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Damn fast, HawaiiMacAddict. Is this from Oceanic?
Mine in MA from Charter is 2767kbps down and 227kbps up.
Mine in MA from Charter is 2767kbps down and 227kbps up.
My down speed is pretty good, my upload speed sucks though. No matter what I do to tweak my setup I can't seem to do better than 300 kbps tops.
Why do some people feel the need to qualify their speed by saying that they didn't photoshop it? Seems pretty lame that somebody would falsify their results for any reason, what would they have to gain?
My down speed is pretty good, my upload speed sucks though. No matter what I do to tweak my setup I can't seem to do better than 300 kbps tops.
Why do some people feel the need to qualify their speed by saying that they didn't photoshop it? Seems pretty lame that somebody would falsify their results for any reason, what would they have to gain?
I'll take your downspeed and you can have my 308kbps up speed
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Aloha DZ/015,
Yes, that's with Oceanic Time Warner's Road Runner cable modem access. I still remember the first time I went to the CompUSA at Kapolei (before it moved to the Pearl Highlands Shopping Center) and witnessed their "demo" setup - a PC hooked up to one of their cable modems. I felt as if I had just come into the light - kind of like when I first used my iMac As in the case with Macs, once you go cable, you'll never go back (to dial-up, that is)
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Yes, that's with Oceanic Time Warner's Road Runner cable modem access. I still remember the first time I went to the CompUSA at Kapolei (before it moved to the Pearl Highlands Shopping Center) and witnessed their "demo" setup - a PC hooked up to one of their cable modems. I felt as if I had just come into the light - kind of like when I first used my iMac
As in the case with Macs, once you go cable, you'll never go back (to dial-up, that is) HawaiiMacAddict
Successfully underwent Mac switching operation in August 2006
Update: So i did what sushi and sycho said and here are the results. System 9.2.1 took 33 secs or less, i wasn't quick enough to take a screenshot on the actual begin of DL to get an accurate time. Did this during peak time using my own laptop over wi-fi (last one was at night using the in house computers (gigabit ethernet)), hence the probable reason for the reduction but this is still no slouch.
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From the Speak Easy site:
Last Result:
Download Speed: 717 kbps (89.6 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 131 kbps (16.4 KB/sec transfer rate)
The rate is true, I know because I just timed a download of an episode of the office and then did some math to figure out it downloaded at 88 kb/sec from iTunes, taking about 47 minutes. OUCH.
I have Verizon DSL, the less expensive one that is supposed to be 768 kbps.
I always took that to mean that if you had a source that was really that fast, you could download at 768 kbps. I don't quite understand how this test result is saying that I basically get what I am paying for--rating it at 717 kbps, only slightly less than advertised, while still downloading at 89.6 KB/sec, which I always thought was my download speed based on the source availability (ie, iTunes couldn't give me more data per second, not that I couldn't handle it).
Could someone explain the distinction between kbps and KB/sec to me? Thanks so much.
Last Result:
Download Speed: 717 kbps (89.6 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 131 kbps (16.4 KB/sec transfer rate)
The rate is true, I know because I just timed a download of an episode of the office and then did some math to figure out it downloaded at 88 kb/sec from iTunes, taking about 47 minutes. OUCH.
I have Verizon DSL, the less expensive one that is supposed to be 768 kbps.
I always took that to mean that if you had a source that was really that fast, you could download at 768 kbps. I don't quite understand how this test result is saying that I basically get what I am paying for--rating it at 717 kbps, only slightly less than advertised, while still downloading at 89.6 KB/sec, which I always thought was my download speed based on the source availability (ie, iTunes couldn't give me more data per second, not that I couldn't handle it).
Could someone explain the distinction between kbps and KB/sec to me? Thanks so much.
Divide kbps by 8 to get rough KB/sec. (8 bits is a Byte; ISPs advertise in kilobits per second)
New DNS server! But my upload sucks...
Download Speed: 6513 kbps (814.1 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 475 kbps (59.4 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 475 kbps (59.4 KB/sec transfer rate)
Holy crap, do you have internet over rubber telephone lines?I'm on wireless right now, (About 1500 feet from the router, with a few walls in between) let's see how it measures up.
Paying about $100, for wireless (I guess? I dont know, all I know is we had to have a sattilite dish intalled to get it.)
Sucks, but it's better then dial-up, when average was 24k down, and i was lucky if I got 33k...
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