whats your internet speed

TheTrueMoron, WIndows tells you how fast the link from the computer to the modem is, not the actual internet connection speed. That is governed by the modem at the other end of the link from your modem, but if your on cable or DSL, yeah, the numbers look a little weak to me. Should be at least twice of what they are in your test.

5kb/s up and 5kb/s down!! Dial Up Arrrrgh

Well i've had 9mbps for a while, but I'm getting sick of the slight lagness and low performance on games so I'm getting either 30 or 50. I also need unlimited or like 100GB download. I eat up download so fast and pay through the nose for overdownloading.

I'm surprised at how many people still use dial-up. I really thought it was a thing of the past. I got cable like 8 years ago. I remember the friday night internet and the annoying noises and the phone fighting.

8.1 mbps down
528 kbps up

New Zealand speed at 10.26pm


will try during the day to see if there is much difference

if I had to use dial-up I would not even bother having internet.

I have dsl. 730 kbps down, 131 up .... it's $14.99 a month for life. I like the price.

just to keep things in perspective here the preferred units of measure internet providers is Kb/s, that is bits per second.

sometimes you see KB/s and this references bytes per second
a typical mp3 file is 3 MB so expressing things in bytes gives you a better idea but the marketing department at your internet provider sees numbers 8x lower.

another thing is there is a huge difference (~10x) between up and download.

some internet providers use a burst mode thus your connection will respond well to short requests, like internet speed tests.

i typically see on my cabl acc:
200KB/s for downloads but could go as high as 490KB/s
45KB/s for uploads, its capped
$50+ per mo

Verizon FiOs 5k Down, 2k Up deal.
MacBook wireless: 4881 down, 1843 up.
WinXP wired: 4951 down, 1850 up

$40/mo eh i guess its good enough. better than $60/mo with earthlink.

768/128

It's $10/month and they gave me $5 off my television service.

9.5mbps in 2.1 out
Verizon fios smokes my old DSL.

Ripped off?

Simbad54 said:

It's supposd to be 30mbs down and 600kbs up, but the last test brought it in at only 9mbs download. I'm being ripped off!

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Well I am paying for 20K download and getting 7727 download from
Fios but I cannot complain as the Verizon tech hooked up to the
modem they gave me is getting 20K.
Now what?

I just know my internet speed is fast .

28MB Down, 2MB up

Download Speed: 15065 kbps (1883.1 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 2042 kbps (255.3 KB/sec transfer rate)

You Guys are lucky, i only get 100kb/s down and 12kb/s up

256kbps down/64kbps up.

3016kbps Down and 512kbps up.