View Poll Results: How do you connect?
Cable
115
63.54%
DSL
32
17.68%
Dedicated connection, hi (T1, WAN, etc.)
4
2.21%
Dedicated connection, lo (sw56, termserver, etc)
1
0.55%
Wireless, mobile
5
2.76%
Wireless, fixed (antenna on your roof, not WiFi)
1
0.55%
Fiber to home
18
9.94%
DirecPC or other satellite
4
2.21%
Dialup
0
0%
Other (specify)
1
0.55%
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Interesting to go back and look at the grades versus speeds. Is it somehow time dependent, making direct comparisons less useful? For example, on Speedtest.net, this morning was:
4.14 Mb/s download
27.88 Mb/s upload
29 ms ping
Which they gave a B grade to. I see some from early in the thread (didn't realize it was 5 years old) that were faster but graded lower.
4.14 Mb/s download
27.88 Mb/s upload
29 ms ping
Which they gave a B grade to. I see some from early in the thread (didn't realize it was 5 years old) that were faster but graded lower.
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WOOT! Got a new modem after something like 10 years. The one I had one very early, right after cable internet hit the markets. Charter out of the blue said you need an updated modem or we are shutting off your service Thursday, which is kind of shitty since we had no advanced warning. Drove to the local office and picked up a new modem, and now things seem to be much better. Old speed was around 15-18Mb/s, pretty stable, but had some connectivity dropping issues. The new modem allows me to take advantage of my grandfathered "Speed Boost" thing, which normally only comes with the higher end packages. My DL starts at around 35Mb/s for the first 3 or 4 seconds, then drops to around 19Mb/s. So about the same as old, but that speed boost makes downloading smaller files much snappier. Larger, sustained downloads are about the same. Upload is about triple what it used to be. It was stable at 1.07Mb/s. Also just noticed dat ping. HNNNGGG. Used to be double that for the same server.
Just retested for a third time to be sure, and everything else is consistent, but this time the speed boost hit 42Mb/s for those 3 or 4 seconds, before slowly tapering off and settling at 18-19Mb/s.
Just retested for a third time to be sure, and everything else is consistent, but this time the speed boost hit 42Mb/s for those 3 or 4 seconds, before slowly tapering off and settling at 18-19Mb/s.
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