Post your speedtest.net results!

The problem with that site...you are locked to your area's regional test server or something like that...I know my connection is double what it says it is because I just finished downloading a file at a rate that is not possible by what their results say. So my connection is maxing out the test server in New York which it is connecting me to and is bouncing around on their red line with so much downstream left on my side to spare. If I could choose a better server (like can I do with speedtest.net) and not be region locked I would give an actual opinion , however you can't measure something with tools that don't have the range of what you are testing.
 
The problem about speedtest.net is it's dependent on flash player which can really give your some odd results (both good and bad). If I believed what it told me, I'd be browsing at a lot better speeds than I really am.
 
RickM said:
That sucks, guessing you've got no cable providers? you may actually find 3G or even satellite to be viable. Both used to be pretty expensive but these days there are provers for both that sell specifically for home use.

Slow net really does suck big time. I was staying up in Scunthorpe a couple of years ago and our little 1mbps connection would drop out every time it rained!
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Checked out the cable company. They've got three speeds available: (download/upload)
  • 8/1 mgbs
  • 30/3 mgbs
  • 75/5 mgbs
We've ordered the 30 mgbs package and it should be available Friday afternoon. It will be a relief over the 6.5 mgbs DSL we have now.

Thanks for the suggestion!

- Bill
 
Protip: Download a 250 MB, 500 MB, and 1 GB dummy file from an open server that will maximize your download speed potential.

Obviously pick the smallest of three if you live in a country where ISPs feel 25 GB of monthly cappage is enough, like Canada.
 
Adam Howard said:
The problem about speedtest.net is it's dependent on flash player which can really give your some odd results (both good and bad). If I believed what it told me, I'd be browsing at a lot better speeds than I really am.
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Agreed. There's no real way of doing a 'real world' test, but doing something like downloading files from your ISP is one way of testing your local speed. I'm with Virgin Media and they have mirror servers for a few Linux distros, so I tend to just do a wget on one of them in terminal.

Speedtest is a good 'rough' benchmark, but cant really be that reliable.
 
True. Years ago someone told me those Java applet tests were the best and truest way of finding out your speed. Nowadays, even I'm not sure if that bit of advice was remotely true.
 
Something like this?

2014-05-22 12:04:27 (85.5 MB/s) - “/dev/null” saved [1000000000/1000000000]

or an even better location:

100%[====================================>] 1,048,576,000 120M/s in 8.8s

2014-05-22 12:01:01 (113 MB/s) - “/dev/null” saved [1048576000/1048576000]
 
This is from my iPhone 5S (over 4G, not Wi-Fi).

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Fibre (FTTC) arrived in my area literally about year ago to this day. Unfortunately I haven't been able to get it tho. The housing estates next door has speeds up to 100Mb down and 20Mb up. The speeds will be rising to approximately 120 - 150Mb down in the next few months so I'm hoping we will have it by then.

For now I have these speeds over wireless:

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It's not much if you have a 200Mb connection but it's almost double what I had last year. Most importantly it a consistent connection.
 
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intradox said:
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Had to move and stuck with these horrible speeds for now. 6million people and this is the highest speed I can get at the moment. Pathetic. Can't wait for Google Fiber. (n)

Home "Broadband", from AT&T
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iPhone 5s, Verizon LTE (4G)
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