Spy Car Posted January 22, 2009 Share Posted January 22, 2009 Mine's usually around 980 kbps but it was feeling zippy today so I ran the test and it measured 1011.38 kbps. But I bet some can put this to shame. How fast are you? :auto: http://www.2wire.com/bandwidth/results.php?kbps=980.4&downloadtime=10.245&KB=1226.125&recorded=1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joannqn Posted January 22, 2009 Share Posted January 22, 2009 We have cable internet. I'm currently getting 7.56 Mbps. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spy Car Posted January 22, 2009 Author Share Posted January 22, 2009 We have cable internet. I'm currently getting 7.56 Mbps. Wow!!! :auto: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RoughCollie Posted January 22, 2009 Share Posted January 22, 2009 (edited) download speed 2.27 mbps upload speed 547 kbps Verizon dsl http://www.speedtest.net/ It's always fun to go here and check out speeds in Japan and France, and wonder why we are so far behind: http://www.speedtest.net/global.php The lowest speed in Tokyo is over 19 mbps (19,000 kbps) Edited January 22, 2009 by RoughCollie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joannqn Posted January 22, 2009 Share Posted January 22, 2009 It's actually registering (according to the site you linked to) between 7 and 11Mbps. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tap Posted January 22, 2009 Share Posted January 22, 2009 (edited) 1.4 Mbps This time of day is slow around here. I wonder if it is the kids getting home from school and using the internet ETA I have been randomly testing and have had results in the 1.x, 3.x, 5.x and now 7.22 range. Our readings are allways all over the board. Edited January 22, 2009 by Tap, tap, tap Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Janet in Toronto Posted January 22, 2009 Share Posted January 22, 2009 (edited) I ran it three times...I got 46.78 Mbps the first time, 46.51 Mbps the second time, and 30.23 Mbps the third. Using the Speedtest site, I got 3871 kbps down and 570 kbps up. We're on Bell Canada DSL. Edited January 22, 2009 by Janet in Toronto Added speedtest Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kat19 Posted January 22, 2009 Share Posted January 22, 2009 3.31 Mbps We have cable internet Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crissy Posted January 22, 2009 Share Posted January 22, 2009 9.60 Mbps Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joannqn Posted January 22, 2009 Share Posted January 22, 2009 I ran it three times...I got 46.78 Mbps the first time, 46.51 Mbps the second time, and 30.23 Mbps the third. We'd LOVE that speed but it is out of reach, financially, for us. What kind of connection do you have? It's got to be T3. Do you have that at home or are you at work? T3 is awfully expensive. ETA: You must have updated while I was replying. The speedtest for me gave me 14Mbps. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spy Car Posted January 22, 2009 Author Share Posted January 22, 2009 I ran it three times...I got 46.78 Mbps the first time, 46.51 Mbps the second time, and 30.23 Mbps the third. For real??? Holy Smokes!!! I feel like I'm banging rocks together :blush: Who started this thread? :tongue_smilie: Bill/Cave-man Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hsmamainva Posted January 22, 2009 Share Posted January 22, 2009 (edited) :crying: I live in the boonies!!! I can't even get cable TELEVISION, let alone cable internet!! Verizon won't service us because we're 2 miles from the main road. 939.9 kbps is what I have -- and it's actually better than it used to be!! (We switched from dial-up to satellite internet a few years ago) So, Spycar, I'm right behind you in the slow lane! ;) Edited to add -- I just ran the test again and it read 488.5 kbps ... :( Edited January 22, 2009 by hsmamainva Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spy Car Posted January 22, 2009 Author Share Posted January 22, 2009 I'm really starting to regret initiating this thread :D Bill (from the "boonies" of Los Angeles :tongue_smilie:) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pamela H in Texas Posted January 22, 2009 Share Posted January 22, 2009 Mine varies....today it's at 2.48 Mbps :( Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elegantlion Posted January 22, 2009 Share Posted January 22, 2009 It is at 2.83 Mbps and is running painfully slow today. We have dsl. