
This is my speed on my iPhone. I am with Verizon- 4G LTE
20 megs down, 5 up. Smoking fast for cellular service!!!
(https://www.ultimatebass.com/bass-fishing-forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fimg.tapatalk.com%2Fd%2F14%2F01%2F24%2F5u7abu5y.jpg&hash=4b1b95fb9ed0744205f867106da641ed2a9047a9)
Here is my speeds via WiFi at home. Verizon FiOS. Now that's fast!