How fast is your internet?

[Exonerate]

You get packet loss on your connection? That is one shitty connection.

And upload caps suck something bad.

Yeah, Verizon's network really needs some upgrading... The conditions have improved, but a few months back I was getting like 30% packet loss at peak hours. Once I did a traceroute of a site in New York (I'm in SoCal), and my packets got routed from the West Coast to the East Coast and back to the West Coast, then to the East Coast then England then East Coast and West Coast and finally to New York.

Moral of the story is avoid Verizon if at all possible.

[Col. Crackpot]

Communications 4.7 megabits per second
Storage 572.7 kilobytes per second
1MB file download 1.8 seconds
Subjective rating Awesome
Explain results

Info
Date & time Friday, August 19, 6:55PM*
Test type IDT4 Free
Connection type Cable
Region Rhode Island
Data size 1024KB
IP address

i've actually expierenced download speeds up to 6.8 megabits/second

[Uraniun235]

Moral of the story is avoid Verizon if at all possible.

That's funny, I get great service from Verizon here in Oregon. (If only they were running FIOS out to my town... *sigh*)

3Mbit down, 768Kbit up, $30/month. I think there's a 7M plan for like $70/month, but I'm not sure of the price.

No caps whatsoever... or, if there are any (which a Verizon employee who posted over at the SA forums vehemently denied), they're exceedingly huge; I uploaded over 72 gigabytes in the month of May, and downloaded over 65 that same month. I've downloaded over 220 GB over the course of 2005.

I've seen the line maxed out before, and speed tests usually haven't been accurate in measuring my connection, so I won't bother jumping through that hoop.

[Zadius]

Communications 529.8 kilobits per second
Storage 64.7 kilobytes per second
1MB file download 15.8 seconds
Subjective rating Not bad

Heh, If you would have asked me 3 weeks ago my response would have been as follows:

56k dialup
AOL
Subjective rating: Kill yourself now.

[White Haven]

Bandwidth is testing low, I regularly see 3+Mbit sustained downloads.
ISP is Cavalier Telephone, started out as a local telco in Richmond, but now is a phone/ISP company that covers a chunk of the eastern seaboard.

Static IP
Communications 2.6 megabits per second
Storage 313.6 kilobytes per second
1MB file download 3.3 seconds
Subjective rating Great

$25/mo, no limits.

[darthdavid]

From that test
Speed

4.7 megabits per second
Communications 4.7 megabits per second
Storage 577.9 kilobytes per second
1MB file download 1.8 seconds
Subjective rating Awesome

[Ace Pace]

2Mbit down, quarter of that up(can't remember but its 8KB/S)

Max real speed I've seen is on a dedicated gamespot server, 200kB/s.

Yes, this is a shitty connection.

[Mr. T]

DSL, so it's pretty motherfucking fast

[Pu-239]

Sigh... Business cable w/ no caps and no server restrictions costs 85$/month on a one year contract for 1.5 down, 384 up, w/ one year contract - I'll just get it if my cable company bitches, but otherwise eh- for some reason I don't think they strictly enforce bandwidth usage. Slower download speeds aren't an issue since my experience is the servers can't upload that fast.

[TimothyC]

Communications 580.1 kilobits per second
Storage 70.8 kilobytes per second
1MB file download 14.5 seconds
Subjective rating Not bad
Explain results

Info
Date & time Monday, August 22, 4:53PM*
Test type IDT4 Free
Connection type Wireless: 802.11
Region Michigan
Data size 1024KB

That's While on the campus Wi-Fi

I'll post from my apartment later.

[Death from the Sea]

results from bandwidthplace.com test

4.3 megabits per second

Communications 4.3 megabits per second
Storage 526.7 kilobytes per second
1MB file download 1.9 seconds
Subjective rating Awesome

Explain results


Info
Date & time Monday, August 22, 5:27PM*
Test type IDT4 Free
Connection type Cable
Region Texas
Data size 1024KB

[TimothyC]

And now for in my apartment

Communications 161.6 kilobits per second
Storage 19.7 kilobytes per second
1MB file download 51.9 seconds
Subjective rating Mediocre
Explain results

Info
Date & time Tuesday, August 23, 4:14AM*
Test type IDT4 Free
Connection type T1 or HDSL
Region Michigan
Data size 1024KB

That's what I get for sharing dual T-1 lines with about 150+ other people.

[Argosh]

Official downstream speed: 1 Mbit/s
Official upstream speed: 256 kbit/s
Service provider: Elion (Estonia)
Monthly charge: ADSL Kodu-2 for 395.- (roughly 30$)
Maximum speeds available: No idea, I'll be comfortable with mine for a while.
Bandwidth caps: None that I know of.

Speed test
Communications: 750.5 kilobits per second
Storage: 91.6 kilobytes per second
1 MB file download: 11.2 seconds
Subjective rating: Good

I'm not complaining after years with a 56k modem.