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Just curious, what download speeds do you all have? I just switched from Hughes Net satellite which was 1.5 Mbps to DSL at 3.0 Mbps.
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Just curious, what download speeds do you all have? I just switched from Hughes Net satellite which was 1.5 Mbps to DSL at 3.0 Mbps.
I've got 700k. They actually call that broadband here in Australia. To be fair, it's wireless. I could get up to 24Mbps on ADSL2++, but that's not available in the remote location that is our house. The bush and quietness is nice though!
Long story, but we live in a resort estate - it has its own communications infrastructure. Broadband is available via the body corporate through the "fibre to the home" infrastructure and distributed around the house at jaw-dropping rates. So we use the wireless!
Verizon Fios - 5 meg down, 1 up. I can get up to 20/20 if I want.
This is a good test site: http://www.speakeasy.net/speedtest/Just ran five tests using this tester here. The results varied quite a bit, getting the download/upload pairs in mbps of 4.5/0.47, 2.6/0.57, 3.8/0.67, 4.8/0.45, and 2.9/0.48.
This is a good test site: http://www.speakeasy.net/speedtest/
I'm on Cox Cable and just got 13.77 Mbps down and (as always) 563 Kbps up. But then it gives transfer rates(?)
Last Result:
Download Speed: 13770 kbps (1733.8 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 563 kbps (68.4 KB/sec transfer rate)
So what does that mean? See what you get using this site. I'd be interested in comparing.
This is a good test site: http://www.speakeasy.net/speedtest/
I'm on Cox Cable and just got 13.77 Mbps down and (as always) 563 Kbps up. But then it gives transfer rates(?)
Last Result:
Download Speed: 13770 kbps (1733.8 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 563 kbps (68.4 KB/sec transfer rate)
So what does that mean? See what you get using this site. I'd be interested in comparing.
O.K., this is weird. Which tester do you trust? Using the Frontier Communications tester, I get faster upload speeds than download speeds and they are both consistently low (under 1000 kbps download and about 1500 kbps upload.
But using the speakeasy tester, I consistently get download speeds of around 10,000 kbps and upload speeds of 2300 kbps. I tend to think the speakeasy test is more accurate.
Man, it looks like the only thing faster than FiOS is to get your own dedicated T-1 line dropped, but I imagine that is considerably more expensive.
. . . . . so does anyone know the what the 'transfer rate' refers to and what its relationship is to the raw download/upload speeds? Or is Google going to get another click-through!
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