My ISP is upgrading their DSL lines, and i just got a Huge speed increase.
I was downloading at more then +2M/bs.
its so fast, its crazy!

not entirely fast enough.... thats all I gotta say heh.

err whoops, I'm tired I read it as KB/sec not Kb/sec I have a 1.5mbit/sec line usually around 1100-1200 or so, oh well.

i thought KB and Kb were both Kilobyte

no KB is Kilobyte and kb is kilobit.... 1 KB = 8 kb. Lines are usually rated by bits rather than bytes. but then download/upload speeds are usually referred to with bytes.

Right now i have a download of 1.5mb and it hasnt let me down for the past 6 months.

I always said kbps and and i meant kilobytes hehe.. Anyway, I dont think fast is even a word u can use for my connection lol. It is the crappiest!! It is technically cable but only on good days does it download at 32 KB/sec. On most days its just slow and crappy like a 56k line...not to mention the connection falls everyday at least

4Mb/s here

ouch...u guys suck! lol

Hey Guys, is there any particular place you are going to determine your Internet Speed? What are you using to determine this?

-JasonDec72

well usually the service provider will tell you how fast your connection is and by downloading you can see if your connection is meeting these requirements.

There are also websites, including sometimes that of ur internet provider that will let u run a performance test. I looked one up for u in case u wanted to check out

http://www.toast.net/performance/

oh and welcome to the forums

Thanks for the info!! I'll check it out. Oh..and Its good to be here

np, anything u need just ask

lol i already welcomed him hun i dont get the internet at home anymore buy i had cable modem that was fast!!

yeah i used to have cable back in the day...but real cable when i was in Singapore..that was the life

Constantly fluctuating but it probably averages out to around 3 Kbps. I also used to have Cable (AT&T) but it costed too much (right now it would cost 30x as much ). After switching back to 56k I almost died it was such a speed decrease.

Using your test page I load the 414,161 B image in 151.117 seconds (22 K). My connection dialogue shows me at 28.8 kbps while it always used to say 56 kbps ... too many people are using Access4Less.

that sux...but dont feel too bad..mine showed up to 29.8k and i got Cable!! supposedly

I tested about 1013kb/sec. But, that's on their servers. I tested a connection on a Symantec server, and came very close to 4Mb/sec.

Edit: I'm trying different servers, and so far have reached up to 2139kb/sec.

yes that would make sense...performance tests are usually also dependant on the server.Its usually best to try ur provider's server if they have one

If I test it with the other computer in my home, I can connect up to 100Mb/sec.....

psh...lol

i have a LAN connection. last summer when it launched, he was givin me 35 KBps, but now its a pathetic 4-5 KBps

2.0 - 2.7 MB
the download speed is what matters and its aroun 370Kbs (KBs??)

Most speeds your provides tell you are in BITS (, whereas your actuall connection is measured in BYTES (. So, if you're told you'll get 3mb/s (megabits/second), that's about 375kB/s (kilobytes/second).

this is confusing..
what kind of person came up with this!
12 inches in 1 foot?!?!?! that retarted!

bits and bytes lol yes it is somewhat confusing just wait till you get into RAM and how there can be 16/32/64/128/256 bits.... lol and thats why memory is measured by the bit... now if only hard drives followed the same rules... A high speed network connect is awsome

It's just a matter of memorizing the conversion factors. This is do not bother and/or enjoy going through unless it's useful.

yeah, im pretty used to it now. Basically 1 bit represents a a small puece of ur hard drive which can hold a 0 or a 1.

How is this chit chat?!

Moved

well my new service is now Shaw in Vancouver I get 3mb/s but apparently I've heard that unlimited means unlimited till you download about 10Gb then they send you warnings so its not all that great but the connection is fast enough... Vancouver just sucks when it comes to ISP's

BOWS ... all hail actz.

definately...my connection blows nutsen.

10GBs? That's it? I've already put 48GBs on my Hard drive in 4 weeks... and that's not including the 118GBs of data that is still in temporary file format... in less than a month...

mine would be the same as GTX's. Just switch M for G

We just did a recent test on our system:

http://s95077276.onlinehome.us/Public/Highspeed.jpg

And the company says we can't go above 3Mb/sec...