Your Interwebz Speed

[blm14]

Do I win?

edit: I have roadrunner at home and I usually get about 16MB down and maybe 6 up. And I just upgraded like last week to (supposedly) 50MBit down speed. Hrm, maybe it's time to stop by their offices and get a newer cable modem.

[bill]

[blm14]

This is my RR connection

Why the fuck is my upstream capacity so shite!?

[renski]

no, unless its a flood of them. its usually just to test IP address and see if devices are attached to them.

[blm14]

ping speed is latency. It's really a measure of how quickly your ISP resolves from hostname to IP address and from IP address to MAC address.

Upload speed is determined largely by what your ISP caps it at. In theory if you have a REALLY slow computer that could effect it, but your hard drive is typically able to supply data at a MUCH faster rate than your ethernet controller can consume it

[Seething Tortoise]

DL speed should be twice this, but my brother be downloading or some shit right now.

Yeah, this is what I deal with when I'm at home. Still suits me fine though.

[LaGourgandine]

[blm14]

tabris that's like dialup dude.

[Spastic_Koala]

Office computer.

[readytoignite]

ping speed is latency. It's really a measure of how quickly your ISP resolves from hostname to IP address and from IP address to MAC address.

sort of - it's a measurement of latency, specifically how long it takes the server to respond (round-trip). hostname resolution does not count; i suppose IP->MAC does but a) that happens at each hop and therefore as dependent on your isp as your wireless router/equivalent and is minimal compared to packet processing overhead.

latency tends to measure network response time, whereas bandwidth is mostly determined by the last mile from your isp. i have no idea why this figure is included since only grossly shitty ones (i.e. Uganda, who shares a single 1.5 Mb satellite feed for their entire country's internet link) would affect your bandwidth.

anyway - i'm on a 15/5 plan so definitely can't complain:

[sufu1]

[aleksae]

[xSIRCHx]

[samsikle]

hella sorry! fuck a at&t uverse

[blm14]

so far my work connection still wins. 100Mbit up and down.

[pragmatics]

I'm surprised at how good this is considering I only have the cheapie RoadRunner Lite.

[ghostdeini]

bleh. wish I had Verizon FIOS...

[kcsnacks]

Do I win?

edit: I have roadrunner at home and I usually get about 16MB down and maybe 6 up. And I just upgraded like last week to (supposedly) 50MBit down speed. Hrm, maybe it's time to stop by their offices and get a newer cable modem.

what da fuck, how does someone get such fast internet speeds???

fuck australian ISP's, they charge you an arm n a leg as well...

[enojy]

[SpamNinja]

Works fine

[herpsky]

American ISPs are teh suck.

[blm14]

what da fuck, how does someone get such fast internet speeds???

It's because that's my work. Columbia is on gigabit ethernet campus-wide. It's pretty sick. Some buildings are now installing fiber channel for end-user ports which will be even faster.

The sad part is it's still too slow in some places, like when a lab needs to move 150 terrabytes of data from one server to another...

[tweeds]

[riotC]

[Tyro1]

[LaiShin]

[DüM]

I've seen it about twice this speed before though, hmm. Slow ping compared to everyone else.

[duck sauce]

road runner upload speeds just sad

[freecat]

it's university internet, so it can be as fast as 40mbps then be 5 the next day. weird.

[khoiphan92]

fuck blm murdered everyone. most i ever got was 50

LOL fail

this is cute