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Broadband Connection Speed Test

ercoerco Posts: 20,260
edited 2011-05-26 08:35 in General Discussion
A Verizon DSL tech showed me his preferred speed test after repairing my line. Go to http://speakeasy.net/speedtest/ and click on the city nearest you. Not sure if it works for a cable connection or not. Please advise if it does!

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  • bsnutbsnut Posts: 521
    edited 2010-12-29 05:39
    I can say it works on my Android phone tether for my laptop and I was downloading at 0.80mbps and uploading at 0.42mbps. I think it will work on a cable connection. Here's way, you are connecting to there website through your internet connectiion and they checking how fast you are downloading and uploading. It is clever marketing on their part and what I want to see how fast is downloading and uploading on Verizon's Fios?
  • kwinnkwinn Posts: 8,697
    edited 2010-12-29 06:32
    Works on my cable connection.
  • Oldbitcollector (Jeff)Oldbitcollector (Jeff) Posts: 8,091
    edited 2010-12-29 07:36
    It's an excellent tool... Always use the server closest to you.

    BTW, for US DSL customers, if you haven't had the phone company review your charges, you are likely missing out on savings that could be applied due to price and package changes. They do NOT review your account (legal reasons) unless you authorize them to do so. I've found that paying my phone bill by phone and having them review my account every three months has led to excellent savings. (Last month I got $20 a month off my current package. (they even credited it backward a month, no contract)

    So yes, check your bandwidth and then find out if you could be getting more for what you are paying now if you haven't done so in a while. :)

    OBC
  • LoopyBytelooseLoopyByteloose Posts: 12,537
    edited 2010-12-29 08:19
    Works from here in Taiwan testing to San Francisco. I am quite surprise that i am getting nearly full subscriber bandwidth all the way to the U.S.A. I've used another similar site that is worldwide and going to Europe has huge slowdown.
  • Phil Pilgrim (PhiPi)Phil Pilgrim (PhiPi) Posts: 23,514
    edited 2010-12-29 10:30
    It works on a cable connection, but I wouldn't put it past my ISP to shape traffic in a way that favors the speed test sites. So I'm not sure how valuable it is...

    -Phil
  • ercoerco Posts: 20,260
    edited 2010-12-29 11:32
    @PhiPi: It's Christmas, my friend! You must learn to trust your fellow man (and ISP) more... :)
  • KaosKiddKaosKidd Posts: 296
    edited 2010-12-29 12:11
    For the T3 connection (Straight T3 connection):
    Site reported 44.98 MBytes down and 44.88 MBytes up, firewall reported 44.9788 MBytes down and 44.87668 MBytes up.
    For the T1 connection (Bridged T1X2 connection):
    Site reported 5.67 MBytes down and 5.01 MBytes up, firewall reported 5.6666 MBytes down and 5.00230 MBytes up.
    For the CC connection (Std Comcast connection):
    Site reported 2.86 MBytes down and 2.67 MBytes up, firewall reported 2.8567 MBytes down and 2.66890 MBytes up.

    If you want, I can test this on high speed fios, but I gather the results will be about as legit as listed here. It's many ways to hell-hacked-hard to spoof DL/UL speed tools not based on your PC; too many ways to verify the results, leading to disbelieve and no web traffic on the site.
  • iDaveiDave Posts: 252
    edited 2010-12-29 13:46
    Thanks Erco, appreciate the info!
  • Possum79Possum79 Posts: 30
    edited 2010-12-31 14:31
    I use this all the time. I used to work for Comcast cable and I used it all the time for testing our modems. I use it on my evo phone too checking out my 4g network. Some places I hit up to 9Mbps dl, and coming from a phone that is sweet. Some sites are different though. Comcast uses what they call powerboost to increase speed when it somehow manipulates smaller files to dl faster where some of those speed test sites will not show powerboost speeds. From my house I usually pull about 20-25 Mbps dl. Also the closest city isn't always the fastest. If I speed test la from the central valley in California I get faster speeds then if I were to test to san Francisco which is closer. it bottlenecks real bad through san Jose where going to la doesn't. sorry for typos I'm using my evo.
  • Bobb FwedBobb Fwed Posts: 1,119
    edited 2011-01-03 09:19
    KaosKidd wrote: »
    For the CC connection (Std Comcast connection):
    Site reported 2.86 MBytes down and 2.67 MBytes up, firewall reported 2.8567 MBytes down and 2.66890 MBytes up.
    I had no idea comcast supplied such fast upload speeds. Is this something special? I used to have comcast, my parents have comcast, and my friend has comcast, none of these connections would get anything more than 400KB upload or so (which is more than 3mb, which I think is pretty good).
  • Beau SchwabeBeau Schwabe Posts: 6,568
    edited 2011-01-03 12:17
    Nice Find!


    Bob,
    We have a Cable modem through COX communications and the site above reports ( 5.88 down / 2.93 up)


    ...Although, I think alot depends on the server you select... 
    Seattle, WA reports (11.72 down / 2.85 up)
San Francisco       (14.86 down / 2.89 up)
LA                  (14.50 down / 2.91 up)
Dallas              ( 5.88 down / 2.93 up)
Chicago             (21.70 down / 2.94 up)
Atlanta             (19.06 down / 2.92 up)
NY                  (12.72 down / 2.91 up)
DC                  (17.14 down / 2.91 up)

    ... I'm closest to Dallas, and it's the slowest as far as download
  • SSteveSSteve Posts: 808
    edited 2011-01-03 12:36
    You can also test at http://www.broadband.gov/qualitytest/. I get basically the same results there as speakeasy.net.
  • Bobb FwedBobb Fwed Posts: 1,119
    edited 2011-01-03 12:48
    Beau Schwabe (Parallax) wrote: »
    Nice Find!


