http://www.speedtest.net/result/1092478557.png

AT&T is the devil, but my parents pay for it so I can't complain.

http://www.speedtest.net/result/1092416840.png

It's a shame it doesn't actually download anything that fast.

http://www.speedtest.net/result/1092420856.png As you can see it is slow, and expensive (about 25$ a month)

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I'm at my parents' place just now. It'll be interesting to get back to my flat in a couple of days and compare the speed there, where I pay ~￡18/month (BE Unlimited) and am literally buildings away from the telephone exchange. The speeds I get there are certainly better than what I was getting with Virgin Media's pathetic excuse for a cable service last year.

http://www.speedtest.net/

As I recall, Speedtest's default setting is to use megabits instead of mebibytes (megabytes). As such, unless you changed your setting on speedtest to megabytes, the speed it reports will seem 8 times higher than your actual speed (as it takes 8 megabits to equal one megabyte)

5.10 megs a sec.

And it is constantly going down, I hate AT&T.

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You guys don't know what bad is. Last time I checked, I was getting about 15 kb/s out of my cell-phone-modem in my low-service area.

That fluctuates, and may not be entirely accurate, but that's how fast a torrent was going last time I tried it.

Here's my SpeedTest result.

http://www.speedtest.net

http://www.speedtest.net/result/1092481830.png
it svcks

I have dial-up, simply because it is the only thing I can get at this point in this location. I'm running at about 31.2 kb/s at the most, on a bad day its about 21kb/s.

Fiber Optic, however my speed caps at 7.9 MB/s

It HAS gone higher, but very, VERY rarely does it.

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Besides provider and type of wire, what else effects speed? Browser, cpu, ram, malware, local congestion, external wireless devices?



Just had to...

Your computer shouldn't have any bearing on the network speed at all.

Your overall speed is influenced by a huge number of things, firstly the ISP sets a limit on your areas speeds based on the type of connection, and assigns a contention ratio based on number of users vs amount of bandwidth, then your specific plan might have a lower speed.
That stuff isn't too important though, what makes a bigger difference are things like distance between you and the cabinet/exchange, number of users on that exchange, and the weather.

If you have a look at your router there should be a section called "Line Statistics" or something similar (for an ADSL modem anyway), that'll tell you the quality of your connection.

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I don't know if you threw that in there just for the heck of it, but our internet used to [censored] out when it rained. Thankfully it stopped when...I dunno when. But it did.

I tried to use that speedtest thing, but when it told me I was in a city five hours away and I couldn't immediately see how to change that, I gave up. My download speed on Steam is all I'm truly worried about, and it's...well...slow.

I'm very jealous of some of the speeds on here, even if they are misleading.

Here ya go

Although it's using wireless, which is somewhat iffy in my room. With the cable I should get slightly higher speeds.

I get about 6 mb/s for download, and 2.5 mb/s for upload.

Excusing the fixed number your ISP gives you (this is assuming they maintain conditions allowing you to receive that number by properly adding nodes and putting down fiber as the number of users goes up in your area), the following conditions will effect your download speed:

- distance from destination

- the amount of switches you make to get there (not really a big deal, but does slow down transfers somewhat)

- maximum upload speed the server has

- number of users simultaneously connected to said server (if there are 5k other people trying to download the file, and they have a 100 Gbit line, the maximum possible speed to you is 2.56 MB/s assuming QoS is in place)

- Any Quality of Service or other artificial limitations on speed put in place (for example: priority is often given to paying members for downloads, so x% is allocated just for them to guarantee their speeds)

Things that effect your (individually) internet speed:

- Any other users online in the same house

- Any background processes that use the Internet running (includes malware)

- Any QoS on your local router

Those last three only effect your individual computer's speed, not your house's speed overall.

http://www.speedtest.net/result/1092592482.png

im downloading QTP3 and Crysis right now, otherwise i'd just post a speedtest lol. Usually I get around 6mbps down, and anywhere from 3 to 5mbps up. ping is about 40. But however, when I'm actually downloading stuff i've rarely seen it go above 200kB/s. Highest i've seen in a download was about 600kB/s. It's some form of wireless radio internet, but surprisingly very reliable. I mean the speed bounces around sometimes (low was about 2mbps down, high has been 10.) but it Never cuts out.

http://www.speedtest.net/result/1092616772.png Thats with the downloads running btw.