At the new address we have been downgraded to http://www.speedtest.net/result/1094039850.png till we hit the waiting list top slot.

Mine is about 15Mbs^-1 down. I could have got 50Mbs^-1 but couldn't be bothered forking out ￡70 for it.

http://www.speedtest.net/result/1094409696.png

I get 32mb/s down, and 2mb/s up over wifi. It is a bit faster on a wired connection Not too bad, but it costs about $80 a month, which is steep in my opinion, but at least I don't have to pay for it. (My parents do, I'm not stealing it)

One is mibibytes apparently. They officially changed it so a a kilobyte was 1,000 bytes, and a kibibyte 1024.

How's insanely fast? (But you knew that.)

Must be sweet downloading large files.

Here's mine from that SpeedTest website

http://www.speedtest.net/result/1094600567.png

Download: 2.27 Mb/s
Upload: 0.87 Mb/2
Ping: 185ms

I'm not particularly tech-savvy, but looking at some of the other links, it appears my connection is really, really bad. For clarity, I'm on a PC that uses a wireless network which receives WiFi from all the way in my living room, and Clearwire isn't exactly a top-shelf ISP either.

EDIT: I saw http://www.gamesas.com/index.php?/topic/1154478-lets-compare-internet-speeds/page__view__findpost__p__16898641 and now I feel less self-conscious about my horrible internets.

Neither of those is mebibytes. Mebibytes are abbreviated MiB

That's been official for some time (2005). Windows still uses the wrong abbreviation. http://support.apple.com/kb/TS2419 (though chose the more confusing way by going base-10 definitions), and a lot of Linux distros are going the more conventional IEC base-2 standard of using <>bibytes (though some others are going the other way *cough* Canonical *cough*)

going <>bibytes is logical and really simple. Just sqeeze an "i" between the first letter and the "B" for all file sizes and it is accurate again without causing confusion on the end-user.

It's kinda sad how long it has taken the Operating System to correct something so simple

It's good enough for my purposes.

http://www.speedtest.net/result/1094635888.png
http://www.speedtest.net/result/1094637206.png

Edit: Despite the DL/UPL speeds varying, the ping stays pretty consistently low. It's like the one good thing about the ISP

GiB and MiB are the Devil's work. Devil's I say!

Now whenever I see GB or MB I have no clue what's going on. Are they getting it right and using 1 GB = 1000 MB or are they doing it wrong and actually mean 1 GiB? GARGHBALARGLRSGlE. Evil.

Rofl, I had a feeling you were linking to my results ^^. As I said earlier in the thread, I'm pretty sure I win the award for slowest internet! Keep in mind, that was also done late at night, which would likely equal my fastest times. I'll do the test again later, see if I get worse ^^

My thoughts exactly.

It's simple:

GB on something related to Apple/hard drives -- base-10

GB in all other instances -- base-2

GiB -- Always base-2

I'd share my speed but it's sad...

3.84 d/l
.49 u/l
16ms ping

A random but slightly on topic question about internet downloading.

I bought Oblivion on Steam the other day, then noticed that I need to download 5,600 odd MB. My internet plan is onlty 5 gig, and my whole family uses it so I'm not allowed to hog the lot. Can someone please explain to me, if I download the whole game, will it use up all 5 gig of my internet plan? I don't know if downloading one MB of data uses one MB of internet or not. I'm dying to play Oblivion, but I'll probably lose internet rights if I use it all up early a second month in a row XD

Laugh at my ignorance all you want, I have to learn somehow :unsure:

You'd be using over 5 gig.

1024 MB = 1 GB

Aw crap >__<
Now I have to find someone else kind enough to donate their internet. Sigh.

Thanks for the answer

rocking the steady 500kbps download and about a 1 kb upload

Is that 5GB download speed, or 5GB down loadable content? I get 15GB download speed, but 125GB down loadable content.

Link me to your plan and I'll look for you if you like.

Well, apparently I never got 25MB download speed. Though I swear I did when I first got this plan. (I must be losing my mind.)

I reran the test just now and low and behold....http://www.speedtest.net/result/1095498603.png vs the last 15MB test.

:shrug:

Well, I went and re-did my test results, just now so I could see if it slows down during prime-time hours, and lo n behold, I was right. My ping got even slower, my upload speed got slower, download speed I think stayed the same, but it likely got a bit slower, just didn't get out of the .02 area.

http://www.speedtest.net/result/1095743654.png

I think it's time you changed plans O__O I could not survive on those speeds!



http://www.telecom.co.nz/content/0,6845,206399-204546,00.html
I don't know how useful all that is. I'm pretty sure it's just download speed, cause we go onto dial up once that 5 gig os gone at no extra charge, but thing is, our dial-up is so slow that if we go onto dial-up speeds at this time of rhe month, I'll basically get disconnected from our internet. Mum had a fit at me last night when she found I'd already gone through half :whistling:
Can't wait to get back to my flat, we're looking at getting an unlimited internet plan.

http://www.speedtest.net/result/1102778096.png. Quite the improvement. It was even faster the last time I checked, it's probably quite a busy time right now.

Since we have little other (reasonable) option where we live/what we need, we use Comcast Business, otherwise known as CrapCast in many circles, and it goes up and down. Most of the time download probably about 30Mb/s, but it can drop as low as 3Mb/s (overseas servers) or jump as high as 70 (a server 50miles away)...it all depends on the server you're trying to connect to:distance and other tech considerations. I can't remember what the highest possible advertised speed is supposed to be for us

Upload speed is a comparative snails pace at around 6-5Mb/s

Edit: the reason for Comcast Business is needing multiple static IP addresses. But a side effect is that it doesn't fall under the 250 download cap when they started implementing that.

http://www.speedtest.net/result/1102963928.png I can stream videos most of the time without having to buffer or load. And I never experience lag while playing X-box Live :shrug:
Once I get a job I'm definitely upgrading though.