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Post your SpeedTest!
ChrisMiller
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Just closed on a house in East Lake, Michigan on Tuesday and after having to deal with living in the middle of no-where my entire life and having to survive off from tethering into a cellphone for an "HighSpeed" connection this is so freaking awesome I am at a loss for words... 
What is your Speed?
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My internet is just soo beast.
Damn Upload/Download ratio...
I take it you didn't like the rural living eh? That's where I want to setup shop eventually, but internet speeds are a concern, i've researched my option, and satelite pretty much the best which sucks because you can't really game with it as upload are horrible. Shame t1 still so pricey.
My Inet speed about fast as Daniels right now, but it's because of Wifi, on computer hooked up directly gets to about 10 Mb/s I think down.
I'm hooked up to 450Mbits Wi-Fi, but my internet is still terrible.
Good enough.
Good enough for me :P.
EDIT: Stupid syntax >_>
Home Internet:
And from my Mobile Phone tethered:
Not too bad I think?
Please use
@Daniel: I just realised we're allowed to use HTML tags.. :O
Only a few, the built in editor is broke so there is no other choice.
:P
is that dialup? :L
:P <- this for you.. i know you'll asking me about that hahahaha
Yeah, Internet speeds in Spain sucks. Anyway, I don't really need more than this 95% of the time.
Local Speedtest server in our DC:
To other Provider:
And someone tell me how i get images to show, this is annoying -_-
@William < img src="img.png"/ > as @Daniel mentioned.
P.S: Don't worry, I struggled with it at first as well..then realised had to use HTML tags. :P
This thread is depressing ! -.-
The issue with satellite and gaming isn't the upload (which is typically fine), but that it uses very large packet size.
Seriously? O_o T1 is just 1,5Mbit... given how many residential connections offer much higher transfer (both ways), I'm surprised at how many places still use it.
Actually the biggest factor is the distance. The sattelites are ~35,000 km above the earth's surface, which means a distance of 70,000km one-way. (or 140,000km for a round-trip). So the theoretical minimum rtt time is 140,000/300,000=460ms
Ample for 99% of what I do. And I have no desire to trade rural lifestyle for bandwidth
Mum's iPhone (Vodafone) - crap signal at home
My phone (teathered to my tablet) (3 Mobile) - good signal, just either bluetooth or my old phone limits the speed
My home connection (Virgin Media) - usually have better ping but meh, and we're going to get our connection upgraded "free" (they're raising the prices ofc) to 100Mbit/10Mbit in Dec 2012, they've dug the cables but they haven't prepared our cabinet.
Sat has mainly "overselling" problems - A dedicated Mbit Astra BW (LEO) runs at around 250EUR, while GEO runs for around 500EUR / Mbit...
Aren't LEOs only for satellite phones(+their increidble expensive dial-up internet)? I can imagine it would be kinda annoying to always have to re-direction the satellite dish :P
Three have the best 3G speeds, I've got 18Mbps over 3G before.
The sad part is, thats dozens times better then my DSL connection.