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ria Posted January 22, 2009 Share Posted January 22, 2009 We get 15 mbps. We have Verizon FIOS (fiber optic). Ria Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spy Car Posted January 22, 2009 Author Share Posted January 22, 2009 We get 15 mbps. We have Verizon FIOS (fiber optic). Ria Astounding! Do you use it for anything other than loading WTM really quickly? Bill Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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H.S. Burrow Posted January 22, 2009 Share Posted January 22, 2009 (edited) I'm so not a techie..... I just clicked on Spy Car' test. This was the result: 438.80kbps. So is that good or bad?:001_huh: Oh, yeah, we have cable internet. Edited January 23, 2009 by H.S. Burrow Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spy Car Posted January 23, 2009 Author Share Posted January 23, 2009 I'm so not a techie..... I just clicked on Spy Car' test. This was the result: 438.80kbps. So is that good or bad?:001_huh: What do you want to to be? :001_smile: It's smokin' fast compared to the old days of 300 baud dial-up. But some of these ladies have scary-fast service. Bill Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ria Posted January 23, 2009 Share Posted January 23, 2009 Astounding! Do you use it for anything other than loading WTM really quickly? Bill Bill, I'm trying to type this without my sweet dh seeing this. Thank God he doesn't have his glasses on...his computer (older icky Dell) is about 12 inches from mine. He just bought me an iMac. 24" screen. He souped up the graphics and RAM. He spent a fortune. And no, I've done nothing more than this. Well, I've Googled. And read CNN. Gasp. Don't tell!!! I keep meaning to install iWorks. And learn how to use iPhoto. And send an email from my machine (can't quite figure out how to start an address book). EEEKK. DH looking this way.... Ria Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spy Car Posted January 23, 2009 Author Share Posted January 23, 2009 He just bought me an iMac. 24" screen. He souped up the graphics and RAM. He spent a fortune. And no, I've done nothing more than this. Well, I've Googled. And read CNN. Gasp. Don't tell!!! I keep meaning to install iWorks. And learn how to use iPhoto. And send an email from my machine (can't quite figure out how to start an address book). EEEKK. DH looking this way.... Ria Sweet!!! :001_smile: We got my 88 (then 87) year-old father a 24" inch iMac the Christmas before last and even with a fairly fast G5, I'm a bit envious. Your DH is a "good guy"! You can tell him some strange man on the internet said so :tongue_smilie: Bill Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fivetails Posted January 23, 2009 Share Posted January 23, 2009 http://www.speedtest.net/ according to that, we are: download: 2395 kb/s upload: 483 kb/s whatever those mean. :tongue_smilie:...it's a laptop and it goes on a wireless thinger..somewhere...somehow. (Yeah can you tell I just click what I was told to click? I think it's the neighbours. Or across the street. Or something. ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emzhengjiu Posted January 23, 2009 Share Posted January 23, 2009 My poor, slow dial-up connection is only 35 kb/s download and 85 kb/s upload! I'm in the dark ages. Judy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LaxMom Posted January 23, 2009 Share Posted January 23, 2009 I'm getting 1.21 Mbps on cable. (Evidently, others on the street have gotten high-speed and are home, or we have another squirrel chew... I'll let you know when it rains) I don't get a broken down upload / download report. I feel so dissed. :crying: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dawn of ns Posted January 23, 2009 Share Posted January 23, 2009 (edited) The first time. The second time. Smokin'! We'll be moving and I really hope the house we finally buy will have cable and not DSL. I LOVE my cable. EDIT: I should add that it feels really good to be in rural Nova Scotia and to be beating someone in LA. :D Edited January 23, 2009 by dawn of ns Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dawn of ns Posted January 23, 2009 Share Posted January 23, 2009 I ran it three times...I got 46.78 Mbps the first time, 46.51 Mbps the second time, and 30.23 Mbps the third. Using the Speedtest site, I got 3871 kbps down and 570 kbps up. We're on Bell Canada DSL. Are you sure it's not 4678 kbps or 4.78 mbps? Because wowsers... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
