So How Fast is Your Internet Speed? Test here & Post!

[DerStrom8]

Data limits

Oops

 

[KeepItSimpleStupid]

The key is the units.

 

[DerStrom8]

The key is the units.

That's what clued me in that you weren't talking about speed, but data limits. I didn't think of that until after I wrote what I did about speed.

I think my error is forgivable, considering the title of this thread, don't you?

 

[KeepItSimpleStupid]

Of course. The importance of units of any answer have been imprinted in my head. That darn Physics class.

 

[picbits]

I wouldn't lose any sleep either way

 

[killivolt]

That's what clued me in that you weren't talking about speed, but data limits. I didn't think of that until after I wrote what I did about speed.

I think my error is forgivable, considering the title of this thread, don't you?

We know about these things, but wait till they begin charging for the Internet too! Most customers don't get it and all the charges they pay.

They are oblivious , (Data + Speed = More Money to charge) They eventually will own a good percentage of our Paycheck.

 

[Nigel Goodwin]

I've just been googling - here's the dish (I think, although it could be the similar looking ones for different bands) that provides my wireless broadband:

 

[lynx]

i've spent some time trying it with different servers but it wasn't easy so i can get better
ping times and up/down speeds my ISP is well known in my country, i pay 53 Eur (USD 71)
every two months for the standard internet speed (2Mbps) which also includes 240' free
telephone calls to land lines and 30' free to mobile phones.

 

[DerStrom8]

Wow, I just tested again last night and everything was blazing fast!



I've never seen those numbers on my internet test before!

 

[pallat]

I checked my Internet speed at Scanmyspeed.com
My Results are
Download speed-25.057Mbps
Upload speed-6.647Mbps.
Is this good or not?

 

[audioguru]

Did you ever have dial-up?
19 years ago my first computer came with a 14kb modem that produced about 12kbps. Later I got a blindingly fast 57kb modem that produced about 30kbps.

 

[Nigel Goodwin]

Did you ever have dial-up?
19 years ago my first computer came with a 14kb modem that produced about 12kbps. Later I got a blindingly fast 57kb modem that produced about 30kbps.

So you were a very latecomer to computers

My first modem was 300baud, and it wasn't on my first computer - in fact I'm not quite sure which one it was on? (but it was pre-IBM PC's).

 

[misterT]

I checked my Internet speed at Scanmyspeed.com
My Results are
Download speed-25.057Mbps
Upload speed-6.647Mbps.
Is this good or not?

I got 31Mbps down and 39Mbps up.. and my connection is free.. actually in finland the law says that everybody has to have internet access.

 

[misterT]

Did you ever have dial-up?
19 years ago my first computer came with a 14kb modem that produced about 12kbps. Later I got a blindingly fast 57kb modem that produced about 30kbps.

I used to play "red alert" with a friend and sometimes his mother answered the phone when I was dialing in for a multiplay.. it sounded funny.

 

[audioguru]

I forgot.
I could use the internet only between phone calls. My son and daughter used the phone a lot. I can't remember when they got their own cell phones. They also used the computer a lot.

Here, local phone calls are free. Today I pay $43.50CAN per month for my "slow" cable internet plus rental of the cable modem.
I get a discount because I also have cable TV and I signed up for 2 years.
They would not give me a seniors discount that I get almost everywhere else.

 

[picbits]

So you were a very latecomer to computers

My first modem was 300baud, and it wasn't on my first computer - in fact I'm not quite sure which one it was on? (but it was pre-IBM PC's).

I used to sell acoustically coupled modems at Tandy - they worked at 300bps ..... you'd put the handset on them after dialling the number.

 

[Nigel Goodwin]

I used to sell acoustically coupled modems at Tandy - they worked at 300bps ..... you'd put the handset on them after dialling the number.

Mine plugged in, I built it from a Maplin kit.

I imagine I've still got it 'somewhere' I don't recall ever throwing it away.

Next model was a commercial 1200 baud one.

 

[killivolt]

New Modem, I haven't checked to see what my results were from the last test.





Edit: This was the last one, before we up graded.

View attachment 70206

 

[tcmtech]

My wife got a job at our local phone company as the map drafter for the new fiber optic systems they are installing her this summer.
As an employee we can get the top end internet/TV/phone connection package for next to nothing.

If I am reading her spec sheets right some time this summer/fall we should be getting 100 - 150 MBps connection which will blow our present basic DSl speed of (26 MS ping, 920 KBps down, 328 KBps up) rates all to bits.

 

[KeepItSimpleStupid]

Except windows can't handle it without some tweeks. When I had my laptop at work running XP, I had to tweek Windows.

And then what if your not in the installation zone? Verizon FIOS isn't in our neighborhood yet. I
'm getting about half of what I'm supposed to from Verizon. Seems like they don;t want to help.