How Fast is Your Bandwidth?
 

I just hooked up to a wireless internet provider at my new office and have been impressed with the speed difference over my old cable connection. This morning it was 3085.8Kbps! I still remember when a 56Kbps dial-up seemed fast .....

Check your's here:

http://reviews.cnet.com/7004-7254_7-0.html

I still remember getting all excited when I went from 14.4 to 28.8!

I have DSL with SBC (sucky broadband company) and I think my average is ~1500, but there's a regular cycle where the b/w slowly deteriorates to close to zero, then suddenly bounces back, although 3/4 of the time I have to cycle the DSL modem to get the connection back.

3358 - Guess I shouldn't be complaining too much.

I'm on the bottom rung of broadband, as it turns out. Now i'm going to be depressed all day.

Try bumping up your MTU, maybe you can just be depressed until lunch...

1607.6 Kbps - You 1607.6 kbps

1884.5 Kbps - You 1884.5 kbps

2266.7 Kbps - You 2266.7 kbps

Hm....

Blue,

Must be a good connection down there in Chandler. Only have 1600 here in the North part of town!

Thom,

Still remember being overseas in Saudi and connecting at under 14.4 using a dial up connection. Finally the Military sparks chasers came in and gave us part of their T-1 and all of a sudden life changed to light speed. Seems like eons ago but in reality it was just about 12-14 years ago.

JoeA

Florida sucks

1289.5 Kbps - You 1289.5 kbps

another test site if you want to compare

http://us.mcafee.com/root/speedometer/test_0600.asp

Richard - what kind of connection do you have?

I don't buy it...
45333.3 Kbps - You 45333.3 kbps

7404.7 Kbps

Road Runner cable modem

ran it 5 times and got an average around 3000 Kbps. Dunno where the 7404.7 came from

100mb ethernet to a pair of OC-3s... unfortunateyl shared with 3000 others. :(

After 5 or so or on weekends, I can download a DVD iso (linux installs...) in less than 45 minutes. The target sites outgoing bandwidth is usually the limit.

4039.6 kbps

These results are all over the board.

Curt - Cox cable modem

Jurgen - What ya got?

4806.8kbps

TW Cable modem. Just switched from DSL. Was getting 1.5mbps on DSL.

I remember when I from a 9600 to 14.4 and was excited.... Then again I remember using a 300 baud modem as well and reading the text faster than it showed up on the screen.

I refuse to pay $80 a month for the 10mbps connection from TW

You think that is bad - when I got out of school I worked for TRT in the telex world. Yes 50 baud. They were excited when TWX was introduced at 110 baud...

I remember being in the control room of Sun Petroleum - Dallas Texas with their VP of operations talking back and forward with one of their exploration crews somewhere deep in Africa - no phones - the only thing the could communicate with was a telex, realtime back and forward 50 baud.

Ah the information age (and I'm only 42...)