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09-Dec-2007, 12:31 AM #16
These servers are garbage.. I usually get a full 7.03125 Mbps on a good server.

I have a 5MB connection.
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09-Dec-2007, 02:56 AM #17
Great speed there John.
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09-Dec-2007, 11:04 AM #18
The trouble with speed is, you never have enough! Once you get used to it, you simply want more.
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10-Dec-2007, 06:02 AM #19
Like to have the 50/50 MB speed they have in parts of the next town, Roseville, CA. by me but even if I could get it it cost to much.
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10-Dec-2007, 08:39 AM #20
Truthfully, this is plenty fast for all that I do. The only thing I could wish for is the faster uplink speed. Verizon is rolling out faster equipment in some areas and the service that I have would be 20mbit/5mbit, now that would be really sweet.
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10-Dec-2007, 09:52 AM #21
Speed Check
Here's a site that i have used,, i dont have the link but its called ,, Speakeasy,,just google it,, it gives you a bunch of locations to check
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10-Dec-2007, 04:54 PM #22
Speaking of speedtest.net, one thing I've noticed is I tend to get better download numbers from that site than from dslreports.com (even when I use the speedtest.net servers from dslreports.com). I have no idea as to why. The absolute FASTEST home Internet connection download speed I've personally witnessed is 23.5Mbps. We used speedtest.net as the test site and Comcast is the ISP. At home, I've seen download speeds between 16-18MBps on the high end and 7-8MBps on the low end.

When I test from dslreports.com (using the Flash tests), I'm seeing between 8-11Mbps speeds.

When I test from speedtest.net, I'm seeing between 11-16Mbps speeds.

Go figure.

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Truthfully, this is plenty fast for all that I do. The only thing I could wish for is the faster uplink speed. Verizon is rolling out faster equipment in some areas and the service that I have would be 20mbit/5mbit, now that would be really sweet.
I think your right and a 20mbit/5mbit would be very nice.

Just stay away from Verizon's anti-spyware offering.

Verizon's Idea Of Security: We Block Spyware... Unless It's From Our Partners
http://techdirt.com/articles/20071206/191923.shtml

Gets bad when a ISP has bad software.
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I never ran the DSL-Reports Flash test.
I just ran the one that is close to me from Mega Path to SF and I did not think it was working because it took forever. I got 85 Kb/s down and 634 Kb/s up and then it said...
Warning: ISP upload compression was detected. Your upload speeds may be inaccurate.
Guess that is why other speed test show that my upload is faster then it should be.

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Did better 2nd time and looking at the history at DSL the 1st test at Mega Path to SF it is not there so guess something got screwed up.
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Not good at all. High Latency and low speeds.

What is with the two pointers? One is black that seems to be the speed I get and the other is red that is the speed I should get or the file size being downloaded and up loaded.

One think I have seen in most all flash speed test is it gives you the speed that it peaks at and that is not good because you can do 95% of the test at say 2 Mb anf then it jumps to 3 r 4 Mb for a split sec and then it tells you when your done with the test what ever was the highest speed you got and that would mean what it peaked at.
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11-Dec-2007, 08:51 AM #25
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I think your right and a 20mbit/5mbit would be very nice.

Just stay away from Verizon's anti-spyware offering.

Verizon's Idea Of Security: We Block Spyware... Unless It's From Our Partners
http://techdirt.com/articles/20071206/191923.shtml

Gets bad when a ISP has bad software.
I never use or recommend any of the junk that the ISP offers for "free", since you frequently get way more than you paid for!
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11-Dec-2007, 07:27 PM #26
I never install any thing from my ISP. Well I did once with netscape 3.0 that was mailed to me from Pacbell when I first got online. Really all it did was change the logo to there that changes as the page load and then they made I think a change to the winsock file. Made a copy of the one you had and then you used the one they added. But I learned how to just install netscape on my own and put in the info to get online and get mail so no need for there version. Plus don't think I would even want to know install anything from them after getting together with yahoo.

What is bad is Verizon's is going to sucker in so many people on that software. Lets hope most find out what they are really doing.
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19-Dec-2007, 07:25 PM #27
I am a heavy internet user but still novice. Could anybody explai n to me how to do the test speedtest.net I went on it, choose the pyramid and get a result but is that for me especially or for the area, I had to choose between to pyramid both not exactly where I am. Thanks for the tip.
I read : download 3144Kb - upload 370 Kb/s - ping 77 ms -distance 150 Miles. is that the distance from where I am and the server ? Why does it says ISP : Opal Telecom?

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26-Dec-2007, 02:43 PM #28
IM supposed to be on aol silver broadband but just lately
Ive checked my speed and one day it was 2000
another day it was 28 !!!

Ive also got a theory that the connection attenuates the longer
you are on
I often find that I start getting the net through a hose pipe
and after an hour or two Im getting it thru a straw....

but , considering Im on silver broadband, those fluctuations are
crazy anyone else experiencing this ?
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27-Dec-2007, 08:45 PM #30
It will be interesting to see what happens to speeds and monthly bandwidth 'fair use' caps when HD films are broadcast and one movie eats up a quarter of your monthly allowance.

I'm supposedly on a 4 meg, and was consistently downloading at 470 kbps - but because I'm a heavy user, that has now been pegged at 350 kbps.
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