How fast is your internet connection?

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That's interesting. My Download was 6063 kb/s, and my upload was 528 kb/s. I don't know whether that's fast or not. It always seems fast enough - unless I'm in a hurry!
 
tcalbrecht said:
Is this some measure of manhood? :D
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Not at all. Ladies are encouraged to participate too.
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I just thought it would be interesting for some of us to discover whether or not what we consider high speed internet is really high speed. It looks like I have been deceived for sure. :(
 
Ok., I've given up on putting the nice picture of my results up. But here they are

Download - 3285
upload - 487
 
speedtest.net is merely fancy graphics covering a not terribly good speed test. I find the best one is numion.com whilst dan ewells speed test is quite good but a bit tedious and can be found at Dan Elwell's Broadband Speed Test - downloadable utility to perform tests on your ADSL, DSL, Cable or Wireless Internet connection.. Speed test websites merely give an idication which cannot be relied upon. You are actually better going to something like tucows.com to download a file, preferably a large file. Then after checking the transfer rate for a few seconds you can then cancel the download.
 
And to think I learned COBAL and BASIC and used 8 inch floppy disks! It was an improvement over the punch cards. :p

My laptop that I use is what I used to dream about when watching Star Trek.
 
Yes, I've seen the show. Pretty good too! Cell phones that look like communicators! I've got all the computer sounds, so that my laptop behaves just like the computer on Star Trek Voyager, but no cell phone yet.

Reformedcop, what do you have??
 
Grymir said:
Yes, I've seen the show. Pretty good too! Cell phones that look like communicators! I've got all the computer sounds, so that my laptop behaves just like the computer on Star Trek Voyager, but no cell phone yet.

Reformedcop, what do you have??
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Comcast Cable is my ISP
 
Verizon has been going door to door in my neighborhood announcing that they're wiring us up for FiOS - whatever that is. They promise that our computers will work "5 times faster" - whatever that means!

It's like the countless TV ads that say "7 out of 10 doctors approve". Now, if they said "7 out of every 10 doctors approve" - now you've got something impressive.

So, we'll see. It's supposed to happen in another week.
 
I have a T-1000 internet line which gives me a 5,120,000.00 MBs connection leading to 8,884 kbps on download rates and 4,442 kbps on the upload. I recently upgraded from the T-900 beta, so now I have transfer rates which exceed the speed of light. That way the files are on my computer before I even download them! :smug:
 
danmpem said:
I have a T-1000 internet line which gives me a 5,120,000.00 MBs connection leading to 8,884 kbps on download rates and 4,442 kbps on the upload. I recently upgraded from the T-900 beta, so now I have transfer rates which exceed the speed of light. That way the files are on my computer before I even download them! :smug:
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:lol:

But what about the temporal prime directive?
 
bookslover said:
Verizon has been going door to door in my neighborhood announcing that they're wiring us up for FiOS - whatever that is. They promise that our computers will work "5 times faster" - whatever that means!

It's like the countless TV ads that say "7 out of 10 doctors approve". Now, if they said "7 out of every 10 doctors approve" - now you've got something impressive.

So, we'll see. It's supposed to happen in another week.
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You should tell Verizon that it's all a scam. Faster internet never increases the speed of your computer. If they are telling you that, then either they're trying to scam you (probably not), or that guy who came by didn't know what he was talking about.
 
Temporal Prime Directive violation... hmm, I see another Puritan Trek episode commin! Now if we could just get back to the Reformed quadrant....
 
Grymir said:
Temporal Prime Directive violation... hmm, I see another Puritan Trek episode commin! Now if we could just get back to the Reformed quadrant....
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Yes, tune in next week when Capitan Grymir must decide if he will set aside the Prime Directive {read: RPW} in order to get his crew more quickly through Emergent Space.

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