Internet speed
 

Just today saw that my ISP is rolling out unmetered Gigabit fiber connections now, will cost around $140 a month :hail: (100 mbit up :))

This also means they have lovered the price of unmetered 100/100 to a low $70 a month, AWSOME! :jump::headbang:

damn swedish pirates :p ;)


/edit, keep typing out a message but the forum keeps deleting data after GBP sign!! pffft

Yep have the same problem with swedish chars, well actually pretty much every char besides the very basic :(

And I'm pretty sure the piracy does have something to do with it ;) But shhhhh! :p

Was supprised to see the router I'm using is still for sale, it's more then 7 years old! :)

It's the Linksys (CISCO) WRT54GL, old but reliable like no other! ;)

Just restarted mine because of some setting changes, but besides that it's been running for several years without a single reboot :D

Thats something that in my expereince a Netgear and D-Link only manage a week if you're lucky, then you'll have to restart it or even reset it!

I have 10/10, little supprised about upload speed on this test :D

http://speedtest.net/result/1769013644.png

EDIT Slightly better! :D

http://speedtest.net/result/1769038009.png

Hehe! And here we think 30 Megs is good.

A lot of companies here run off of T1's or 12meg DSL still.

Here is my test from this evening. I pay about $89/mo for this from Comcast. It's pretty quick..

http://www.phphq.net/junk/img/speedtest10.png

Holy crap batman!

Must make that cold weather up there worth it. ;)

http://www.speedtest.net/result/1773133660.png

We should have 30 megs up also... grrr.

What plan are you on Scott?

Yeah Ath, my coworkers buddy is on the 1 Gb/s plan and he tested it at 999 mbit down and 100 up. Would be seriously sweet to have that plan but it's a bit steep in price heh

I honestly don't know.. they keep bumping up the speed. It's supposed to be 25/10mb or something. I've never really found anythingthat can utilize all the speed anyways so it really does not matter to me. I was fine with 10/5mb when I had that.

The thing is you're not going to see much performance boost on most downloads. Unless the server you are downloading from is on like a Tier 1 ISP or has some awesome way of load balancing, you pretty much max out at 2.x MB/s.

It would matter more if you are hosting some sort of server that needs the upload throughput or you are a client consuming a ridiculous amount of bandwidth from different servers at a time.

I don't personally notice a difference from 15 at home to 30 at work.

That's what I'm saying.. I've never really downloaded from a server fast enough to use even 1/2 of my connection speed. I've used a good portion of my upload when it was at 10m but 25m is a lot to use. I host a server which is pretty active during the day, play xbox and download programs etc all while the wife streams netflix almost all day. We never have connection issues... I didn't even notice that they upgraded until I ran that last test :naughty2:

I don't plan on upgrading anytime soon.. In fact if I could pay less i'd probably downgrade. :huh:

I did utilize the 100 download speed when i used i so i would see a reason to upgrade again :-)

Pirate :)

You guys must be on fiber optics .. my Comcast speeds can't even touch that ...

My download is 21.77 MBPS, upload is 3.76 Mbps & my ping is 20 ms.

Lol, and I thought my connection was fast.

Wonder what Comcast limits you to for monthly bandwidth usage. Would be interesting to see.

I bet you are near to your ISP's trunk.

I hear it's 250gb for residential users.. Not sure about business class but I know i've used well over 250gb for more than a few months in a row.

You are right ...

Residential users have a a 250gb limit per month.

"If you exceed 250 GB again within six months of the first contact ( about your comcast usage ), your service will be subject to termination and you will not be eligible for either residential or commercial Internet service for twelve months."

http://customer.comcast.com/help-and...et/data-usage/

pirate? no but a linux junky, most distros are avalible throug torrents, as are many demos for games and so on. torrents is a great delivery system for legal software aswell :)

Yeah. Just got done studying the performance difference. Kind of cool how a torrent P2P system works.

Isn't that pirate something website hosted from Sweeden though?