Down Load Speed ...

[griffey3067]

real quick ... how fast is your prem. acc. speed to DL ...

i get 4 to 5 Mb ... my internet speed is suppose to be 22Mb ... :rofl: Time Warner ...


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[Hobbyist]

What D/L speed do you get from Speedtest.net? (ie with nothing D/L'ing OR U/L'ing, no P2P's running, and your machine alone running on your home LAN)

[griffey3067]

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just got the call ... cable guys comes today ... so will see soon ...

[Hobbyist]

I wouldn't trust speedtest to be exact but it looks like the D/L speed issues are definately your sharing service (ie Rapidcrap, etc). The bottleneck isn't your ISP if some connections work in the ball park of fine (ie 17Mbps periodicly).. maybe if you bought a double-platinum-ultra-deluxe premium account : -)

[Dude]

Your download speed is going to vary for several reasons,
the amount of traffic running over the particular route you happen to be using at the time is probably the biggest limiting factor.

And if your using cable then you get put on what is called a loop, that's kind of like the old phone system where everyone had a party line, so with 2 or 3 people on a party like it worked pretty well, when you get too many people then everyone has problems.

Cable is the same way, they put in a loop, the first person on the loop thinks it's great, then they start adding people. They keep adding people until they start getting complaints then they put in another loop and move some of the people off until they stop getting complaints. At least that is how my old cable company did it.

when they give you a download speed, what they mean is under ideal conditions, connecting to the right site, with not too many people using the same route then you can get that speed.

I think my old connection was around 20 times faster than the current connection I have, but I would say around 90% of the sites I use work just about the same. The reason is that there is some other bottle neck that is slowing the traffic down.

[Revroy]

http://www.speedtest.net/result/1033169776.png Not too fast, but damn good for the middle of nowhere....