So I just ran speedtest at school.....

[inko1nsiderate]

I am shocked how well my speeds compare to everyone else's.

It doesn't seem to be that awesome most of the time.

[skier]

this is on a G4 lappy at school with a 1ghz CPU and 256MB RAM(maine learning initiative gave every maine school laptops(bad ones))

HOW is ^ so much better than down

[DMB2000uk]

It may seem a lot, but when all the kids are in school, it slows to a crawl (100-200kBps download or something)

Dan

[skier]

i kept running it, and here's the best

then change the isp:

and after school(hardwired):

[Alathald]

Everyone with internet should be using the FasterFox plugin and the DownThemAll! plugin to take full advantage of their internet...be careful playing with the settings of FasterFox though, there are some settings that can potential piss off a network administrator or even your ISP. I use all those settings though and have never had issues with either so IDK.

[martini161]

yeah comcast got pissed about my settings in fasterfox, so i told them they could take all the money they milked off me and shove it where the sun dont shine now i use fios, ove 10 times faster, same price
EDIT: im honored to be included in your sig alathald just dont quote me out of context on that

[DMB2000uk]

yeah comcast got pissed about my settings in fasterfox, so i told them they could take all the money they milked off me and shove it where the sun dont shine now i use fios, ove 10 times faster, same price
EDIT: im honored to be included in your sig alathald just dont quote me out of context on that

Oh, i think its out of context enough already

It's a great quote to be in a sig though

Dan

[Sporg]

I live just outside of KC, this was the recommended location.


For fun I hit Denver.


For even more excitement Kentucky.

[KnightRid]

Mexico slowed me down - the bastards





Mike

This is the 3/768 DSL plan from verizon that they just raised my rate by $2 a month to $31.99

[martini161]

wow you must have your tcp stack tweaked pretty well if you get such similar speeds as far away as mexico city

[SednaPlanetoid]

The freak occurance of such a high speed DL spike was enough to convince me to come out forum-lurker mode and register to post.

[pcrobot]

This is on my new laptop using the 802.11g wireless router that's about 3-4 years old. We have cable internet BTW.



I can't complain...

I need to try this at the college now...

[KnightRid]

wow you must have your tcp stack tweaked pretty well if you get such similar speeds as far away as mexico city

Um, YEA, thats what I did LOL

Must just be Vista ;) I really didnt do anything to tweak the internet stuff.

Mike

[martini161]

yeah from what i heard one of the nice things about vista is that the tcp/ip is tweaked pretty well right out of the box

[Gameros]

I am surprised our network let this through even. Seems everything is blocked for 'security' reasons.
I always thought we had a fast connection here. Seems I was wrong.

[DMB2000uk]

I am surprised our network let this through even. Seems everything is blocked for 'security' reasons.
I always thought we had a fast connection here. Seems I was wrong.

Maybe you just ran it when there was a lot of internet traffic on your network?

Dan

[Mad_Goku]

here's my crappo connection. For those of you in MO i recommend you try the Chicago IL connection test. Much better IMO.

[NAiLs]

Good thing I'm paying for 15mbps. It's a bit off. I couldn't test on the one in Germantown, WI b/c I kept getting 4-5mbps there.


Also, I REALLY wish I live in CA... don't know how many of you guys ever saw this residential internet service:
http://www.paxio.com/home.php?link=Internet

[DMB2000uk]

Wow those paxio offerings are ludicrously fast.

Dan

[NAiLs]

Wow those paxio offerings are ludicrously fast.

Dan

Yup, and make sure you note this:

All speeds are symmetric (upstream and downstream speeds are the same).

I just about crapped myself...