internet speed

[masraum]

Yeah, a T1 is great, but with today's dsl... I'm at 6mb down and 768k up. I suspect my uptime is also in the 99-97% range. I think I notice it down once or twice a year at most. I have a dynamic IP, but I think I usually keep the same IP for anywhere from 6-24 months. I know at one point in the past, I had the same IP for more than 18months.

[t951]

I have my router connect to DDNS and register a name once a month, It doesn't matter if my ip changes because I connect via name. and it's free!

dynamicdns,org

[cl8ton]

Wow, haven't heard the term ISDN since I cobbled the A/B channels years ago to get my whopping 128k!

DSL biz account here w/5 static IP's and 1m down/.7m up is $39 month.
And have the option to turn the knob up for more bandwidth!

I run some hobby websites on home servers

Also agree on the T1!

[SlowToady]

ISDN..the good old days. When my friend's dad moved out to our area, he couldn't get anything decent, connection wise. This was when DSL was first emerging as the New Hot Thing, and cable wasn't available in the area. So he got ISDN instead, and had a block of 256 IPs. Yep, for the house. We ran tons and tons of machines, all world reachable, and had great fun. It was a business class ISDN account, since he worked from home, and I recall the bill being staggeringly high. Eventually it was cheaper to just pay for AT&T to install the required lines for DSL, and he did.

Man, ISDN. I thought I was the bomb with my Red Hat 5.2 box, a 133mhz P1 Dell with 128MB of RAM. downloading stuff at 14KB/sec. Got my first introduction to Solaris there also.

Oh the good ol' days...

[svandamme]

i think i need to upgrade my basic account
or maybe turn off Bittorent


The Top 5
Belgium 32644 kb/s 28788 kb/s
Japan 12786 kb/s 5960 kb/s
Sweden 8374 kb/s 2829 kb/s
Latvia 7154 kb/s 2714 kb/s
Romania 6985 kb/s 3208 kb/s

[cl8ton]

Back in the ISDN days your only other real option was modem in my neck of the woods!

I Remember hooking up my ISDN with a Cisco/ISDN router with all those lights, it lit up like a Christmas tree at night!
First time surfing with ISDN I though "This is fokkin great! look how quick I'm moving around on the net" then proceeded to pitch my modem.

Especially when the B channel lights kicked in you just knew you were going full boost!

[bell]

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i just tested mine.....i'm paying cox for 15mps, best i've gotten is 4500 down and 1100 up......
could i have a bad cable modem? or neighbors watching porn?

[red-beard]

[red-beard]

My "backup" DSL connection

[Ronbo]

I can't complain.

[rcecale]

I use http://www.testmy.net

Download results = 12305 Kbps or 12.3 Mbps (1502 kB/s)
Upload results = 2437 Kbps or 2.4 Mbps (297 kB/s)

I think I'm doing alright with Comcast Cable.

Randy

[rcecale]

Then again, SpeedTest shows a different result...



Randy

[Aurel]

Here is a trick if you are on wireless: I noticed several signals around my house using channel 11, and my FIOS was crawling at ~3,000 kbps.
So, I switched to a channel nobody uses (7 in this case), and immediately noticed a significant increase in my download speed.
Now, I am where it should be:

[TerryH]

I test at www.dslreports.com occasionally. You can save/compare your speeds to others or yourself. This site has reviews of ISPs and tools to help you troubleshoot problems.