Welcome to the MacNN Forums.

If this is your first visit, be sure to check out the FAQ by clicking the link above. You may have to register before you can post: click the register link above to proceed. To start viewing messages, select the forum that you want to visit from the selection below.

You are here: MacNN Forums > Community > MacNN Lounge > Internet Speed Thread

View Poll Results: Internet speed? Stated (unless shared, use actual)
Poll Options:
Dialup or GSM/CDMA or ISDN single (9.2-70k) 0 votes (0%)
ISDN dual, EDGE and IDSL (100-256k) 0 votes (0%)
DSL, T1, Satellite, Fixed Wireless (512k-2Mbps) 16 votes (15.53%)
DSL Fast, Low-speed Cable etc. (2.5-4mbps) 24 votes (23.30%)
DSL Superfast, Cable, Low-speed Fiber (5-8mbps) 33 votes (32.04%)
Cable superfast, Fiber, etc. (10-30mbps) 21 votes (20.39%)
Fiber business, T3 etc. (40-60Mbps) 2 votes (1.94%)
Faster (WTF?) (65mbps+) 7 votes (6.80%)
Voters: 103. You may not vote on this poll
Internet Speed Thread
Thread Tools
ryaxnb
Grizzled Veteran
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: Felton, CA
Status: Offline
Reply With Quote
Nov 7, 2007, 01:57 PM
 
I know I've seen these threads before, but... I'm curious to see what today the internet speed of my fellow MacNNers is. I don't think we've had a thread like this for a while. If we have, delete this thread and PM me to the old one. Also, I'd like to see some discussion of net speed. So anyway, here's the poll!Test note: As a sidenote, I recommend Java tests to all with at least 10mbps Internet connections. Use Firefox, safari doesn't seem to work (I suspect Javascript trouble) and head tohttp://http://www.dslreports.com/speedtests and select Java-based, then pick your server. Better with 10mbps+ down and compression programs active, e.g. on dial-up or Wireless or Satellite. Flash will be compressed by compression programs and doesn't measure well beyond 10mbps. JavaScript or image based tests don't measure well beyond 2mbps. They also will be HEAVILY compressed by compression programs in iPhone, phones, dial-up, etc., making any usage AT ALL of these tests very questionable.
( Last edited by ryaxnb; Feb 15, 2008 at 01:12 AM. Reason: spelling errors!)
Trainiable is to cat as ability to live without food is to human.
Steveis... said: "What would scammers do with this info..." talking about a debit card number!
     
Laminar
Posting Junkie
Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: Iowa, how long can this be? Does it really ruin the left column spacing?
Status: Offline
Reply With Quote
Nov 7, 2007, 02:03 PM
 


Downloads through Software Update usually come in at about 16MB/sec
     
BlueSky
Mac Elite
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: ------>
Status: Offline
Reply With Quote
Nov 7, 2007, 02:18 PM
 
     
Laminar
Posting Junkie
Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: Iowa, how long can this be? Does it really ruin the left column spacing?
Status: Offline
Reply With Quote
Nov 7, 2007, 02:20 PM
 
Here you go.
     
Dakarʒ
Professional Poster
Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: A House of Ill-Repute in the Sky
Status: Offline
Reply With Quote
Nov 7, 2007, 02:25 PM
 
I've been throttled forever. Verizon didn't take it kindly the couple of times my computer uptime matched my gigs downloaded. Eventually I'll switch to cable internet once they convert all the channels I watch regularly to HD.
     
GSixZero
Mac Elite
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Seattle, WA
Status: Offline
Reply With Quote
Nov 7, 2007, 02:34 PM
 

ImpulseResponse
     
James L
Mac Elite
Join Date: Aug 2003
Status: Offline
Reply With Quote
Nov 7, 2007, 02:38 PM
 
     
macintologist
Professional Poster
Join Date: Apr 2002
Location: Smallish town in Ohio
Status: Offline
Reply With Quote
Nov 7, 2007, 02:44 PM
 
     
seanc
Moderator Emeritus
Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: Cambridge, UK
Status: Offline
Reply With Quote
Nov 7, 2007, 02:47 PM
 
     
Judge_Fire
Mac Elite
Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: Helsinki, Finland
Status: Offline
Reply With Quote
Nov 7, 2007, 02:48 PM
 


A nice local service provider, as they provide low-latency connections with gamers in mind, have no qualms about running servers, and sell additional IP- numbers for a €20 one-time charge.
     
Oisín
Moderator Emeritus
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: Copenhagen
Status: Offline
Reply With Quote
Nov 7, 2007, 03:12 PM
 


My connection sucks

(“-1.png”? That doesn’t look right... --- Nope, definitely not right. Still says “Loading” on that site. Try again.)

