Remember BillyBoy, people are more likely to answer your question if they think they have a fast speed,,,
statistics 101or is it philosophy101, or marketing 101

anyway I'm sure you get the point

1.3MB - DSL

I'm daydreaming now. I remember my Compuserve account and my brand new 300 baud modem. How slow is that? Well, if you were reading this forum then you would litterally see one line at a time appear on your screen at a speed you could just about finish reading a line before the next one showed up. Those were the dark ages.

I started the download test this morning... I'll let you know how fast it is once it's done. ;-)

Mario

I ran the seed test from bandwithplace referenced in an earlier post and my dial up registered a dismal 23.7 kbs. That why I use my T-1 at work to down load large applications like a Vegas upgrade or overnight on the dial-up.

Communications 23.7 Kilobits/sec
Storage 2.9 kilobytes/sec
1 meg file downloaded in 5.9 minutes
Subjective rating Very Slow

Just to prove risce1 wrong... :-)

Communications 123.8 kilobits per second
Storage 15.1 kilobytes per second
1MB file download 1.1 minutes
Subjective rating Mediocre

Mario

Adelphia Cable - 2.8 Mbs

Comcast Cable ranges from 2.5 to 3.7 megabits per second. Most of the time it hovers around 3.

Communications 3.7 megabits per second
Storage 453.5 kilobytes per second
1MB file download 2.3 seconds
Subjective rating Awesome

PPPoE flavored DSL.

Nominally 960/128, but really 800/104-ish.

According to: www.toast.net/performance.

I get -> 4,946 kb download speed.

Comcast cable;

1.6 ms Communications
196.2 kb Storage
5.2 seconds download
great Rating


Test 2
from Dallas Tx to Dallas Tx
3091 kbs
form UK 2314 kbs (seens incorrect)
John

SBC aDSL w/ a 1.5 max
I get 1.2 average

Oh what one phone call to the cable company can do... :-)

Communications 4 megabits per second
Storage 491.1 kilobytes per second
1MB file download 2.1 seconds
Subjective rating Awesome

Mario

In Europe you have to pay for local phone calls, so broadband is the way to go. Competition between providers is amazing in the Netherlands.
8 Mbps down
1 Mbps up
Adsl
Sorry about that:-)

Using the test site link from John, I got 276.6 kb/sec "Mediocre", it said.

I'll ask my ADSL provider about this - my service is meant to be 512 kb/sec.

BUT, when I actually download something, it usually comes in around 50 kb/sec.

Is this unusual, or do you guys actually get hundreds of k/bits a second?

Or ... am I getting mixed up between bits and bytes ?!!?

To give you an idea Peter, I downloaded updates at about 375kb/sec.

Mario

Just upgraded to SBCs $39.95/month 3mbps service. Getting consistent 2.5 mbps download/320 kbps upload.

First modem I purchased back in '80 something ran at 110 bits per second. A year later I upgraded to the blazing speed of 300 bps, which, the experts said, was the fastest you would ever be able to send data over a standard phone line.

Travis
www.announcing.biz

Peter, check the download speed carefully. Sometimes it's displayed as KB/sec instead of Kb/sec. Capital B is bytes, and since there are usually 10 or 11 bits per byte in serial transmission, 50KB/sec is about 525Kb/sec.

If you want to see "true" download speed you can download many little applications that monitor in real time. I used something called DU Meter.

You can set it to show downloads in real time, set a stop watch so you know what kind of download speeds you're getting per minute, etc.. This is far more accurate than the bunch of so-called test web sites that claim to report your download speed.

ISP's in general being a sneaky bunch report their speed several diffent ways. If you see the word BITS that's the number of bits in a byte with a byte roughly being what it takes to represent a single character of text for example. There are 8 bits in a byte.

So if someone says they are averging 1,700 Mbps that means they are getting 1/8th of that or 13,600 bytes a second which works out to about 13K a second because a kilobyte is 1,024 bytes.

You can visit sites like

http://www.dslreports.com/

To get a rough idea what you speed is and compare to others.

I'm using Sprint's high-speed DSL in Pennsylvania. It's rated at 3 megabits, but I usually get closer to 4. Upload speed is ok at 512. Overall, it rocks, especially for large files.

Sprint's customer service reps tell me that well over half their customers are on broadband connections.

Just moved into my old apartment again so right now I'm on dial-up:
Communications 38.1 kilobits per second
Storage 4.7 kilobytes per second
1MB file download 3.7 minutes
Subjective rating Slow

In a few months I might decide for a broadband service which get's faster the closer you live to a telestation. And I do live really close to one. This could give me up to 26 Mbit both up and down. Droooool.

Best/Tommy

To comment on your website: Make every filesize as small as possible! This mantra can not be repeated too often. Every webdesigner/programmer I've ever met says this is the most important issue. It's easy to forget that most connected people in the world are still on dial-up. And if it does not load quickly enough we just surf to the next site.

Also skip any intro page/flash animation/eyecatcher. Go right ahead to the main page and make that one impressive instead. The recent gossip says: Generally, people think a site looks more professional and trustworthy if there are banner "ads" on it. They don't click them but it adds to the perception. Make some banners that look good and link them to other areas of the site like your special promotions, services and packages.
Best/Tommy