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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 |
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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.
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3358 - Guess I shouldn't be complaining too much.
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04-28-2005, 06:05 AM
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I'm on the bottom rung of broadband, as it turns out. Now i'm going to be depressed all day.
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1607.6 Kbps - You 1607.6 kbps
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1884.5 Kbps - You 1884.5 kbps
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ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒΕ I don't always talk to vegetarians--but when I do, it's with a mouthful of bacon. |
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04-28-2005, 06:30 AM
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2266.7 Kbps - You 2266.7 kbps
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ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒΕ I don't always talk to vegetarians--but when I do, it's with a mouthful of bacon. |
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04-28-2005, 06:31 AM
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Hm....
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ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒΕ I don't always talk to vegetarians--but when I do, it's with a mouthful of bacon. |
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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
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04-28-2005, 06:41 AM
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MBruns for President
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Florida sucks
1289.5 Kbps - You 1289.5 kbps
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04-28-2005, 06:42 AM
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04-28-2005, 06:46 AM
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Richard - what kind of connection do you have?
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04-28-2005, 06:52 AM
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I don't buy it...
45333.3 Kbps - You 45333.3 kbps
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04-28-2005, 06:59 AM
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7404.7 Kbps
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04-28-2005, 07:00 AM
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ran it 5 times and got an average around 3000 Kbps. Dunno where the 7404.7 came from
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04-28-2005, 07:04 AM
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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.
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04-28-2005, 07:06 AM
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4039.6 kbps
These results are all over the board. Curt - Cox cable modem Jurgen - What ya got?
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04-28-2005, 07:06 AM
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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
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04-28-2005, 07:07 AM
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MBruns for President
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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...)
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