Ah, better this time, showed up properly:



Anyone know why the upload test is so odd? It finishes (gets to 100%), and then it stays there for a while, while the speed lowers a lot, till it’s about half of what it was when it hit 100%, and that’s your final result?!?
     
Laminar
Posting Junkie
Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: Iowa, how long can this be? Does it really ruin the left column spacing?
Status: Offline
Reply With Quote
Nov 7, 2007, 03:19 PM
 
So I'm king so far?
     
Dakarʒ
Professional Poster
Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: A House of Ill-Repute in the Sky
Status: Offline
Reply With Quote
Nov 7, 2007, 03:22 PM
 
No, yours isn't residential. That's cheating.
     
Laminar
Posting Junkie
Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: Iowa, how long can this be? Does it really ruin the left column spacing?
Status: Offline
Reply With Quote
Nov 7, 2007, 03:26 PM
 
Bah...I do more work at home than I do here. This connection is for downloading and playing games.
     
Dakarʒ
Professional Poster
Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: A House of Ill-Repute in the Sky
Status: Offline
Reply With Quote
Nov 7, 2007, 03:27 PM
 
Don't forget pr0n.
     
RAILhead
Addicted to MacNN
Join Date: Mar 2001
Location: USA
Status: Offline
Reply With Quote
Nov 7, 2007, 03:30 PM
 
from work:




from home (thanks, Leopard Screen Sharing!):

"Everything's so clear to me now: I'm the keeper of the cheese and you're the lemon merchant. Get it? And he knows it.
That's why he's gonna kill us. So we got to beat it. Yeah. Before he let's loose the marmosets on us."
my bandmy web sitemy guitar effectsmy photosfacebookbrightpoint
     
Dakarʒ
Professional Poster
Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: A House of Ill-Repute in the Sky
Status: Offline
Reply With Quote
Nov 7, 2007, 03:33 PM
 
I've got to say, nothing is more entertaining than having an upload speed faster than a lot of people's download speed.
     
Laminar
Posting Junkie
Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: Iowa, how long can this be? Does it really ruin the left column spacing?
Status: Offline
Reply With Quote
Nov 7, 2007, 03:35 PM
 
I can think of a couple things...

Originally Posted by Dakarʒ View Post
Don't forget pr0n.
     
Dakarʒ
Professional Poster
Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: A House of Ill-Repute in the Sky
Status: Offline
Reply With Quote
Nov 7, 2007, 03:39 PM
 
Originally Posted by Laminar View Post
I can think of a couple things...
well yeah pr0n > all duh
who will be the first to challenge this statement as if it is serious?
     
Demonhood
Administrator
Join Date: Mar 2000
Location: Land of the Easily Amused
Status: Offline
Reply With Quote
Nov 7, 2007, 03:45 PM
 


i need to replace some cables to get that speed up me thinks.
     
Laminar
Posting Junkie
Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: Iowa, how long can this be? Does it really ruin the left column spacing?
Status: Offline
Reply With Quote
Nov 7, 2007, 03:55 PM
 
Okay, so I'm still king of upload speed.
     
Dakarʒ
Professional Poster
Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: A House of Ill-Repute in the Sky
Status: Offline
Reply With Quote
Nov 7, 2007, 03:56 PM
 
In the butt.
     
Railroader
Banned
Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: Indy.
Status: Offline
Reply With Quote
Nov 7, 2007, 04:05 PM
 


But it's free, so I can't complain.
     
Dakarʒ
Professional Poster
Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: A House of Ill-Repute in the Sky
Status: Offline
Reply With Quote
Nov 7, 2007, 04:08 PM
 
Yep, that's what my throttled bandwith looks like.
     
Oisín
Moderator Emeritus
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: Copenhagen
Status: Offline
Reply With Quote
Nov 7, 2007, 04:09 PM
 
Originally Posted by Dakarʒ View Post
In the butt.
That was unbelievably lame, but it still managed to make me
     
Big Mac
Clinically Insane
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Los Angeles
Status: Offline
Reply With Quote
Nov 7, 2007, 04:10 PM
 
Originally Posted by Demonhood View Post


i need to replace some cables to get that speed up me thinks.
Wow mighty DH, are you directly connected to a backbone or something? Not even current fiber to the home service is that fast, from what I've heard.

"The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground." TJ
     
Dakarʒ
Professional Poster
Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: A House of Ill-Repute in the Sky
Status: Offline
Reply With Quote
Nov 7, 2007, 04:11 PM
 
Originally Posted by Oisín View Post
That was unbelievably lame, but it still managed to make me
Yeah I usually don't go that route, but I smirked when I thought of it.
The joke, that is.
     