    Bob,
    We have a Cable modem through COX communications and the site above reports ( 5.88 down / 2.93 up)


    ...Although, I think alot depends on the server you select... 
    Seattle, WA reports (11.72 down / 2.85 up)
San Francisco       (14.86 down / 2.89 up)
LA                  (14.50 down / 2.91 up)
Dallas              ( 5.88 down / 2.93 up)
Chicago             (21.70 down / 2.94 up)
Atlanta             (19.06 down / 2.92 up)
NY                  (12.72 down / 2.91 up)
DC                  (17.14 down / 2.91 up)
    ... I'm closest to Dallas, and it's the slowest as far as download
    That's all megabits though, not bytes. I'm surprised at the 2.67MBytes claim. I can understand 2.91mbits (which is what the speed tests all return values at). My guess is there is a mix up in labeling or understanding of these numbers. MB != mb (megabytes != megabits). 2.91mb is an expected number for upload (that's only 364KB).

    By the way, there are other sites like this (as SSteve mentioned). I've used speedtest.net for years, as well as a quality test at pingtest.net. There are even mobile phone app versions of speedtest.
  • Peter KG6LSEPeter KG6LSE Posts: 1,383
    edited 2011-01-03 13:15
    parents house in eugene OR

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    and to think they want to cut costs and use dial up again . // * smack * //
    over my dead body ...


    In Iowa I am getting 10Mb down on a 12 line and 1M Up on a 1.5 Line .

    considering my ENTIRE college only has subscribed to 35 down 5 up .
    I feel Very happy with my fat pipe in my dorm room . no joke all 3K students on a cable line ..

    no wonder I had so many issues with them ..

    11.2Kb per student is useless. ( assumeing everines on at once )
  • WBA ConsultingWBA Consulting Posts: 2,935
    edited 2011-01-04 13:13
    Interesting, my upload speed is faster than my download...... hitting the SF site I get 4.8MB download and 6.8MB upload consistently. Other sites vary, but upload is always a bit higher.

    Not too sure about that speedtest.net site. I get drastically different results each time and variances between browsers:
    Firefox averaged 2.8down and 0.8 up
    IE averaged 2.5 down and 2.9 up
    Seamonkey averaged 2.9 down and 2.7 up (hit 56.91down on one pass?!?!)
  • vasu3vasu3 Posts: 2
    edited 2011-04-05 02:36
    check internet speed test from here http://www.ip-details.com/internet-speed-test/
  • Ray0665Ray0665 Posts: 231
    edited 2011-04-07 11:06
    here are my results for FIOS in NJ, I have
    30.627Mb down
    23.527Mb up
  • HollyMinkowskiHollyMinkowski Posts: 1,398
    edited 2011-04-07 11:34
    Won't work on my encrypted connection from here...a shame..
    Says it needs more Flash power or some such.

    BTW: Does everyone's ip appear beneath the posts or
    is that just a moderator thing? I just now noticed that.
  • ctwardellctwardell Posts: 1,716
    edited 2011-04-07 12:40
    Ray0665 wrote: »
    here are my results for FIOS in NJ, I have
    30.627Mb down
    23.527Mb up

    Nice!
  • HollyMinkowskiHollyMinkowski Posts: 1,398
    edited 2011-04-07 12:46
    With 30.627Mb down I think that you could watch
    more than one 1080p video feed at the same time...awesome!

    If they did not cap your downloads you could certainly
    create quite an archive.
  • $WMc%$WMc% Posts: 1,884
    edited 2011-04-07 18:39
    I forget who said it.
    '
    But theirs a sucker born every minute.
    '
    If you think your INTERNET speed is constant and is always the same speed.
    '
    They suckered you in.
  • HollyMinkowskiHollyMinkowski Posts: 1,398
    edited 2011-04-07 20:42
    $WMc% wrote: »
    I forget who said it.
    '
    But there is a sucker born every minute.

    It had to be a carny :-)
    (or perhaps a lawyer)
  • Ding-BattyDing-Batty Posts: 302
    edited 2011-04-07 21:27
    Try this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There%27s_a_sucker_born_every_minute
  • kwinnkwinn Posts: 8,697
    edited 2011-04-07 21:54
    HollyMinkowski wrote: »
    It had to be a carny :-)
    (or perhaps a lawyer)

    AFAIK it was P. T. Barnum, and you win the prize Holly. He was a circus ringmaster and owner.
  • kwinnkwinn Posts: 8,697
    edited 2011-04-08 18:57
    HollyMinkowski wrote: »
    BTW: Does everyone's ip appear beneath the posts or
    is that just a moderator thing? I just now noticed that.

    Must be just for moderators. Never seen it when I am logged in.
  • SRLMSRLM Posts: 5,045
    edited 2011-04-09 16:50
    Seems I have high speed internet. Yay for college.

    Download Speed: 86235 kbps (10779.4 KB/sec transfer rate)
    Upload Speed: 69448 kbps (8681 KB/sec transfer rate)

    I've noticed that in general, I get capped at 11.4 or 11.7 MB/s download rate when I download many files concurrently.
  • vasu3vasu3 Posts: 2
    edited 2011-05-26 08:35
    my internet speed is
    downloads: 1.09Mbps
    uploads:0.8Mbps
    i checked my speed through this site. http://www.scanmyspeed.com/
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