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Since we often talk about computers in this forum, I thought it would be nice to cross check our high speed internet connections to see what people are getting in the way of performance.
Just click on the link, and then the city closest to you to begin the test. It takes maybe 15 seconds.
My Numbers: Download: 2524 Upload: 431

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hmm,

to NYC:
2192 down, 779 up
to Amsterdam: (other program)
6580 down, 779 up

I guess that makes sense, nominally I have 12M up and 750 down.

Gosh, we used to get our panties wet over 56K...simplex...
 
32,000 down, 2400 up (Cox cable internet).

For over ten years, Cox has had the monopoly for high speed internet in my neighborhood because DSL was unavailable. ATT recently upgraded their equipment in our area so that DSL is now an option, albeit at 10% of Cox's speed and only modestly less expensive. We pay $45 a month for service, because we also subscribe to cable tv and have a phone line handled by Cox. Without this "bundling", the internet service would be $5 more per month if the cable tv and phone services were discontinued.
 
ps

I am in Orange County and I used the Los Angeles server for the results above.

NYC server: 8887 down, 1188 up

Chicago 14253 down, 1555 up

Atlanta 11158 down, 1347 up

Dallas 11360 down, 1566 up

I have a desktop connected by hard wire to the router, plus a laptop with a Wireless N card (router is Wireless N). My downloads are c. 36,000 down with the wireless connection, faster than the hardwire connection to the desktop. (and the laptop is a five year old IBM T40 with only 1 GB RAM).
 
Result depends on destination...

For me:
New York: 2648 down, 885 up
Washington DC: 822 down, 769 up
San Francisco: 4208 down, 628 up

I have an ADSL internet connection with maximum 20000 down and 1000 up
 
We do have a glass fiber network here with maximum 120000 up and 10000 down, but I find it too expensive (80 euro per month) and as seen from the above results, these speeds are not likely to be achieved with most destinations.
 
Is my wireless network slow?

I just connected a cable from my router to my computer and now the results for Groningen are: 12560 down, 910 up.

I'm now curious whether this difference is accidental or consistent over several days.
 
Well, it is Asynchronous

More than that, no one can say without knowing what it is supposed to be.

Generally speaking, a 256K up network will support Skype, Internet, E-Mail and a standard quality you-tube film without delay or skipping. Even a 'slow' 1Mbit up network will work fine for all the above and a film in full PAL resolution.

Slow is relative. What are you paying for, then we can tell you, but basically, you never get much more than 75% of your theoretical maximum, and that only under special conditons.

There is nothing you can't do at your speed today or in the foreseeable future, including HD streaming with gen-u-whine DBX.
 
What I meant was that it seems that when I use a wireless connection to my router, the internet download speed seems to be sub-optimal. For Groningen I found: wireless 3580 down, cable 12560 down. For the up speed there is no difference as this is already near the maximum limit with the wireless connection. I did suspect this speed limitation through wireless connection earlier, but thanks to this thread I now know about the existence of these speed testing sites and I will do some more testing to see if this difference is consistent or just accidental.
 
Theo,

There are so many factors involved in WLAN connections, it is hard to say for sure just what, exactly, is a realistic speed.

LINUX is often faster than XP here, because LINUX has a more efficient cache algorhythm. Windows Vista Service Pack One, according to its fans, is also faster, also because of certain 64Kb limitations in the XP design.

My personal experience is that identical computers, running identical OSs can achieve significantly different through-put.

There is a serious bug in the software for many Aetheros WI-FI cards as well as some Netgear, causing these cards to run at a far slower speed than they are capable of. You can look this upon the internet and find solutions, should you have such a card. I had that problem with a Netgear a few years back. It should have run at a steady 56Kb, but never got over 12Kb, and that with dropouts. Turned out the software had instructed windows to throttle the card back to that setting by default. Since it was not to the 'b' standard, I didn't pick up on it.

All wireless cards will drop their speed back to the speed at which they have a stable connection - by their definition. Many networks, especially older ones, will drop all cards to the level of the slowest card. Sometimes, the router is set to the ancient 'b' standard and not to a faster one...and so on.

Hope that helps in your search.
 

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