H.S. Burrow Posted January 23, 2009 Share Posted January 23, 2009 I'm so not a techie..... I just clicked on Spy Car' test. This was the result: 438.80kbps. So is that good or bad?:001_huh: Oh, yeah, we have cable internet. OK. DH came home while I was doing this and unhooked a thingy and hooked up another thingy and the new test result is: 3.85 Mbps That's faster....right?:blush: Like I said, I'm not real techie. :blush: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alessandra Posted January 23, 2009 Share Posted January 23, 2009 I'm a non-techie, so I'd never done this before. At the first site, I got 2.26Mbps. At the second site I got 11211kbs (11.21Mbps) download and 2014 kbps (2.014Mbps). Does that make any sense? We have cable internet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Janet in Toronto Posted January 23, 2009 Share Posted January 23, 2009 Are you sure it's not 4678 kbps or 4.78 mbps? Because wowsers... Yep...it's correct. THis morning I got 40.61 Mbps. But read the fine print at the 2wire site: What does this test actually measure? This connection tests how fast your computer can load a Web page from the 2Wire Website. It does not measure the speed of your ISP connection, but rather the speed at which the page is received and appears in your browser. Why do other "bandwidth" meters give different results? Bandwidth does not always mean the same thing, other meters measure how fast your connection is able to find a requested Website, or how fast you can send and receive email. How do I determine if my results are good or poor? Your results should be consistent and should not change dramatically. If you receive inconsistent results, such as a high number then a low number, you may be experiencing a problem with your connection. So it's a different measure from the speedtest site. This morning I got 4.2 Mbps up and 587 kbps down at that site.....this is a measure of the speed of the ISP processing (I think). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TraceyS/FL Posted January 23, 2009 Share Posted January 23, 2009 From here, using Atlanta (my closet) http://speakeasy.net/speedtest/ Last Result: Download Speed: 10600 kbps (1325 KB/sec transfer rate) Upload Speed: 1823 kbps (227.9 KB/sec transfer rate) Comcast Cable Internet, and I can tell my neighbors are all at work...... Using the one Janet posted i got, going thru Orlando: 8756 kb/s down 1689 kb/s up Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KarenNC Posted January 23, 2009 Share Posted January 23, 2009 (edited) 6786 on the speedtest site (which sent it to a server or whatever about an hour and a half away), 6906 on the Time Warner test site which likely uses a closer whatever. We have a Time Warner cable modem (Roadrunner), speed is supposed to be 7mbps, so we are close. If we were willing to pay about $10 more a month, we could get closer to 10, purportedly. We actually tested this just the other night after the phone company tried to get us to switch to dsl, but since they won't invest in fiber optics for our area, we wouldn't really see a big increase in speed or enough decrease in price to make it worth having to switch our email addresses everywhere after almost 10 years. The dsl in our area also has a reputation for going out frequently. My husband works from home one day a week and often has to do work from home at off hours once or twice a week, so that is not something we want to risk. The cable modem has been extremely reliable over the 3.5 years we've been here. Edited January 23, 2009 by KarenNC Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pamela H in Texas Posted June 27, 2011 Share Posted June 27, 2011 I never think about this at all. On Bill's, I got 2.8 Mbps. On Janet's, I got 2.88 Mbps. ETA: Resurrected Thread...LOL. I notice I got faster since Jan 2009 :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Audrey Posted June 27, 2011 Share Posted June 27, 2011 I'm in the boonies, but SpeedTest is saying I have speed faster than 90% of Canada, so I think I can't complain! Download 6.93 Mb/s Upload 0.65 Mb/s Ping 40ms ETA: Oops! I just noticed this was an old thread, too. Oh well... neat test! :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hannah Posted June 27, 2011 Share Posted June 27, 2011 (edited) It's very erratic, but on the site it recorded 275 Kbps on a 3G card. And for that we pay US$ 65 for 2 GB per month on contract and 27 c per MB for out of bundle rates. ETA: Oh, this is an old thread! Maybe someone feels better about their internet not being as expensive or bad as they thought :) Edited June 27, 2011 by Hannah Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sasharowan Posted June 28, 2011 Share Posted June 28, 2011 2.4 Mbps, but if the kids are streaming Netflix to the Wii, It can take 10 min. to finally get to read one post on here! They're not on right now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
