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ns13jarhead

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I just had a service call on my internet because I couldn't connect. I've got Comcast Cable, Internet and Phone. The house is hardwired for internet. When he got here, the Comcast guy completely removed the 7 year old cable internet modem and connected my generic $30 four-port router directly to the 6 month old cable phone modem via CAT5 cable.

Can this be right?

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These numbers are telling me that my D/L is about five times faster than what it was before and my U/L is almost ten times faster. But I don't see an appreciable difference when I'm on the web. What gives?
 
sorry, can' answer your question,,,,but I would kill for those numbers...
 
Throughput is not "response" time. i.e. you ask a website for a page, the request goes via various servers, the webserver ponders, then sends it.
Exactly the same time if you have 20MB or 1MB.

You would see a difference though if the page has 300 x 1MB Jpegs on it, your page would now download much quicker with 20MB ;)

So in other words, if you do a "ping" test it will likely be quite similar in response times,
but if you download a big file your new speed will download it 5X faster.
 
The worlds fastest Internet download speed can only download as fast as someone elses upload speed.

Using speedtest.net I get the same numbers for my connection that I do with the link below.

Run the test again from this link

http://www.speakeasy.net/speedtest/

Choose the closest server to you.

Post the test results. I find your numbers strange they seem way too high.

Remember that these test will only give you a look at what your connection is capable of doing. You may not see much of a difference on the net because you still have to live with the upload speeds from other servers.

One other thing to note. At my last apartment I had a 3000 kbps DSL down load speed. In my modem properties I could see its internal test would show a 8000 kbps download speed. I could never achieve that speed. That number came from the first device I was connected to on my ISP. That was the transmission speed from me to DSL equipment which can not reflect the speed over the internet. It is good to test from your equipment to the first device but ultimatly you need to test over the Internet to get an idea of how fast you can transmitt/receive.

Prehaps the device you are testing to is the first one you are connected to. Then you should see higher numbers.
 
Hello ns13jarhead,

what Polovski said - your machine, or better connection is much faster than the server's response.

There are some people wondering why e.g. my PC and connection of 1000 builds up as fast as their's with their 16.000 connection - it does not help you if the servers are slow.

And additionally a website from the year say 2000 would now load in a split second, however with the internet traffic of today, and especially all this advertisement crap that has to build up on your screen until you finally get what you really want, blocks the speed even more.

Up to the year 2000 most websites were "handmade", came from the military and scientific sectors, and were fast. After all this has since been commercialised in a way most websites simply s*ck.

There even is a plain text browser in Linux, where you only see text of the websites on your screen - this thing is so fast it even loads before you type anything in lol.
I am so far i will not buy anything that is advertised on the net, blocks my view or disturbs me getting to my information in any way.
Do you all hear me ??!! :wave:

Greetings from Germany,
Catfish
 
Dangerousdave26 said:
The worlds fastest Internet download speed can only download as fast as someone elses upload speed.

Using speedtest.net I get the same numbers for my connection that I do with the link below.

Run the test again from this link

http://www.speakeasy.net/speedtest/

Choose the closest server to you.

Post the test results. I find your numbers strange they seem way too high.
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Dave,

Here's what I got. Still pretty high.
Last Result:
Download Speed: 17452 kbps (2181.5 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 7488 kbps (936 KB/sec transfer rate)
However, the numbers in parentheses are closer to what I used to get (5 mbps down, 700 kbps up)
 
That's because the numbers in parenthesis are KiloBytes.....not Kilobits. Big difference between the two.

If that's the actual connection speeds you're getting, they're downright insane!! Count yourself lucky. A meagre 10meg down-1meg up here.
 
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