Fez Posted June 26, 2011 Group: Royal Member Followers: 3 Topic Count: 683 Topics Per Day: 0.12 Content Count: 11,128 Content Per Day: 1.99 Reputation: 1,352 Days Won: 54 Joined: 02/03/2009 Status: Offline Birthday: 12/07/1952 Share Posted June 26, 2011 I am interested to know what others download speeds are, Where I live, the speed on wireless (we don't have a fixed line), is very slow and can be very frustrating when posting at times. The site is My link' I use it often and it is legit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OneLight Posted June 27, 2011 Group: Royal Member Followers: 22 Topic Count: 1,294 Topics Per Day: 0.21 Content Count: 31,762 Content Per Day: 5.22 Reputation: 9,763 Days Won: 115 Joined: 09/14/2007 Status: Offline Share Posted June 27, 2011 I use Speakeasy and my test results are 18.22 Mbps up and 3.63 Mbps down. You site tells me I am 18.31 Mbps up and 3.77 Mbps down. Are is your speed? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fez Posted June 27, 2011 Group: Royal Member Followers: 3 Topic Count: 683 Topics Per Day: 0.12 Content Count: 11,128 Content Per Day: 1.99 Reputation: 1,352 Days Won: 54 Joined: 02/03/2009 Status: Offline Birthday: 12/07/1952 Author Share Posted June 27, 2011 I use Speakeasy and my test results are 18.22 Mbps up and 3.63 Mbps down. You site tells me I am 18.31 Mbps up and 3.77 Mbps down. Are is your speed? I am lucky to get 1.5 Mbps up and .50 down. It is one of the reasons that when people post external links I often do not go to them. I have (seriously), at times opened Worthy and gone and made a cup of coffee. Welcome to the African reality in outlying areas (our towns are a lot faster...), but we cannot get anymore lines in here, so wireless is the only way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted June 27, 2011 Share Posted June 27, 2011 Don't feel bad, Fez. Get into the rural areas here in the U.S. and its pretty much the same thing. Your choices usually boil down to either Dial-up (land line phone) or wireless for Internet access. There are some who have satellite access, but that can have problems with weather, etc. Things are different in town where you have more choices and more speed too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
other one Posted June 27, 2011 Group: Worthy Ministers Followers: 29 Topic Count: 599 Topics Per Day: 0.08 Content Count: 56,260 Content Per Day: 7.56 Reputation: 27,988 Days Won: 271 Joined: 12/29/2003 Status: Offline Share Posted June 27, 2011 Fez, at home our ping-seak time is almost always less than 100 ms, and the download speed is 3meg. We are at a condo in Vail Colorado and with an ATT hot site, the ping timing is about 200 ms, and the download speed on three tests averaged about 600k and upload speed of 370k This place is slow to what I'm used to at home, but home is slower than it used to be. (long story). I've been in some motels with supposedly high speed wifi that has had such slow speed I just gave up and turned the laptop off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fez Posted June 27, 2011 Group: Royal Member Followers: 3 Topic Count: 683 Topics Per Day: 0.12 Content Count: 11,128 Content Per Day: 1.99 Reputation: 1,352 Days Won: 54 Joined: 02/03/2009 Status: Offline Birthday: 12/07/1952 Author Share Posted June 27, 2011 Fez, at home our ping-seak time is almost always less than 100 ms, and the download speed is 3meg. We are at a condo in Vail Colorado and with an ATT hot site, the ping timing is about 200 ms, and the download speed on three tests averaged about 600k and upload speed of 370k This place is slow to what I'm used to at home, but home is slower than it used to be. (long story). I've been in some motels with supposedly high speed wifi that has had such slow speed I just gave up and turned the laptop off. From the replies (except for that show off OneLight ), tell me that I am not as bad off as I thought..... It varies greatly here. The last test (when I logged on now) was 75ms ping, download .94 Mbps and upload .30 Mbps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jodetoad Posted June 27, 2011 Group: Junior Member Followers: 1 Topic Count: 8 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 86 Content Per Day: 0.02 Reputation: 4 Days Won: 0 Joined: 05/14/2011 Status: Offline Birthday: 02/06/1953 Share Posted June 27, 2011 I got 813ms ping 1.60 mbps down .06 mbps up On satellite. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joi Posted June 27, 2011 Group: Royal Member Followers: 1 Topic Count: 506 Topics Per Day: 0.11 Content Count: 1,922 Content Per Day: 0.41 Reputation: 173 Days Won: 4 Joined: 06/12/2011 Status: Offline Share Posted June 27, 2011 How do I check my speeds? I am still on dial up and I actually get fair downloads, but video is impossible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OneLight Posted June 28, 2011 Group: Royal Member Followers: 22 Topic Count: 1,294 Topics Per Day: 0.21 Content Count: 31,762 Content Per Day: 5.22 Reputation: 9,763 Days Won: 115 Joined: 09/14/2007 Status: Offline Share Posted June 28, 2011 Fez, at home our ping-seak time is almost always less than 100 ms, and the download speed is 3meg. We are at a condo in Vail Colorado and with an ATT hot site, the ping timing is about 200 ms, and the download speed on three tests averaged about 600k and upload speed of 370k This place is slow to what I'm used to at home, but home is slower than it used to be. (long story). I've been in some motels with supposedly high speed wifi that has had such slow speed I just gave up and turned the laptop off. From the replies (except for that show off OneLight ), tell me that I am not as bad off as I thought..... It varies greatly here. The last test (when I logged on now) was 75ms ping, download .94 Mbps and upload .30 Mbps. ... it's cable, bro! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OneLight Posted June 28, 2011 Group: Royal Member Followers: 22 Topic Count: 1,294 Topics Per Day: 0.21 Content Count: 31,762 Content Per Day: 5.22 Reputation: 9,763 Days Won: 115 Joined: 09/14/2007 Status: Offline Share Posted June 28, 2011 I use Speakeasy and my test results are 18.22 Mbps up and 3.63 Mbps down. You site tells me I am 18.31 Mbps up and 3.77 Mbps down. Are is your speed? Is this your wireless speed yes. I have cable in, connected to a Netgear N600 dual band gigabit wireless router. If I used a cat 5e cable, it would be even faster. I do this for a living, constantly connecting to our servers at work to fix things when I am home. If I had dial up, I'd have to get dressed and drive there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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