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I'm curious what others are seeing for their download and upload speeds/bandwidths.  This link is one of many that willl measure it. Pick a major city closest to you and see what you get.

http://www.speakeasy.net/speedtest/

Comcast sent an email saying that their service is now faster than before, thus my motivation to test it. I'm generally pleased with the performance but curious how it stacks up to other services. I'm using a standard Comcast Xfinity cable line.


My results to NYC (120 miles) at 11 AM Sunday:

Download: 24.93 Mbps
Upload:   3.41 Mbps

T

33.85 Mbps download and 8.49 Mbps upload  to Washington DC at 11:30AM on Sunday using Cox for my ISP. It used to drop significantly when Anthony Weiner was tweeting.

0.74 down and .13 up to Washington DC.    About right for the cheapest DSL rate.

6.9 MBPS down and 3.5 up.
Using local wireless provider with Motorola Canopy 5.4 GHz radio.

No other options here in the sticks other than dial up on a POTS line.

From Saratoga NY using Time Warner standard Road Runner, They have one that's faster and one slower.

To: NYC  19.16 down, .97 up
      DC   11.01 down, .96 up
      LA     4.78 down, .95 up
      DAL   9.95 down, .95 up

Kind of looks like TW limits my upload speed but except for a few times I've uploaded some large picture files it doesn't make much difference to me. My internet station, using Remoterig equipment, works fine thru it.

Steve,
WA2TTP

The closest city on their list is 5000 miles away.  1.74 MBS down/ .4 up to NYC or Washington.  1.4 MB down/.3 up to LA.

OTEnet's cheapest DSL plan here.  Still, it's 50 euros/month ($75)

To Atlanta: 9.42 down, 1.02 up.

Those website speed tests all seem to require Flash  ??? which I don't operate.  Fortunately amfone.net works well enough without Flash.

But anyway, running curl to dev/null with a speedtest server on the other end tells me my 15 buck / month cheap ham DSL provides me with almost 77K download speed:

%curl -o /dev/null http://speedtest.sea01.softlayer.com/speedtest/speedtest/random1000x1000.jpg
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
100 1939k  100 1939k    0     0  69750      0  0:00:28  0:00:28 --:--:-- 76907

Here is the route to the host:

%traceroute speedtest.sea01.softlayer.com
traceroute to speedtest.sea01.softlayer.com (67.228.112.250), 64 hops max, 40 byte packets
 1  192.168.0.1 (192.168.0.1)  0.827 ms  0.214 ms  0.160 ms
 2  adsl-99-141-223-254 (99.141.223.254)  10.862 ms  10.992 ms  10.812 ms
 3  dist2-vlan50.emhril.ameritech.net (68.22.72.67)  8.850 ms  8.593 ms  9.076 ms
 4  dist1-g2-4.emhril.sbcglobal.net (151.164.53.130)  9.077 ms  9.628 ms  26.260 ms
 5  bb1-g0-0.emhril.ameritech.net (151.164.43.82)  9.064 ms  10.046 ms  8.570 ms
 6  151.164.99.169 (151.164.99.169)  10.218 ms  10.811 ms  10.832 ms
 7  asn3549-glbx.eqchil.sbcglobal.net (151.164.248.18)  16.151 ms  17.219 ms  17.597 ms
 8  ae0-40G.scr2.CHI1.gblx.net (67.17.105.109)  16.430 ms  18.115 ms  18.206 ms
 9  xe3-1-0-10G.scr2.DAL1.gblx.net (67.16.163.134)  34.165 ms  33.900 ms  34.193 ms
10  e1-2-20G.ar6.DAL2.gblx.net (67.16.141.238)  34.140 ms  43.496 ms  34.213 ms
11  softlayer-technologies-inc.ethernet12-1.ar6.dal2.gblx.net (64.213.54.254)  34.825 ms  32.528 ms  33.708 ms
12  ae7.bbr02.eq01.dal03.networklayer.com (173.192.18.209)  34.753 ms  35.546 ms  35.430 ms
13  ae1.bbr01.cf01.den01.networklayer.com (173.192.18.139)  48.435 ms  48.273 ms  48.214 ms
14  po4.bbr01.wb01.sea01.networklayer.com (173.192.18.144)  84.060 ms  84.727 ms  84.484 ms
15  po2.cer01.sr01.sea01.networklayer.com (173.192.18.199)  84.422 ms  84.666 ms  83.905 ms
16  po1.fcr01.sr01.sea01.networklayer.com (67.228.118.134)  81.964 ms  82.287 ms  80.961 ms
17  speedtest.sea01.softlayer.com (67.228.112.250)  82.674 ms  82.047 ms  82.483 ms

This is okay for everything except videos, but missing videos hasn't bothered me yet. 

