Post you speed....
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From: Lafayette, IN
Originally Posted by wrobo23
is there a way to speed things up lol...
Jason
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Decided to ping Central America. 
<a href="http://www.speedtest.net"><img src="http://www.speedtest.net/result/183779826.png"></a>
This one a bit closer to home.
<a href="http://www.speedtest.net"><img src="http://www.speedtest.net/result/183779826.png"></a>
This one a bit closer to home.
Last edited by sierraben; Sep 11, 2007 at 05:14 PM.
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Originally Posted by obxredneck
Well shoot I did it today on my desktop computer (hooked directly to the linksys router) and got this. I still only get the first speed on my laptop and others though using wireless through the router. Anybody know whats going on?
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Nobody's posted a 10gig speed.
kb/s = kiloBITS per second
kB/s = kiloBYTES per second
Mb/s = megaBITS per second
MB/S = megaBYTES per second
A BYTE is usually 8 BITS, or one text character.
A kiloBYTE (kB) is 1024 BYTES, or about 8 kb.
A megaBYTE is 1024 kB.
My cable connection is advertised at 10 Mb/s, (megabits per second) which is about 1.25 MB/s (megabytes per second). So a 25 MB file would take me about 20 seconds to download. Apparently, my speed to that speed test server is a little better than my advertised speed.
In reality, though, you will only see these top speeds if you are accessing a server that is relatively close (within a couple hundred miles). If I were to do the same speed test to a site in say, California, I would probably get about a third of the speed. Not to mention, your actual speed is often dependent on your ISP's servers, as well as the server of the webpage you are accessing. There are a lot of variables along the way that can slow things down, including how your own computer is set up.
Jason
kb/s = kiloBITS per second
kB/s = kiloBYTES per second
Mb/s = megaBITS per second
MB/S = megaBYTES per second
A BYTE is usually 8 BITS, or one text character.
A kiloBYTE (kB) is 1024 BYTES, or about 8 kb.
A megaBYTE is 1024 kB.
My cable connection is advertised at 10 Mb/s, (megabits per second) which is about 1.25 MB/s (megabytes per second). So a 25 MB file would take me about 20 seconds to download. Apparently, my speed to that speed test server is a little better than my advertised speed.
In reality, though, you will only see these top speeds if you are accessing a server that is relatively close (within a couple hundred miles). If I were to do the same speed test to a site in say, California, I would probably get about a third of the speed. Not to mention, your actual speed is often dependent on your ISP's servers, as well as the server of the webpage you are accessing. There are a lot of variables along the way that can slow things down, including how your own computer is set up.
Jason
