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Internet Speed
Topic Started: Sep 11 2013, 01:30 AM (227 Views)
Trotsky
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Have you checked yours lately?
Here's mine this morning from Speedtest.net (even Verizon technicians prefer this one.)

http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/2956989593

You can check yours from my link.
Edited by Trotsky, Sep 11 2013, 01:31 AM.
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campy
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It's not just a speed test.

They want you to download other stuff.

I found now that I am using Opera as a browser my computer works great especially on WWS.

Opera doesn't carry all that extra baggage that Mozilla and IE have when loading up.


I am getting download speed of 1.02 Mbps and upload speed of .23 mbps
Edited by campy, Sep 11 2013, 02:10 AM.
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Darcie
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Mine says 6.18 and .18

Whatever that means, works fast enough for me.
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Trotsky
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campy,

Just wait until you see BEGIN TEST...and from the link it seems to begin automatically. Ignore the START NOW.


Darcie,

That's Megabits per second and 6 is about the lower limit for streaming high definition video. (With the upload at .18Mbps, don't bother sending anyone a huge file...it will take forever.
Edited by Trotsky, Sep 11 2013, 04:44 AM.
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Darcie
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I have no problems doing either one Trotsky, is it possible that the readings could be wrong? I find this strange as I get different readings from other tests done a couple of weeks ago.
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Delphi51
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No, Trotsky is just showing off his New York Internet. Good grief, I couldn't get that much speed through my wifi!
Edited by Delphi51, Sep 11 2013, 07:08 AM.
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Trotsky
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Darcie,
Try this one:

http://www.bandwidthplace.com/
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friendshipgal
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Guess everyone wants their own Trudashians
Your first link said 31.44 download and 3.86 upload

second link says says 20.16 mpbs download and 3.72 upload

wonder why the difference. I upgraded this summer to a better deal to get a modem with a built in router, it was cheaper than what I was paying for a slower speed. Apparently I had a really old plan that they didn't offer anymore.

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Dialtone
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Our "speed" is the same with almost every measuring site, we are with Telus. (attached 15 meg DL and 1 meg UL) . Speed is a relative thing, you can pay for the high numbers but you are limited by the various servers along the way and of course, the connected server. I'll bet Trotsky's time to load a webpage on most web sites is almost the same as others with lower speed. The only time I've noticed a really good test of "speed" is on Google or Microsoft servers, since there are lots of them, and they are top of the line.
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Trotsky
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Sep 11 2013, 11:10 AM
Your first link said 31.44 download and 3.86 upload

second link says says 20.16 mpbs download and 3.72 upload

wonder why the difference. I upgraded this summer to a better deal to get a modem with a built in router, it was cheaper than what I was paying for a slower speed. Apparently I had a really old plan that they didn't offer anymore.

Funny that,
The second link gave me a couple percent faster...but then tthere was a good 10 hours difference between the two. You've got a nice fast download, FG, and who needs much of an upload.
My e-mails are usually a paragraph or two and rarely a single picture attachment.

For $10 more, Verizon offered me a 50/50 Mbps connection. I said that I couldn't POSSIBLY type that fast...the salesman didn't get the joke. I guess it's not that funny in Kolkata.

I think that speeds may differ depending on the servers that you or the testing site choose to bounce signals back and forth from/

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I'll bet Trotsky's time to load a webpage on most web sites is almost the same as others with lower speed.
And this morning a couple of sites were downright MISERABLE. That's what prompted me to check my internet speed today.

The high speed is most useful to get a crystalline high definition movie stream from Netflix. Picture quality adjusts automatically to the available bandwidth. When I had 1.5 Mbps DSL from Verizon, that they jokingly called "up to 3 Mbps" I could not stream movies without pausing to fill the cache and seeing ugly square pixellization.
Even you-tubes were herky jerky and annoying.
Edited by Trotsky, Sep 11 2013, 01:22 PM.
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Dialtone
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At our speed (15meg DL), I can stream anything with no problems so far. I don't subscribe to Netflix or any other movie source since I pay close to $80 a month for TV service with probably 150 channels we don't watch ( but we might watch 4 or 5 when the inevitable snow and cold that keeps us Canucks close to fond vestigial memories of ice ages long past once more arrives) Youtube and the Documentary website are my video extremes on the internet, and the viewings on them are few and far between.
Edited by Dialtone, Sep 11 2013, 01:43 PM.
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Trotsky
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You know, DT, with a little jiggering, you can route you-tube to your TV. It become VERY useable if you have an internet device like a recent Blu-Ray player but even without you can get a picture from your computer to the TV...albeit with lower definition and the annoyance of having to get up from the recliner and go to the desk to make any changes.

There's a lot of good stuff on you-tube and internet video.
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Delphi51
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Our new TV has an ethernet port. What is that for? Oh, I guess I should read the manual! Unfortunately it is a long way from the router.
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Trotsky
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Sep 12 2013, 11:57 AM
Our new TV has an ethernet port. What is that for? Oh, I guess I should read the manual! Unfortunately it is a long way from the router.
Mine doesn't so I cannot connect router to TV directly. I think that it could be of use for an "internet ready TV," which I think you have. I would guess that such a connection would allow direct streaming of movies from router to TV.

Too bad you have too large a distance between router and TV...mine are 3 feet apart. But like I said, I must go either from computer or Blu-Ray player to TV...not from the router.

Have you tried to find out whether your TV will take a wireless signal from your router?

(You've got a whole new world to explore, don't you Delphi? biggrin 04 )
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