cable internet download speeds

[mark]

Tried the Speakeasy site, not sure why it would be more accurate with smaller files but get downloads of 461KB/sec through Seattle and 258KB/sec with Chicago.

Still way off from the 5MB but guess comparable to others.

[Chaloupa]

I use cable net on the island...and my speeds lately are absolutely AWFUL! Sorry to say but at least this shows me, it's not just me! It makes online gaming very painful at times.

[Doug]

I,m with the local Westman cable and with Speakeasy, {Seattle}, mine shows 5753 up and 928 down. However when loading sites like Fox & CNN news and others such as TSN, my computer is sooooo slow, its terrible. And I thought I had a decently fast set up.

[Jason McK]

In Delta BC there is a small independant cable company DCCNET is my provider. I love the speed
from Shaw test site 583KBS
from Speakeasy 4785KBS

J

[Swags]

Regardless of who your provider is, your network speed is always dependent on the slowest server (and your connection of course), thats why some sites load fast and others don't, load balancing, server speeds, and general network health are huge factors. I have read reports that SPAM takes up 40% of all network traffic at any given point and time, that means no spam, faster internet for all of us. The internet is a highway, when I am travelling to Calgary, the Trans canada has speeds of 100 km/h, when I hit any city, it slows down because of traffic lights, more cars, construction etc... network is no different. Having a 5 MB pipe allows you to get that, but you will always be limited to the slowest server between you and what you want.... the weakest link so to speak. Another cool stat about the 'network', 85% of all installed fibre optic cabling is not lit!

[om6acw]

I am in Edmonton, AB using High-Speed Xtreme Internet and my test result is 18.3Mbps down and 1Mbps up, so download is almost 8.5 higher because they guaranty you just Up to 10 Mbps download speed

[wolf_bluejay]

>Regardless of who your provider is, your network speed is always dependent on the >slowest server (and your connection of course), thats why some sites load fast and >others don't, load balancing, server speeds, and general network health are huge >factors.

Usually, it's one of 3 things that is at fault - 1. The server you are connecting to is under heavy load, 2. You're network connection sucks, 3. You computer is very slow, or loaded down with anti-virus scanners. Try turning them off, and turn of Internet explorers "anti-phising filter".

I have read reports that SPAM takes up 40% of all network traffic at any given point and time, that means no spam, faster internet for all of us.
Umm, trust me, NO! spam only accounts for less than 0.5% of network traffic. It is 90% of the actual email traffic, but all things considered, email is not much of the load on the internet.

>The internet is a highway, when I am travelling to Calgary, the Trans canada has speeds >of 100 km/h, when I hit any city, it slows down because of traffic lights, more cars, >construction etc... network is no different. Having a 5 MB pipe allows you to get that, >but you will always be limited to the slowest server between you and what you want.... >the weakest link so to speak.

Nicely put, it seems that speekeasy can't do better than this:

Download Speed: 23726 kbps (2965.8 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 10134 kbps (1266.8 KB/sec transfer rate)

They limit the speed test to near this at their end (I am straight on the backbone with 1Gb network speeds) . So you won't really be able to "test" much higher than that.


>Another cool stat about the 'network', 85% of all installed fibre optic cabling is not lit!


Sad, but true. Years ago I worked on installing a few cross country fibre lines. 164 fibers per line and I think about 5 are acutally in use.

[Zoaelite]

Thanks for the post wolf, learned something non fish related on Canreef today!
Levi

[jpdutton]

mine was 9620 down and 981 up.