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Patrick

So you think you're fast?

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God damn you, Comcast. Look at my earlier test results the previous page and you'll see why I'm pissed. They put an artificial bottleneck on my speed after like 4 days of heavy downloads. Hasn't gone up yet and it probably never will. The worst part is that they're untouchable. I can't complain, and they won't give a shit if I do.

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I had hoped to be on optical fibre by now, but once again NBN Co are unable to stick to their roll-out timetable. Maybe in March/April.

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Earlier my internet was so slow that I couldn't actually load the website. I'd guess, using Windows Task Manager, that 0.4mbps was the speed.

It's improved for now

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Using my ZTE blade as a WiFi access spot after my neighbor figured out that he should secure his...



EDGE 2.5G connection, biatches. Better than nothing, I guess, and with some management, 5 Eur/GB is not all that bad (can add more as I go, and take advantage of special offers when applicable). I surf freely among normal sites, don't fear download of a few tenths MBs, and can even watch the occarional youtube video (though I prefer caching them on-disk and avoiding needless reloads).

A traffic metering app like NetMeter is a must in these cases. Good thing I have my job for the really heavy downloads...

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In theory I could get better speeds if I had a 3G-enabled SIM....but now I'm limited by EDGE/GPRS speeds.

EDGE can carry a bandwidth up to 236 kbit/s (with end-to-end latency of less than 150 ms) for 4 timeslots (theoretical maximum is 473.6 kbit/s for 8 timeslots) in packet mode.


So that means I'm quite close to the theoretical maximum achievable with EDGE. Assuming one gets 4 timeslots, it's quite OK and definitively superior to play GPRS or even land-based dial-up.

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So you think you're fast?

hahaha

Download speed: 0.65mbps
Upload speed: 0.32mbps

This is a good night for me, it's usually half that.

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Maes said:

Using my ZTE blade as a WiFi access spot after my neighbor figured out that he should secure his...



Stop beating my record Maes!



There, back to the 80's. Now stay away! >:(

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DoomUK said:

GG, TalkTalk.


It's actually my neighbour's internet because our own one spends most of its time on 0. Ah this place sucks :P

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I used a server in Papua New Guinea. :)

I tried Mauritius (further away) and Zimbabwe, but they were faster.

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Eris Falling said:

Stop beating my record Maes!



There, back to the 80's. Now stay away! >:(


Actually, you have way too good ping to be truly 80s. Hmm...0.04 Mb/sec = 40 kbits/sec, which would be OK for any dial-up, and not really reachable till the mid-to-late 90s, at least (v90 and v92 protocols didn't exist back then). The puzzling thing is the 80 kbits upload O_o WTF did you do to skew performance this way?

I retook the test, and results seem to be pretty stable. Don't force me to use GSM speed ;-)

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This isn't too ideal for streaming, but it's actually the best internet deal we've had so far, overall.

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