After four months of patient, painful waiting, it has come...

[AMDJunkie]

I GOT DSL!!! WOO WOO WOO! I'm getting like 30+ Kbps in Napster! I'm going to go see what my ping is soon! JOY!

 

[Viper GTS]

You can kiss my...

Never mind.

:|

Viper GTS <- Is a bitter DU user.

 

[Pepsi90919]

30Kilobits? That's less than 56K, dude.

even 30 kilobytes is horrible

 

[arod324]

Man, I if only got 30KBs/s, I would go crazy with my cable connection

 

[Viper GTS]

That's kilobytes. 240K kilobits/second throughput.

Viper GTS

 

[Lord Evermore]

Technically, 30Kbps is 30 kilobits per second. The proper way to abbreviate kilobytes is KB.

Standards, people. Without a common and understood way of communicating, you get discussions over things like this.

As for 30KBps, if it's a 256Kbps DSL, that's pretty damn good. It's about a sixth of what my cable connection gets, but if that's all you could afford or all the provider could give you...

Of course, for a true test of your download speeds you should find a huge test file on your providers FTP server and download it. This way you eliminate as many factors as possible, including latency and sluggishness beyond your providers network. So you end up testing essentially the maximum throughput you can ever expect. Of course you should test at various times of the day.

 

[Pretender]

Waiting for verizon, waiting for verizon...goddamn idiots.

Maybe I should order a shotgun using the slowest possible delivery from some country halfway across the world and see which arrives first. If the shotgun wins, well, you can only guess.

I swear, all phone companies are completely stupid (not yours Viper, you're alright).

 

[Viper GTS]

LE:

While you're technically correct, anybody should be able to realize what he meant.

And yes, 30 KBps is damned good off a 256K connection.

Viper GTS

 

[digi187]

Mine beens acting all funny lately since my format. I was gettin 100k or so from most download.com downloads... now im like at 30k or so

 

[AMDJunkie]

OK, for clarification, I have an ADSL 756/128 Verizon package. The highest I've gotten so far in Napster is 30 KBps. At download.com I get 50 to 80 KBps. And in the usual CS servers I play at I get about 120 ping. I know there are servers closer to me so I'll find those servers and see what my ping is there.

 

[yobarman]

I also use Verizon and I must say it sucks like mad. You'll learn to love the constant downtimes and excellent tech support.

 

[Pretender]

Verizon spread it's hideous plague down to Florida? Ouch...

I had it for a few months, it sucks.
I'm now waiting on them to find me a free port in their precious little CO so I can get my DSL back (with a small DSL ISP in the area). Goddamn they're idiots. Have I mentioned I hate them?

 

[Mday]

verizon is suck =)

 

[Sundog]

I've got RR cable, and last week I tagged on to a user (Napster) that must have had a true T1 line. I downloaded from this user at 140 K/s.

I couldn't believe it, it ate through an 8-9 meg song faster than I could decide the next song to download. I started downloading 4 at a time and the speed dropped to 75-80 K/s per song. I didn't complain

 

[dave127]

verizon dsl up in PA sucks too

 

[AMDJunkie]

Hah, my friend with RR gets about 25 KBps average while i just got 40 in Napster. Yes, I've already dealed with their tech support, it does suck. I've still yet to download off a T1er, see what happens when I do.

 

[Sundog]

RR seems to be a pretty good. Some, like me get outrageous transfer rates, but friends of mine not too far away that also use RR don't have close to the same transfer rates that I do.

Guess I'm just lucky!

 

[duragezic]

25k/sec or 25kb/sec or 40k/se 40kb/sec NOT KBPS. If you got 30kbps off your dsl I'd just laugh.


We all know what ya mean but quit using kbps! . I think the companies like to use kbps to make it sound faster. Like my cable connection: 1.5mbps. DUDE 1.5 MEGABYTES A SECOND.

 

[CromNogger]

Why are all your broadband connections so slow? It's really strange. I don't have broadband, but my dialup is as fast as it can possibly be, and the broadband I've seen around here was pretty fast too. I mean, I would definitely be complaining if 30K/s was the highest I could get, that's not a HUGE improvement over dialup... I want 50-100x faster..

 

[RSI]

All Your Kbps Are Belong to Us.. jk.

Congratulations AMD Junkie, I'm glad you've finally got access to a closer-to-decent connection! Still on the ol' crapper 33-56k here. 56kbps!!!!!

Have fun!

-RSI

 

[yakko]

<< I tagged on to a user (Napster) that must have had a true T1 line. I downloaded from this user at 140 KBps >>

I tagged a user that had a T-3 and was getting an average of 200 but hit 350 a couple of times.

 

[shawnmos]

My school has T3 and it is so phucking awesome compared to my 24k connection. it sucks though cause they have napster and just about every other mp3 site blocked. i found one though and i download an mp3 in 3 sec. ;drool: must...get...t...3. Anyway my dl speeds are like 1.5-2.5 kbps.