*~Tina~* Posted June 28, 2011 Share Posted June 28, 2011 (edited) What a crummy thread! :glare: Now I'll go to bed depressed. Geez! Mine is so slow, I can't do the test. :001_huh: Seriously, I'd have to wait some unspecified time (by time I mean hours) to update my flashplayer, then it probably still wouldn't register because my internet connection is so slow I'm sure the test would conclude that it must be a technical error of some sort. My computer says it's 46.6 Kbps, but comparing all the other replies makes me want to cry. Can it really be THAT slow?? Really??? Oh my sad little woman, I have been living in the technological dark ages. :ack2: Thankfully I have a company coming tomorrow to install wireless highspeed. Go me! It's a forced update but I'll go with it... I got a new IMac that's incompatible with my dial-up. ;) Edited June 28, 2011 by *~Tina~* Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tree House Academy Posted June 28, 2011 Share Posted June 28, 2011 Pathetic small town DSL ---- 890kbps. :( Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aelwydd Posted June 28, 2011 Share Posted June 28, 2011 We have AT&T Uverse (fiber optics). It varies a lot. Earlier I had a little over 17 mbps, right now it's less than 3. The top speed with our package is 18 mbps. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sputterduck Posted June 28, 2011 Share Posted June 28, 2011 1.7 mbps in backwater Mexico! I have the expensive internet here. There are only 2 price/speed options. No cable available. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mama2Many4 Posted June 28, 2011 Share Posted June 28, 2011 I've got cable internet and I got 14.50 mbps download, and 6.96 mbps upload. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nmoira Posted June 28, 2011 Share Posted June 28, 2011 We pay for 4.5 mbps and routinely get about 3.5. Qwest DSL. It's good enough for HD content from Netflix on a roku. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mama2Many4 Posted June 28, 2011 Share Posted June 28, 2011 I got the above speed using the Speedtest site. Using Speakeasy I got 14.81 mbps download and 7.81 mbps upload. Sweet! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Satori Posted June 28, 2011 Share Posted June 28, 2011 On my iPad I'm getting 2.8mbps. We pay for 5. I'm happy with that living in a remote place on top of a mountain. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Diana B Posted June 28, 2011 Share Posted June 28, 2011 Speedtest.net says I'm getting 16.47 mbps upload and 2.72 mbps download. Which is about where it normally is. We have Comcast Cable Internet, which we ended up with a year of free service (at the fastest level) because we are cool like that. :coolgleamA: {honestly, not sure how my hubby finagled it, but he did!} This after trying Qwest DSL and our lines in our apartment are so old that we couldn't get more than 1.xx mpbs or so. Which I realize is still faster than some of you - but was NOT going to work for us. DH is quite the techie and we have opted to go w/o cable TV and watch everything by hooking up our computers to our TV. (Will be getting a Roku soon). We had to be getting at least 5-6 mbps to be able to watch TV so it was worth it to us to pay an extra $10 a month for the cable internet (which ended up free anyways...) so we don't have the additional cost of TV. I'm not sure what we're going to do if we move into the boonies like I'd like..... guess it can't be to far into the boonies. :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Satori Posted June 28, 2011 Share Posted June 28, 2011 Just got out of bed with my iPad and instead tried my super gaming computer, and it also says 2.9mbps. That's Bill's test. Here's Speedtest. We're able to watch streaming HD movies, plus surf the computer, while never experiencing any slowness, so I'm okay with this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melissa in Australia Posted June 28, 2011 Share Posted June 28, 2011 I tried the test 3 times, first time 543 Kbps, 2nd time 685 Kbps, 3rd time 838 Kbps. We pay $35 per month for 2 GB. reshaped to very slow when it runs out at no extra cost. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChiMomNP Posted June 28, 2011 Share Posted June 28, 2011 We have Comcast cable for our internet and we get 14.29 mbps on download and 4.02 mbps on upload. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MiztrezzLyn Posted June 28, 2011 Share Posted June 28, 2011 Here are my results: I never have any complaints with our service, but am I realy running faster than 94% of the entire US? lol That seems funny to me :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Twilight Woods Posted June 28, 2011 Share Posted June 28, 2011 (edited) Edited June 28, 2011 by my3luvbugs990105 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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