Internet Speed

[A Nonny Moose 8,261]

The first university I attended was Queen's University at Kingston, Ontario. All the buildings were named. The Internet was a pipe dream called DARPAnet in the late 1950s. I don't remember the names of many of the buildings because they were mostly known by function. At that time most of the buildings were limestone block made from the local bluish limestone and quite pretty. Modern construction and Bauhaus were just starting to rear their ugly head. The one building I know for sure was Ontario Hall (the Physics Building). The only Bauhaus building on campus at that time was the "New Mechanical Engineering Building" that I think was named after a deceased professor of ME. For me, at least, lettering buildings is a bust. When I attended the University of Toronto a few years later, the building I had my classes in was called "New College". It was the first new building on the campus for many years. The big medical research facility was called the Connaught Laboratories, which many may have heard about. Insulin was developed there by Banting and Best. It no longer exists. Recently the old insulin research papers were resurrected and added to the museum in the university which now contains the desks and benches of the old labs as well which were, thank heavens, in storage.

All of the schools that I attended or worked in after 1965 seems to be network aware. When I worked at the University of Waterloo in the late 1970s, the Internet did not exist, but was coming of age. It was still called ARPAnet, but there were other nets, notably NetNorth, and BitNet. I think in the end it all became one Internet, except for MilNet which is the U.S. Military network that I think remains separate. In those days a 10base2 (10MHz) net was the hot item and 10BaseT (telephone lines) were just coming into existence.

My current Internet connection is 100base2 (that is, 100MHz, on cable).

We've come a long way, baby.

[Loney 22]

I have a question, is broadband really broadband when dialup is faster? Youtube videos are constantly loading around 2 kilobits per second lately. Webpages and pictures are fine, though I suspect my ISP is targeting Youtube for bandwidth throttling.

[A Nonny Moose 8,261]

I have a question, is broadband really broadband when dialup is faster? Youtube videos are constantly loading around 2 kilobits per second lately. Webpages and pictures are fine, though I suspect my ISP is targeting Youtube for bandwidth throttling.

There are two ends in any transmission. It may seem your ISP is doing that, but remember the server at the other end is probably very busy. Youtube gets thousands of hits per minute and the slow response could be their servers. Ask your ISP if they are doing that.

I have found that updating my O/S sometimes runs very quickly and at other times is quite slow. When a major update has been released I suspect the servers at the other end (University of Waterloo) are very busy as well. I know that system quite well and it was never the policy when I was there to throttle anything.

[Jack³ 291]

(Bump!)

I recently got an upgrade! Try competing with this speed:

[Ionic-Elm 13]

Bright House I'm getting upset with, mainly due to the fact they refuse to get fiber, resulting in slower than normal speeds like this:

Upload is fine (2mbps), but I should be getting around 20-30mbps download according to the Bright House Networks plan I'm on.

[jdenm8 362]

Yay for asymmetry.

Wow... I'm on the other side of the world and beat your connection for down.

[+Guest Member 193110]

Ok, my turn:

[Jack³ 291]

Ok, my turn:

[Tries not to acknowledge defeat] I expect you are quite happy with your provider.

[+Guest Member 193110]

Ok, my turn:

[Tries not to acknowledge defeat] I expect you are quite happy with your provider.

Pretty much everyone in Lithuania have a similiar internet speed.

[astronelson 339]

OK. What do I win?

That was my first run, later ones had lower upload speeds.

I feel a university connection to a server likely within walking distance is almost cheating, though.

[Duke87 1,070]

What I'm paying $40 a month for is described as "up to 15 Mbps". "Up to" being the key operative words, naturally.

[hym 358]

OK. What do I win?

The admiration/jealousy of everyone that wishes for a connection like yours.

[hummer0328 6]

I can't complain as I get what I pay for: 8 Mb/s down and 0.4 Mb/s up. It doesn't matter the time of day, even at peak hours I get my advertised speed.

  Edited May 20, 2012 by hummer0328  

[Silur 3,297]

I have only 3,1 Mb/s thru phone line ... But there is no problem for me - Internet is a ninth part in my life ...

About 20$ per month without any limits...

  Edited May 22, 2012 by Silur  

[Haljackey 17,242]

Supposed to get up to 28 down 1 up, so it's pretty accurate.

$62 a month.

[+Guest Member 193110]

Supposed to get up to 28 down 1 up, so it's pretty accurate.

$62 a month.

I pay about $12 for this:

[Shadow Assassin 336]

Not too bad, though I wish I had a better connection. It's stable, though, which is what's important.

To LA, pretty good, sub-200ms ping to the US from Australia is considered very good.

To New York...

Seems that I lose about 50ms from travelling from LA to NY (which is the way the cable goes).

[edit] needed to fix first image link

  Edited May 30, 2012 by Shadow Assassin  

[killerlance 2]

Not too bad I don't think although my ping can be ridiculously high sometimes.

I have some friends I play Minecraft with in DC.

And then for a laugh I tested for London too see how crappy my connection is to the UK.

Then I looked and tested on this.

All the tests were done mid afternoon.

  Edited June 9, 2012 by killerlance  

[iuri99 48]

I miss my 10mb internet.

  Edited June 11, 2012 by iuri99  

[Eʟᴇᴍᴇɴᴛ 273]

$45 a month for unlimited bandwidth in Canada, its not bad really. Still faster than 50% of the country.

Canada to Australia

OK. What do I win?

That was my first run, later ones had lower upload speeds.

I feel a university connection to a server likely within walking distance is almost cheating, though.

Well, I just lost.

[Wiecher 192]

I'm happy with it.

But it fluctuates a lot, last week I had only 10 for a few hours, and then it went back up to 30.