Oisín
Moderator Emeritus
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: Copenhagen
Status: Offline
Reply With Quote
Nov 7, 2007, 04:11 PM
 
Originally Posted by Dakarʒ View Post
Yep, that's what my throttled bandwith looks like.
It’s still better than mine

We’re 90 people sharing three 8192/768 connections. You do the math.

I ordered my own, personal connection (20 Mbit down, 3 Mbit up) over a month ago, but they still haven’t got back to me... I was told it could take anywhere between three and six weeks to get it up.
     
Oisín
Moderator Emeritus
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: Copenhagen
Status: Offline
Reply With Quote
Nov 7, 2007, 04:12 PM
 
Originally Posted by Big Mac View Post
Wow mighty DH, are you directly connected to a backbone or something? Not even current fiber to the home service is that fast, from what I've heard.
Dude, it’s Demonhood. He lives inside the MacNN servers.

(That’s why the server’s down all the time: DH keeps stealing the bandwidth!)
     
shinji
Mac Enthusiast
Join Date: Feb 2007
Status: Offline
Reply With Quote
Nov 7, 2007, 04:14 PM
 
     
Goldfinger
Professional Poster
Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: Belgium
Status: Offline
Reply With Quote
Nov 7, 2007, 04:21 PM
 
3391kbps DOWN and 204kbps UP. Thinking of upgrading to 17mb/400kb VDSL but I doubt that it's worth it. The download speed is OK but it's the upload that sucks.

iMac 20" C2D 2.16 | Acer Aspire One | Flickr
     
Don Pickett
Professional Poster
Join Date: Mar 2000
Location: New York, NY, USA
Status: Offline
Reply With Quote
Nov 7, 2007, 04:22 PM
 
Originally Posted by Demonhood View Post


i need to replace some cables to get that speed up me thinks.
That looked really impressive until I noticed it was kb/s.
The era of anthropomorphizing hardware is over.
     
Railroader
Banned
Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: Indy.
Status: Offline
Reply With Quote
Nov 7, 2007, 04:24 PM
 
Originally Posted by Dakarʒ View Post
Yep, that's what my throttled bandwith looks like.
Am I being throttled? How would I find out?
     
Railroader
Banned
Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: Indy.
Status: Offline
Reply With Quote
Nov 7, 2007, 04:25 PM
 
Originally Posted by Don Pickett View Post
That looked really impressive until I noticed it was kb/s.
Are you drunk? It's about 1,000 times faster than I got.
     
Dakarʒ
Professional Poster
Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: A House of Ill-Repute in the Sky
Status: Offline
Reply With Quote
Nov 7, 2007, 04:28 PM
 
Originally Posted by Railroader View Post
Am I being throttled? How would I find out?
No, you're on the lower tier (cheaper). I was on the higher tier and they took me down a notch.

I assume you're on the lower tier.
     
Andrew Stephens
Mac Elite
Join Date: Jan 2004
Status: Offline
Reply With Quote
Nov 7, 2007, 04:32 PM
 
     
Don Pickett
Professional Poster
Join Date: Mar 2000
Location: New York, NY, USA
Status: Offline
Reply With Quote
Nov 7, 2007, 04:32 PM
 
Originally Posted by Railroader View Post
Are you drunk? It's about 1,000 times faster than I got.
Yeah, but 5 MB/s isn't unheard of, especially in an academic or business setting. 45 MB/sec, on the other hand. . .
The era of anthropomorphizing hardware is over.
     
Railroader
Banned
Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: Indy.
Status: Offline
Reply With Quote
Nov 7, 2007, 04:41 PM
 
Originally Posted by Dakarʒ View Post
No, you're on the lower tier (cheaper). I was on the higher tier and they took me down a notch.

I assume you're on the lower tier.
I don't know what they are supplying. I just appreciate it.

Do you have any recourse if you are throttled?
     
theDreamer
Dedicated MacNNer
Join Date: Feb 2007
Status: Offline
Reply With Quote
Nov 7, 2007, 04:46 PM
 


This is my work internet.

It is dreams that will survive, for a dream is immortal.
     
Dakarʒ
Professional Poster
Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: A House of Ill-Repute in the Sky
Status: Offline
Reply With Quote
Nov 7, 2007, 04:47 PM
 
I have no idea. While they had excellent customer service the last time I dealt with them, I am not one for making phone calls, and I honestly don't notice the difference unless I'm trying to dl like 4 things at once, which is rare.
     
Doofy
Clinically Insane
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: Vacation.
Status: Offline
Reply With Quote
Nov 7, 2007, 04:55 PM
 
512k down / 256k up.

