Must go faster…

Posted on December 7, 2007 by Erik

I was doing some homework tonight and the graphics were loading a tad on the slow side so I decided to test my bandwidth to see how fast my internet connection was. I’ll preface the graphic by saying that I pay for 6Mb/s down and 512kb/s up, but Comcast (I have a cable modem) has a feature called SpeedBoost that kicks your connection into overdrive for the first 20 seconds or so for fast downloads and uploads. Here were my results from speedtest.net :

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For you non-geeks out there, that’s 21Mb/s down and 1500kb/s up. 3.5x faster down and 3x faster up than what I pay for. Like I said, these speeds are ony sustained for the first 20-30 seconds, but still. 21Mb/s is DANG fast!

From what I understand, Comcast is going to open the floodgates on bandwidth next year to close to 100Mb/s to compete with Verison’s fiber internet. I can’t wait!

What kinds of speeds are you getting from your ISP?  Run the test and comment with who your ISP is and what kind of connection (cable, dsl, dialup -ugh!, AOL -double ugh!) you have.

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11 Responses to “Must go faster…”

  1. Kelly, on December 8th, 2007 at 5:46 am Said:

    Erik, its 5:30 am on a Saturday morning. I just woke up Adam because I did not know what ISP meant (I’m a major non-geek!) - don’t worry though, he fell right back asleep!

    Okay, so here are my results:

    download = 2442 kb/s
    upload = 430 kb/s

    My ISP (internet service provider, in case anyone else doesn’t know :) ) is AT&T.

    We have DSL

    So, how did I do?

  2. Erik, on December 8th, 2007 at 7:04 am Said:

    For DSL, that’s pretty good. I’m sure Adam appreciated the wake up!

  3. lor, on December 9th, 2007 at 3:49 pm Said:

    your lips are moving, but I can’t hear what you’re saying…

  4. Erik, on December 9th, 2007 at 7:48 pm Said:

    Sorry for the geek-speak lor… :)

  5. lor, on December 9th, 2007 at 9:32 pm Said:

    Erik, my dear, no need for sorrow - it is your blog, after all… :) back at ya

  6. Erik, on December 10th, 2007 at 7:40 am Said:

    In that case -

    The RAM on the motherboard is PC4200 ECC DDR2 and has a clock rate of 500Mhz. And I really hate when the SATA HDD gets drive head read errors. ;)

  7. Kelly, on December 10th, 2007 at 9:27 am Said:

    is it same to assume that if I put together a bunch of random letters & numbers, I’ll sound like a cool “geekster?” ;)

  8. Erik, on December 10th, 2007 at 6:47 pm Said:

    @ Kelly

    Type out some random stuff and I’ll let you know what it means (if anything)…

  9. Kelly, on December 11th, 2007 at 8:34 am Said:

    STU STIM PAO 4600 series

  10. Erik, on December 11th, 2007 at 12:49 pm Said:

    Shuttle Terminal Unit
    Synchronous Timing Iso Module
    Packet Asynchronous Offset
    4600 Series

    Not bad…

    Ok - I lied. All that means nothing.

  11. Kelly, on December 13th, 2007 at 8:48 am Said:

    coulda fooled me!

    I can see it now…standing in Best Buy asking about the Shuttle Terminal Unit 4600 series!

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