Download Speed: 31950 kbps (3993.8 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 8369 kbps (1046.1 KB/sec transfer rate)

p.s. what do y'all pay for your speed every month?  just curious.  If there's an ISP giving megabits for $20 / month I might consider trying them.  all the offers I get are these sucker deals--low rate for three months, six months then it goes sky high, or you have to get it with junk I don't want or need like telephone and TV.  I have a tv antenna and landline already.

Here's four snapshots in time over roughly a 1/2 hour period. For comparison, even if everyone was able to take a picture of their upload/download speeds at the same time, the results still would be somewhat meaningless, if your shopping, unless all the other variables are taken into consideration.

At 2:17 PM, 7/3/11:
Download Speed: 24312 kbps (3039 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 5213 kbps (651.6 KB/sec transfer rate)

At 2:18 PM, 7/3/11
Download Speed: 25985 kbps (3248.1 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 5213 kbps (651.6 KB/sec transfer rate)

At 2:35PM, 7/3/11
Download Speed: 29412 kbps (3676.5 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 5223 kbps (652.9 KB/sec transfer rate)

At 2:45PM, 7/3/11
Download Speed: 20758 kbps (2594.8 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 5213 kbps (651.6 KB/sec transfer rate)

I have the lowest grade Verizon Fios

Test to NYC

9.86 Mb/s down
1.94 Mb/s up

DSL here at the camp 3Mbps down

.51 Mbps up.

One thing I noticed about this DSL line, when there is storm activity in the area you can hear it on the fone and the DSL is spotty. The other thing I notice on a DSL line is that the speed is always the same whereas the Time Warner speed can be all over the lot. My test was to Washington.

New York
0.74 Down  0.12 Up

Wash DC
0.74 Down  0.11Up


GACK!!  piss week again.


klc

Verizon FiOS

New York:

Download:  30.79 Mbps

Upload:  20.57 Mbps

I can't wait FiOS to be everywhere!!

You probably will have a very long wait for it to be everywhere.

If I remember correctly, when you click on "New York", the location is somewhere near the Brooklyn Bridge on the Manhattan side.

It's also probably more realistic to view the actual data transfer rates rather the posted upload/download speeds since data transfer rates can tell you how much data is actually being transferred in KB/sec. i.e. how great is the pipe between you and the speed tester. Data transmission routing (how many switches does it go through first to get to you and the speed tester) and distance between the two locations also need to be considered.

Mine isn't much faster. In this very rural area of the US, all I can get is .78 MBps down and .21 up. And that's quite an improvement over what we used to get.

But I wouldn't trade this quiet life in the country for a fast fiber connection in the city. :-)

Probably not as long as it will take to get an answer from you :D :D :D

1.47 mbps down and .49 mbps up on centurylink dsl to washington, dc. much better than dialup which i remember being something like 28 kbps most of the time, on a good day it was as high as 44 kbps.

i also use www.speedtest.net (http://www.speedtest.net) it allows  you to choose servers around the world. using one in Christchurch, new zealand, upload is .45 mbps and download is 1.58 mbps

At the end of the day what do they mean? All speed tests are about the same as S meter readings in a round table.

In the grand scheme of things, probably not much. But at my speed, I cannot watch an uninterrupted streaming video. My DSL connection is shared among several other computers here. When two or three computers try and access the web, it's slow-motion time.

Neither can I host a web site at my QTH (which I have a very good reason to do), which I would absolutely do if I had a faster connection.

I have come to the opinion that the latest web page designs with all the crap and animations and my 10 Mb/s download I am now on par with downloading web pages with my old 26 kb/s dial-up of 3 years ago.

How far are you from the central office? I think the magic number is 16,000 feet but I'm way over that and generally have quite good service except when there is a thunderstorm within 20 miles.

I would ask them to do a speed check at different points to your house.

I guess when they put up those 40,000 new WiFi towers, some of us may have a better on line experience? Of course at the same time we'll not be able to find our way due to interference with GPS systems.

When I was on dial-up I was amazed that I did 26 kbps 4 1/2 miles from the central office, which shouldn't be possible if all wire.

It turned out that there was a repeater or concentrator as one phone guy called it about 1/2 mile from here linked to the CO with T1 or fiber.  So the wire pair haul was only that first 1/2 mile.

I was fortunate that this specifc rural area was offered FIOS as early as it was 2 1/2 years ago.  DSL was not available here but was nearby.  I guess they had planned to put FIOS in here and stopped working to get DSL service available here.

Hard to beat the fiber!!! People from other countries would die for our slowest DSL here. And and the reliability. When we were in the Philippines the internet never got too much above 2mbs down and 200K up. Most of the times it was equal to dial-up.
Some cable systems there are delivering close to what we have here, but not many.