And it's about to get worse. Did a speed test on the new house the other day. 128k down. Man, that'd hurt if I wasn't planning to spend the next couple of years buried deep inside the new studio.
Been inclined to wander... off the beaten track.
That's where there's thunder... and the wind shouts back.
     
Mac User #001
Mac Elite
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: WI, United States
Status: Offline
Reply With Quote
Nov 7, 2007, 04:55 PM
 


I WISH I got speeds that fast. I see mostly 180KBs down, and I don't know how much up. I know it has to do with me having a satellite ISP. With a Fair Access Policy. So my bandwidth is limited, and I mean seriously limited. 425MB down and they cut me out for 24 hours.
I have returned... 2020 MacBook Air - 1.1 GHz Quad-Core i5 - 16 GB RAM
     
Mastrap
Addicted to MacNN
Join Date: Sep 2001
Location: Toronto
Status: Offline
Reply With Quote
Nov 7, 2007, 05:06 PM
 


Quite the upload speed - I had no idea.
     
Oisín
Moderator Emeritus
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: Copenhagen
Status: Offline
Reply With Quote
Nov 7, 2007, 05:28 PM
 
I WISH I got speeds that fast. I see mostly 180KBs down, and I don't know how much up.
The numbers in this test (as Internet connection speeds generally) are in Kb (kilobits), not KB (kilobytes). So your 1,400 kb/sec is actually about 175 KB/sec.

I know it has to do with me having a satellite ISP. With a Fair Access Policy. So my bandwidth is limited, and I mean seriously limited. 425MB down and they cut me out for 24 hours.
425 MB... over how long a period?
     
Rumor
Moderator
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: on the verge of insanity
Status: Offline
Reply With Quote
Nov 7, 2007, 05:29 PM
 
It seems like this thread pops up every couple of months.
I like my water with hops, malt, hops, yeast, and hops.
     
Laminar
Posting Junkie
Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: Iowa, how long can this be? Does it really ruin the left column spacing?
Status: Offline
Reply With Quote
Nov 7, 2007, 05:36 PM
 
Originally Posted by Mac User #001 View Post


I WISH I got speeds that fast. I see mostly 180KBs down, and I don't know how much up.
1392 is in kiloBITS (kb) per second. 1392/8=174 kiloBYTES (KB) per second.
( Last edited by Laminar; Nov 7, 2007 at 05:42 PM. Reason: looks like I got beat)
     
Mac User #001
Mac Elite
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: WI, United States
Status: Offline
Reply With Quote
Nov 7, 2007, 05:37 PM
 
Originally Posted by Oisín View Post
The numbers in this test (as Internet connection speeds generally) are in Kb (kilobits), not KB (kilobytes). So your 1,400 kb/sec is actually about 175 KB/sec.

425 MB... over how long a period?
Ah. Good to know that I'm getting the speeds I'm supposed to, and possibly over.

Its 425MB over a 24 hour period. A while back it was 350MB (or something like that) during a 3-4 (forget exactly) hour period, which I preferred much more. Because then I could hit it and only have to wait those hours to get it back again.
I have returned... 2020 MacBook Air - 1.1 GHz Quad-Core i5 - 16 GB RAM
     
paul w
Mac Elite
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Vente: Achat
Status: Offline
Reply With Quote
Nov 7, 2007, 05:44 PM
 


(at work, :/ )
     
Rumor
Moderator
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: on the verge of insanity
Status: Offline
Reply With Quote
Nov 7, 2007, 05:47 PM
 
Originally Posted by Mac User #001 View Post


I WISH I got speeds that fast. I see mostly 180KBs down, and I don't know how much up. I know it has to do with me having a satellite ISP. With a Fair Access Policy. So my bandwidth is limited, and I mean seriously limited. 425MB down and they cut me out for 24 hours.
Wow, the latency looks horrid.
I like my water with hops, malt, hops, yeast, and hops.
     
shifuimam
Addicted to MacNN
Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: The deep backwoods of the PNW
Status: Offline
Reply With Quote
Nov 7, 2007, 06:01 PM
 
At work: 11.5 Mbps down, 8.1 Mbps up.

At home: I'm on the cheapest DSL option (768/128 Kbps), so I'm going to estimate that I probably get about 320/52 on a good day.

I miss my 1.5 Mbps service.

-----

I got 18 Mbps the second time I ran the test from work. Win.
Sell or send me your vintage Mac things if you don't want them.
     
 
Thread Tools
 
Forum Links
Forum Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts
BB code is On
Smilies are On
[IMG] code is On
HTML code is Off
Top
Privacy Policy
All times are GMT -4. The time now is 04:11 AM.
All contents of these forums © 1995-2017 MacNN. All rights reserved.
Branding + Design: www.gesamtbild.com
vBulletin v.3.8.8 © 2000-2017, Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd.,