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Old 11-16-2008, 02:44 PM
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Obviously the misleading title was to get you to actually read this post...

Anyway, just moved and I got my cable hooked up today. Went to speedtest.net to determine how fast it was... Apparently my ISP hasn't learned to throttle my connection yet. I'm getting ridiculously fast connection speeds. Can anyone match this with cable, or anything else?



Tried again halfway across the world. I wonder when they'll start limiting me to the 6Mb I pay for.

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Old 11-16-2008, 02:47 PM
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My issue is that no useful speedtest server is near me. For example, I get better results from a Norway-based server (1500+ km away) than from one in my own city.

We had a "big pipe bragging" contest some time ago, but I can't find the old thread at all.
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Old 11-16-2008, 03:09 PM
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my home network is a joke, i get better speeds using my HSDPA USB modem
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Old 11-18-2008, 12:29 AM
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something interesting...

our provider about 1 and a half years ago changed all the plans around, with different speeds/download limit/cost. My mum just said stuff them, we'll stick with what we've got (upgrading cost heaps). We have been on 512kb download with 5GB on peak and 5GB off-peak for all that time for 59.95/month. (even when we went over that limit they didn't reduce our speeds!)

I was interested the other day and questioned mum on our connection, she couldn't tell me so i went online and found we were paying 59.95/month for the above. then it said UPGRADE? we clicked yes. We upgraded to 1500kb download with 4GB on peak and 8GB off-peak, saved $160 and got a free wireless phone, all without paying any extra from the 59.95/month!

The phone arrived today. Yay! Silly providers...
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Old 11-18-2008, 02:37 AM
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Well actually, I was mostly just surprised I had that kind of bandwidth over cable. Especially with all the hullabaloo about how they've secretly been tiering and capping monthly bandwidth on supposed "unlimited" accounts.
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My download speed is solid, upload is crap, lotta' disappointed peeps out there!!!
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The above is my connection speed at work. At home I am at 20MB down and 5MB up.

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Old 11-18-2008, 09:13 AM
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With an uplink like that I hope you guys don't block torrents.
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Old 11-18-2008, 06:55 PM
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The above is my connection speed at work. At home I am at 20MB down and 5MB up.
Wow man! your upload speed is 3 times my download speed , and I thought 1500kb/s was big! In Aus, you can only get ADSL2 in the capital cities, and out here you are lucky if you get ADSL! It sucks
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Bam!

Only thing that sucks is this is my schools speed
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Old 11-19-2008, 01:25 PM
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Wow. Everyone's speed completly pwns mine. I pay 32 bucks a month for this. the funny thing is, i can only get download speeds of 100 kbs. anyone know why there would be such a difference? I have no home network, its just the phone line to modem to pc.

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The prob is my ISP blocks the upload speed to limit "supposed" illegal torrents. A**H***S!!!
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OK, here's mine from home.

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Wow. Everyone's speed completly pwns mine. I pay 32 bucks a month for this. the funny thing is, i can only get download speeds of 100 kbs. anyone know why there would be such a difference? I have no home network, its just the phone line to modem to pc.
That sounds about right, used to have a 1mb/512kb connection and thats pretty much the max I could get. These days I have a 16mb/2mb connection and I can get about 1500kb on a good day, with multiple downloads going.

This speed test site seems to have a cap for finnish speed tests, I get the same result for my connection at home as I do for my work connection. My work connection is 24/12 and gets the same 8000kb/s, but then again its probibly getting used at the same time quite abit as I run the test :P
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Old 11-21-2008, 04:20 AM
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Finally did the test thing for real with my new *fast* speeds...



This is the fastest I can get for where I live . Oh well
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Verizon FiOS is the best.


At work, i can get GBs a second, we have corporate fios there. pretty insane
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If only they would pipe FiOS to my neck of the woods, cable has some serious bandwidth, but I don't feel like paying for all of it.
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i went to speedtest.net, and how are you guys doing this? i can only get it display in kilobits. i want kilobites like you guys are getting it display in. and how are you guys getting that little box that has your dl speed to the left of your ul speed? im really confused lol.
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