Speedtest.net is now live (out of beta) and offers simple, one-click connection speed testing. The site even gives bloggers and forum posters easy links to images of the speed test results generated. For example, here’s from a test I just did a while ago.
Not really fast, eh? But I get by with 512 Kbps (or almost–my test says it’s only about 477 Kbps but my DSL package is supposed to be the 512K one). And my ISP tells me they burst the speed up to 1 Mbps at nighttime (when I do most of my surfing anyway). Something must be wrong with the upload part of the test, though, since upload speeds are supposedly slower than download speeds (usually by 50%).
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Maybe this should be the speed test post. I’d be interested to know how fast other people’s connections are. If you do the test, please post your results on the comment thread.
Ahh, I like this connection:
http://www.speedtest.net/result/44607504.png
9/12/2006
5:57 AM GMT
Down: 11882 kb/s
Up: 5411 kb/s
Ping: 64 ms
Moscow ~ 1400 mi
Note: May, I must say it’s the connection of the university, where i work.
Greetings from switzerland
We home-office types envy you guys with the infrastructure! I guess that’s one thing I miss working in the corporate world: the amazingly fast Broadband!
Bah… you guys think you have bad connections… I’m paying for a 4 Megabit line ADSL and the speed I actually have is the equivalent of a 2 Megabit one, at most.
You want bad connection?
For $40AUD ($30USD) I get:
- 512kb/s download
- 128kb/s upload
- 300ms ping time
Or, if I’ve gone over the stupid 300mb download limit:
- 28kb/s download and upload…
Talk about paying through the nose for crap!
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Home internet. 40 euro per month
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40 per month, ireland
http://www.speedtest.net/result/44643201.png
9/12/2006
9:46 AM EST
Down: 16885 kb/s
Up: 714 kb/s
Ping: 36 ms
Chicago, IL ~ 150 Miles
Hmm, I ran the tests a few different times and got some very different results. Here they are (from my employer’s connection):
* 1:35 PM GMT
* 1140 kb/s Download
* 638 kb/s Upload
* 47 ms
~ 100 mi
* 1:41 PM GMT
* 436 kb/s download
* 298 kb/s upload
* 77 ms ping
~ 100 mi
* 1:42 PM GMT
* 481 kb/s download
* 250 kb/s upload
* 72 ms ping
~ 100 mi
Then, for fun I tried some different distances:
* 236 kb/s down
* 195 kb/s up
* 242 ms ping
~ 250 mi
* 243 kb/s down
* 192 kb/s up
* 168 ms ping
~ 200 mi
* 208 kb/s down
* 197 kb/s up
* 216 ms ping
~ 2200 mi
21993 kb/s down
12143 kb/s up
19 ms ping
Atlanta, GA ~ 400 mi
http://www.speedtest.net/result/44919443.png
Gotta love surfing from work.
6180 kbps download
336 kbps upload
39 ms ping time
250 mi Chicago, IL
8:49 pm GMT
Comcast Cable
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11:42 PM GMT
4907 kb/s
763 kb/s
44 ms
Montreal
~ 250 mi
home connection… normal you may say… but here the trick : i pay only like 20$ (CAN) for it per month!
If you are suffering from many physical problems like diabetes
Well im paying for 2MB broadband and according to speedtest.net
I have 877 kb/s download
107 kb/s upload
But my actual download speed never exceeds 115 kb/s.
I live in Ireland and my ISP is Eircom. Im just curius am I being ripped off here?
My internet sucks, im in the u.k and i have 2mb internet connection
i only get 60.0kb/s when im downloading from internet… !!
Thats if im lucky !
hi Guys,
all these speed tests hold good only for speeds upto 2MBps if you have a 4mb/s connection it will never show you a correct speed
bye
andy