Test your internet speed

[GotstaFish]

Upload= 744 kbps Download= 1289 kbps

[Creel Limit Zero]

4455 download at home, 1027 download at work
431 upload at home, 1204 upload at work. 

Same machine, different pipes.    

[Chris]

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....

[nlareau]

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.

[Chris]

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

[nlareau]

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.

[Colm]

My internet speed results are:
Download speed:3.400Mbps
Upload speed :2.32Mbps
I checked my internet connection speed at Scanmyspeed.com .

[jelias8]

My results are:

Download : 18.71 Mbps
Upload : 8.73 Mbps

[vzwire]

This is my speed on my iPhone. I am with Verizon- 4G LTE

20 megs down, 5 up. Smoking fast for cellular service!!!

[vzwire]

Here is my speeds via WiFi at home.  Verizon FiOS.  Now that's fast!