Here's my speakeasy result. I'll give the speedtest server a try also. I'm on a gigabit connection at my workstation, but it looks like my company needs to upgrade some of teh tubes.
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Post Your Connection Speed Part Two
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Japan YahooBB, ADSL. I didn't choose the highest speed offered simply because I didn't believe it would really make much difference. DSL and ADSL are both distance sensitive, so buying the higher bandwidth, more expensive package is often times a waste of money -- you can't go faster than what your distance from the DSLAM allows.
Not so bad... The 12 GB/month download/upload limit sucks though.
... and this is what I get for going over that limit:
^ Caps suck 
Here is Aus, your speed goes down to 56k if you exceed your download limit and are on Telstra.
Here is Aus, your speed goes down to 56k if you exceed your download limit and are on Telstra.
I hope everyone remembers, that these speed tests do not measure sustained throughput.
If you want to see what your DL speed truly is, then you can try this.
Go to the Apple website and DL Mac OS 9.2.1 North American update. It is 82MB in size. Time how long it takes to DL this file from the Apple website.
Here would be my speed criteria:
Reasonable --> 3 minutes or less
Decent --> 1 minute or less
Fast --> 10 seconds or less
BTW, my friend's service was FTTH (100Mbps) which averaged 9 seconds, with the fastest being 7 seconds and the slowest being 12 seconds. Cost was $40 per month.
I have cheap ADSL which costs me about $25 per month. I just DL'ed the file in under 1 minute -- about 58 seconds.
That is good enough for me and worth the price. I could upgrade to faster ADSL (VDSL) service, but it would cost me about $45 per month. Unfortunately, in my area, I cannot get FTTH.
Oh, and the speed tests never give an accurate reading of my actual speed.
If you want to see what your DL speed truly is, then you can try this.
Go to the Apple website and DL Mac OS 9.2.1 North American update. It is 82MB in size. Time how long it takes to DL this file from the Apple website.
Here would be my speed criteria:
Reasonable --> 3 minutes or less
Decent --> 1 minute or less
Fast --> 10 seconds or less
BTW, my friend's service was FTTH (100Mbps) which averaged 9 seconds, with the fastest being 7 seconds and the slowest being 12 seconds. Cost was $40 per month.
I have cheap ADSL which costs me about $25 per month. I just DL'ed the file in under 1 minute -- about 58 seconds.
That is good enough for me and worth the price. I could upgrade to faster ADSL (VDSL) service, but it would cost me about $45 per month. Unfortunately, in my area, I cannot get FTTH.
Oh, and the speed tests never give an accurate reading of my actual speed.
