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how fast is the internet connection

CptCrunch

CptCrunch

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Bored at work tonight, so I ran a speed check at www.speedtest.net. Heres what I got: Text. Freaking amazing. It was still going up too, but the test ran out of data to push through. 🙂

How fast is yours?
 
Work for the state govt. IIRC our pipe is something like 168 mbits or something. I would love to run a speed test at about 6pm someday.
 
fast? haven't run a speed test in awhile, but I work for a hosting company... it's basically my local thin client -> app server -> firewall -> fiber switch
 
Ours is slower than dial-up. At least my computer is due to a specific state network it has to be run through for some specialized software.
 
The internet at my old job was pretty fast however the network was bogged down which made doing everything including surfing really slow.
 
Datacenter/Corporate office has a T3 running into it. But the offsite office I'm at is tunnelled in through a T1.

 
Originally posted by: compuwiz1
Originally posted by: CptCrunch
Bored at work tonight, so I ran a speed check at www.speedtest.net. Heres what I got: Text. Freaking amazing. It was still going up too, but the test ran out of data to push through. 🙂

How fast is yours?
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Can't touch that! :Q
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Ahem.......

*COUGH COUGH*

I'll leave you all to guess what kinda connection that is cuz it basically just breaks the damn speedtest it goes so fast, it's done as pushing the data fast as I can blink, literally 😛

But needless to say we need the ability to push lots and lots and lots of data quickly 24/7/365
 
Originally posted by: CptCrunch
Bored at work tonight, so I ran a speed check at www.speedtest.net. Heres what I got: Text. Freaking amazing. It was still going up too, but the test ran out of data to push through. 🙂

How fast is yours?
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Holy hell, and I thought my university connection was quite nice at 1/9 of that.
 
I have (IIRC) dual OC3's at work, I max out my ethernet connection on those speed tests if it is the middle of the night.

 
Too bad none of those fast connections can utilize that speed because 5% of the users on the web are uploading through bit torrent. You know, flooding the tubes?
 
I was at one of AOL's data centers in Reston VA - and they have an amazingly fast connection. They had three OC-768 going to that one datacenter.
 
speedtest.met is funny, tested at the recomended one got 12/12, tested at one further away on the east coast got 25/10
tested to LA and got 15/13
 
We supposedly have dual T3's, and I'm getting 3 Mb download and 1.5 Mb upload. 😕

For some reason here the bandwidth always seem to suck even in the middle of the night; pretty dang slow for having dual T3's. Network ops insist everything is working fine and show that our bandwidth isn't even saturated; with gigabit throughout our entire building leading to the dual T3's, I would think the bandwidth test would come out better.

What's funny is that there is a cable modem here that we use for backup in case the main lines go down; if I log onto it wirelessly my download speeds increase dramatically.
 
Slow as molassas. Why T1's still exist is beyond me. Even worse, our internal network is all bogged down now that they switched all our phones to VoIP and then switched all our computers over to some dummy terminal program that constantly sucks up bandwidth every time somebody moves their mouse. Now the network is so slow that our voice calls get all messed up like a bad cell phone connection.

Way to go, IT!
 
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