I'm paying $64/ month for Comcast internet. And the speed test which is just a burst test BTW. Any ISP will look good with "Speed Test"
I saw 15 down and 3 up.
I got tired of the DSL and having to reset the roooter all the time. Steve 'QIX' says it's a rooter not a rOUter........hi

Those are blazing speeds, especially the uploads at 8.5 Mbps.   Over six years with this Comcast cable, I have never seen more than 25M down and  3.5M up.  Considering you both are also in CT, I'd say this Comcast is slower, but that's OK.  

Eric, you're really smoking on the uploads too at 20Mbps, cheezz..

From what I read, FIOS, fiber optic, runs at about 1-2 Gbps rates?  Maybe they are talking these numbers with all 35 pairs combined, I dunno.


Thanks for all the input, guys.  I can see we are all over the place on the service speeds.  I just wanted to get an idea of what's out there these days.

T

Good topic, I hope it continues  ;D ;D ;D Many people are using the internet to operate their Smug wireless machines. Gotta keep it ham radio related  ;D ;D ;D

Here's the Cox internet pitch:

Which option suits you?     Essential             Preferred                    Premier                   Ultimate
Good for...                   Email & Surfing    Music & Photos        Gaming & Movies    Gamers, multiple connections
Download speeds up to        3 Mbps              16 Mbps                    24 Mbps                    50 Mbps
Upload speeds up to            768 Kbps              4 Mbps                   4 Mbps                     5 Mbps
PowerBoost® Download up to    -                20 Mbps                  30 Mbps                         55 Mbps

http://ww2.cox.com/residential/rhodeisland/internet/ultimate-internet.cox?campcode=ln_internet_ult_0329

Comcast's web site is so busy with stuff, the only thing I found on internet speed was this: "Download speeds up to 20 Mbps with PowerBoost®". There may be more info up there somewhere.

Depends on the time of day and the server. Right now (past the peak of local use) it's 29.09 Mbps download and 6.65 Mbps upload. It will be less than that earlier in the day and probably a little faster at say 2 AM.

I get decent service with comcast biz class interwebs. Nothing to complain about yet anyway.  ;)

On edit: I do live on a main road and I'm right near their whatchyamacallit.

Wow!  You don't do ANYTHING halfway, do ya?

OK, Jared, you got the biggest pecker in this matching contest  ;D

Here in N.Adams MA, my Time Warner/Roadrunner speed indicates about exactly
the same as Steve's,WA2TTP Roadrunner service clocked at. NYC 19.16 down, .98 up.
This is with only one computer up on my network thru a Linksys router off the cable modem.
But I have to wonder just how revealing that test is since there have been large downloads that took a second or two to come up to speed or drop speed 20-30%
before settling in. Uploading performance appears to act the same with sometimes a second +/- to settle down at a solid speed. This may just be the sending or receiving party machine lockin but....

Bill

From the CO, 10 miles; but I don't connect to that; there's a 3' cubical enclosure <2 miles from my house. That contains POTS and DSLAM equipment. The trouble is, it's fed with a 10 Mbps fiber from the CO, which has to be shared among all their customers in this area who connect to it. I've discussed this extensively with the only ISP available here (the local phone company). 768 kbps is the cap, regardless of the distance. At least it's reliable, even if it is slow.

There are no Wi-fi towers around here. I would need a very tall tower with a high-gain array to access the nearest one. The only other option is satellite, which has its own set of issues.

I even inquired into a T1 from various companies, but the lowest price was >$700/mo. and required a 2-year commitment.

on the link i posted there is another site, www.pingtest.net (http://www.pingtest.net), that tests connection quality. if you want to test packet loss, you need java on your computer, but everything else will still work if you don't.

Comcast Xfinity in NH

24.97 Down 3.68 Up Washington essentially same as New York.

I only have regular DSL right now. 2.43Mb down, ~750Kbd up. No chance for fios. I'll bet WiFi or WiMax will drop the need for fiber optic lines. Less maintenance and no need to send a crew out after a T-storm drops a tree on the line.

Yep, looks like Jared is the channelmaster with almost X8 the average cable speed of the posts.... :o  

It appears from the examples posted that most ISP's limit their upload speeds - as shown by the topping out of most tests. My download speeds vary a lot, but the uploads are pretty consistent.

BTW, I recently installled a new  Dell dual processor machine with 4 gig mem,  Win 7 and IE9.   I really like the new Win 7 once used to it.  The 1 terabyte of outboard auto-backup drive is ridiculous at only $65, considering I once paid $1200 for a Radio Shark 20 meg drive the size of a 33 rpm album. This and the flash sticks have made backups a breeze.

