Internet speed survey

[UtwigMU]

I just got bumped from 10/10 to 10/100Mbps (optics)

So here are the results:


Test torrent download got to 10MB/s speed, which is good - you get ISO in couple of minutes.
Download from Microsoft got to about 3MB/s (at the office in different times I get up to 5MB)



The internet only package costs 27€ a month, a TV+foreign channels+phone+internet+SIM card for cell phone costs 38€

I'm posting a survey on upload/download speed.

[KRSESQ]

35 mbps down, 5 mbps up. Midcontinent cable. Fast enough for Star Trek Online.

[cjolley]

At home, 16 down 5 up on Cox Cable.

At work however

[Umfriend]

I'm at the bottom half of the Netherlands, 24 down, 1.5 up. Fast enough for me for anything I do until I re-install and sync dropbox... but he, once a year ain't bad.



I joined my cable company in 1998, got 1.5Mb/256Kb (down/up) for 45 euro at the time. Now I get above + digital cable TV (about 70 channels, mostly worthless) and phone for same.

[Fat Tone]

I actually reduced my home connection recently. I went from 50Mbps to 30 Mbps on tha basis that it saved me £16/month and it rarely went over 30 anyway. Upload is supposedly 1/10th of download.

Here's a test just now on wifi:



Shortly after dropping to 30 I got am email offering me the chance to double it to 60 for just £5/month.

[Brian Ellis]

I suggest that these speed tests are meaningless, as they choose a favourable site to ping to, while pinging does not reproduce a sustained down/upload, which is always slower

This is the default test with me:



If I choose a different server, I can get a better download but slower upload and longer ping times:



But I can also choose a slower one:



Distance is not necessarily a criterion:



But, if I go to Yukon Territory, the results are not brilliant!



Whereas my fastest download is in Nova Scotia, which is not in the least logical, considering the number of nodes it has to go through.



I suggest you may care to try more than one server and never the default one.

[Fat Tone]

Nova Scotia isn't the best for me by far



Of course a lot of things are going to affect the measurement at any particular time. What Speedtest is about is finding the maximum you can do. My default server is Warwicknet in Coventry UK (actually also my work ISP) but they can't do 50Mbps. When I had a 50 Mbps line I would use Birmingham, Manchester or London to check.

[paulw]

This is mine in Auckland , NZ via ADSL loca



And to California



As you can see local is quite good but international is the pits..

[Brian Ellis]

Nova Scotia isn't the best for me by far

Which proves my contention that these tests are meaningless.

[Fat Tone]

Which proves my contention that these tests are meaningless.

If that was the best I could do from any server then my line is the limiting factor and I have a problem that needs resolving. Of course it isn't going to tell you what every site in the world will achieve.

[Marshmallowman]

The internet by its very nature will not be consistant, but I would think you would pick the best/closest one to test you connection speed. Any other and you will be effected by teh vaguaries of internet routing.

I have been stuck 4M up/ 800k down for the last 5 years (crappy copper and adsl only area) and I think my suburb must be last on the list for the fibre NBN upgrade...but in 5 years time !

PS I only put my upload speed in the poll, forget to click an download speed (4 meg)

[Brian Ellis]

Can't put in uplooad speed (<1 Mbit/s)

Whoops sorry, I put in 4 Mbit/s up when I meant down

[VJ]

Home: upload 0-1Mbps, download 3-10Mbps (I think it is 6).
I basically got the cheapest connection that allowed me some combination subscription, as I don't really download or so.

At work however:

[Jammrock]

10/1. Though my ISP offers up to 50/3. Just can't justify the cost until I convince my wife to cut the cable, so to speak.

[VJ]

I suggest you may care to try more than one server and never the default one.

True in the sense that the default one is picked on ping speed...

But other than that: the point is to test your connection, so it makes sense to get a server which has a high speed connection to your ISP; any other server would have its speeds affected by the internet structure (as MMM stated).

For me, this was also the reason not to get a much faster connection: if I have a 6 Mbit or 10Mbit or even 20Mbit, the real world speed might not differ that much.