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What is your connection speed?

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I was just wondering, what everyone's connection speed is? I just want to know, if my ISP is being too generous or is my connection speed the norm now?

dn: 3143 kbps
up: 350 kbps

Sometimes, I can get up to 3500 kbps. And other people in my area can get up to 4000 kpbs with my ISP.

Use this link, if you want to test your connection speed:
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It's not the NORM, but you can get it a lot of places now. I get 3490 down, 297 up. Others with my ISP get 6000+ dn, 768 up. They're on a higher end plan though. Small business workplace plan.
 
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I use Bandwidthplace.com and Im wireless on a school net so i only get.. 135.3 kilobits per second
 
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Mine said:

4452 down
353 up

But I didn't disable everything in the background. It seems pretty nice though :)
 
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Your download speed : 3475662 bps, or 3394 kbps.
A 424.2 KB/sec transfer rate.
Your upload speed : 2189781 bps, or 2138 kbps.
 
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Wow! How did you get that upload speed?
 
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College network gives a priority connection to comp sci students which happens to be 4 of us
 
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Wow, typo maybe?
 
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trpnmonkey41 said:
College network gives a priority connection to comp sci students which happens to be 4 of us
Click to expand...

I never know an upload speed could be that fast, wow!
 
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i wish i had fiber straight to my house
 
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is that fast?

Im unsure of how to say what it is, so here are the screenshots.
also did not disable or quit other apps.

Picture 1.jpg

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hey, just did the test again, that top number in the second screenshot changed to 4.5.
 
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Most of you must have Cable. Here in Central Calif. with DSL I get 1.2Mbits down and 300 up. The down is pretty typical for California SBC Dsl. My upload is about 2x what most of my friends on DSL get. I am not far from the Central Office.
 
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Macman, that's a pretty good connection.
 
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Your download speed : 3096446 bps, or 3023 kbps.
A 377.9 KB/sec transfer rate.
Your upload speed : 364808 bps, or 356 kbps.

Better than I thought it would be
 
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Your download speed : 5083591 bps, or 4964 kbps.
A 620.5 KB/sec transfer rate.
Your upload speed : 4034969 bps, or 3940 kbps.​


This is mine. I guess I have the fastest connection on these forums :bomb:
 
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Strider said:
Your download speed : 5083591 bps, or 4964 kbps.
A 620.5 KB/sec transfer rate.
Your upload speed : 4034969 bps, or 3940 kbps.​


This is mine. I guess I have the fastest connection on these forums :bomb:
Click to expand...

That's really good. Too bad, there are no websites or anything else that takes advantage of these high download speeds.
 
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I think my down is 4250
up is 363
 

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