I get reasonably seamless video now - it was somewhat broken up in the past due to who knows what. Even if the ISP speed was increased from here, Comcast Xfinity at ~24 Mbps is fast enough for now.  $40/mo is all I want to pay for an ISP.

T

Considering your location, that's excellent speed!




Just tried the test now and got 34.37 Mbps down and 6.79 Mbps up.

wow to me all you guys are high speed.  I am the piss weaker with my .07 Mb speed.  The only time it is inconvenient is when I have a big software update to download but then I just leave the machine and go do something else for an hour and come back--no big deal.  But I have to admit I wish I could get the speed I have at my office where I have fiber coming in--Last time I checked I think it was 70 Mb.  Once I had to install an apple developer package that was huge--it was around 30 or 40 Gb and that took around 10 hours to download. :P  Then I also installed it on a machine at my office and it took around 15 seconds  :o

Here's a little item of mischief to sew seeds of doubt  ;) :  Those speed tests may check initial download speed but they may not reveal whether or not your ISP throttles you back after a minute or two.   But I don't know how to check that other than downloading a 2 hour movie (or apple developer package) as one huge file and see if the speed drops.

 :P With a 200Mb/s connection, the benefit is that pages finish loading before you finish thinking about them. IOW, when I sit down at this compuker, I'll say to myself "Lemmee check the forum." Before I finish thinking about it and reach for the mouse, AMfone is already loaded and ready to go. Not to mention as soon as your hand contacts the mouse, it turns into a ice cold 807.

You guys can have these speeds very easily by taking Comcraps modem and replacing it with a Flex radio. The Flex radios' smugness intensity amplifier will suck all the bandwidth away from everyone else in your neighborhood and give it to you.

Is it the 4th of Jooly, or April 1st.  ;D

My test above is fun with Photochop. My actual speed on comcast biz class is usually around 20-22Mb/s down and 3-4 up with a 21ms ping. Its a hundred a month with TV and telephone.

Id like to know if 200Mb/s is even possible over 75ohm.

73

Tom,

If it interests you, check to see if Comcast has rolled out DOCSIS 3.0 at your location. Last summer, I replaced my old DOCSIS 2.0 modem with a Motorola SB6120 DOCSIS 3.0 modem that takes advantage of multiple channel bonding on the downstream. My connection speed consistency and ping performance to remote servers improved remarkably as a result.

The speedtest.net result shown below to a New Jersey server demonstrates the PowerBoost feature with three downstream channels bonded. When I am pulling binaries from the news servers l see +70 Mbps down for the first ten seconds, then it drops back to a steady 25 Mbps for the duration of the download. With multiple channels available for the modem to negotiate transfers with, there is very little change in my downstream at any given time throughout the day and week.

The best part of DOCSIS 3.0 (in my opinion) is the effect it has with online gaming. Pings to the game servers drop remarkably, often to under 20ms, and remain consistently low. When I'm battling all those cat-quick college kids in COD Black-Ops I can't afford any latency-caused-delays when I snap my AK-47 up and fire a stream of death at the enemy.

:O)

Jared, You had me going.  I was going to photoshop yours and top you but you let the cat out of the bag.  Nice job! ;)

Stupid question time. Why is upload speed not as fast as download speed? Seems to me just about any modern computer and modem would be capable of much higher upload speed. So what is the reason for this? Thanks

Mike

http://www.pcpitstop.com/internet/bandwidth_about.asp

http://www.broadbandgenie.co.uk/broadband/help/how-fast-is-my-broadband-upload-speed-download-speed-and-speed-test

dated info, but still useful: http://news.cnet.com/Ups-and-downs-of-consumer-broadband/2100-1034_3-5810534.html

Pee Eee Eee Iss Weak from central Wisconsin to Chicago, on $10/mo. dial-up.

Terry thanks, now I don't feel so uh...inadequate  ;D  Now I feel merely inadequate without the italics.

Although it doesn't count, I went to the office to do some things to get ready for the week and did the speedtest.net thing and got 94.21 Mb down and 57.51 up ping in 4 ms grade A+ faster than 99% of US.  If only I could get that at home for $20/month  :D

1.92 down, .71 up using wireless provider with the access point located on the village grain elevator about 3 miles away.  (if you are the proverbial flying crow)

It will be a long time before real high speed internet makes it this far out although the wireless provider may be providing somewhat higher speed options soon.  Back in the dial up days anything over 20K was great out here-I think the underground phone lines were buried by the dinosaurs shortly before extinction. 

Despite the fast download and upload speed I have, my speed is always limited by the server at the other end.  It's rare to see a transfer rate anywhere near my maximum.

Eric