How fast is your internet?

[JBCM627]

Teehee I'm still faster than everybody (upload speed)

...and what server did you try this from? Good job painting it out. Upload seems to depend a lot on what server I select. Being at OSU in Columbus, I can get almost 20Mb/s from Piketon, but only 9.5 from Columbus, which should be closer, although apparently it isn't. I tried this with a few locations, and got 7-10Mb/s upload in general, and 80-90 Mb/s download in general.

In general, academic institutions get discounted internet rates and have very good internet connections. I'd be curious how what I posted above compares to other colleges.

 

[fundash]

Last test taken at moms house:


Last test taken at dads house:

 

[skarian]

so sad...

 

[Anthony]

so sad...

lol, same server. I'm about 50 miles from McAllen though.

I got 2.98, 1.93.

 

[dbax0999]

 

[CubesOfTheWorld]

and I thought my computer was fast!

 

[iasimp1997]

7.18
3.34

 

[fundash]

and I thought my computer was fast!

this has nothing to do with your computer...
EDIT: winsock....

 

[skarian]

so sad...

lol, same server. I'm about 50 miles from McAllen though.

I got 2.98, 1.93.

lol i guess texas is slow

 

[Carson]

...and what server did you try this from? Good job painting it out. Upload seems to depend a lot on what server I select. Being at OSU in Columbus, I can get almost 20Mb/s from Piketon, but only 9.5 from Columbus, which should be closer, although apparently it isn't. I tried this with a few locations, and got 7-10Mb/s upload in general, and 80-90 Mb/s download in general.

In general, academic institutions get discounted internet rates and have very good internet connections. I'd be curious how what I posted above compares to other colleges.

A big part of this is routing, especially if you pay attention to ping. Being closer to a server doesn't always mean that you will have fewer "hops" to it than to one further away. For anyone familiar with the Eastern portion of the US, I live in southern Kentucky, and I almost always test higher and have lower latency on speed tests to Chicago than on tests to Atlanta even though Atlanta is much closer.

Most residential and commercial broadband connections are limited to a specific bandwidth, however most college connections are set to run at full speed. The available bandwidth is distributed however the college sees fit. Typically non-residential buildings get priority, and your speed will vary depending on what type of network traffic you are generating. P2P things usually are set at the bottom of the priority list, as are things like audio/video chat and IM's. Standard web traffic will almost always have top priority.

The days of filtering and setting bandwidth by port are pretty much over. There are hardware solutions now that can determine exactly what type of traffic is coming through the pipes regardless of what port they are set to. I was in college in the "Napster" days, and all we had to do was set it to run on ports 80 or 1080 and it was all good.

 

[Luigimamo]

Wow, my download speed is more than twice as fast as my WLAN connection says it is (54 Mb/s).

who's your ISP ?

 

[dannyz0r]

Wow, my download speed is more than twice as fast as my WLAN connection says it is (54 Mb/s).

who's your ISP ?

Read everything else in the box.

 

[nokmanoks2]

Darn that's slow

0.51
0.26

 

[ben1996123]

 

[c1829]

Mine was 1.88 for download and 4.36 for upload.

 

[Bob]

 

[Ranzha]

 

[Andreaillest]

I can live with that I guess.

 

[wing92]

does this mean i lose?

EDIT: tested again and did even worse

 

[Dirk BerGuRK]

I especially love my ping. Crazy. I get something ungodly when I am on campus.