What kind of connection....

[TraumaRN]

I was at work today....just bored and tested my connection speed at work with the speakeasy.net test.....it was averaging around 3900megabytes a sec down and around 950megabytes up....so i'm guessing the top speed at the 4000/1000 i mentioned.....what sort of connection is this? Some sort of crazy fiber optic??

 

[petey117]

where do you work?
maybe OC48
probably an error in proxying the test or caching it

generally with fibre, up and down speeds are synchronous, rather than async, as you have seen

 

[TraumaRN]

I work for Detroit Medical Center, we're going all electronic with our charting and all 10 hospitals are connected on an intranet....i can even access it here at home.....all i know is they've made a massive investment in having an extremely stable and fast inter/intranet for obvious reasons with the amounts of data we're pushing around

 

[petey117]

yeah, you are probably on a backbone with a 100Mb connection
pretty sweet.
time to start running a gaming server

 

[ktwebb]

Well lets see. 100Mb connection would top out, theoretically, at 12.5MB. Petey says he is sees 3900MB, or 3.9 GB. All typed in Bytes. He'd need an OC-192 to get those speeds. Possible but I think more likely we have some MB/Mb confusion here.

 

[petey117]

lol yeah, i agree.
ps it wasn't me stating speeds it was OP deathbua

 

[nightowl]

Yeah, this is most likely a Mb versus a MB misunderstanding. There is no way the OP's PC could achieve that kind of speeds. The fastest it could have been is 1Gb and even then there would be other limiting factors.

 

[petey117]

i still say it was a caching issue, i don't believe it pulled those numbers

 

[nightowl]

That is also a good possibility. However, that is an abnormally high speed even for caching.

 

[TC10284]

Agreed.

He probably either means kbps or mbps, not MB/sec. Hehe....that's about impossible for most systems to achieve and would take an INSANE OC connection. =)

 

[TraumaRN]

Little update on the connection speeds.....went back to work today found an empty computer and retested...made sure it wasnt in the cache too, and it was my confusion, after about 10 tests just for making sure i dont get any extreme highs or lows it was roughly 300-320megabytes(i'm sure this time!) down and 70-90megabytes up....so just from a quick check around the internet probably an OC48 connection? Something such as that...at least I think....sorry for the confusion guys!

 

[Goosemaster]

Originally posted by: DeathBUA
Little update on the connection speeds.....went back to work today found an empty computer and retested...made sure it wasnt in the cache too, and it was my confusion, after about 10 tests just for making sure i dont get any extreme highs or lows it was roughly 300-320megabytes(i'm sure this time!) down and 70-90megabytes up....so just from a quick check around the internet probably an OC48 connection? Something such as that...at least I think....sorry for the confusion guys!

I'm sorry dude, but your PC can't even handle that uch data......the PCI 2.1 bus is 133MB/s at full speed assumign that your NIC is PCI or on that bridge.....


Keep in mind that no ADMINISTRATOR IN HIS RIGHT MIND would allow for tha much HTTP traffic.

It looks like you are defintiely on at least a gigabit MAN or more, but there are soooooo many facotrs that prevent us from believeing you


sorry


and no, screenshots are not required

Still nice though....


Try downloading service pack2 for XP and service pack 1 for SBS 2003 and tell us what speeds you get...


those will be closer to real-world although with akamai's grid you still might be cheatin'



congrats on the find though

 

[TraumaRN]

Simple question......I know the computer cant handle that much data but is it possible it's just showing like theoritical bandwidth if the computer wasnt bus limited? I mean like saying this is what your connection could do? Sorry if it seems like a dumb question, thanks tho

 

[petey117]

send a screen shot!
try a different bandwidth test (google "cnet bandwidth")

sometime when i do a tracert i get responses with negative milliseconds. I do not believe that these packets traveled back in time and were recieved a few ms before they even left ;-)

 

[Slowlearner]

Reliable speed test site:

miranda.ctd.anl.gov:7123/

Try it out and post results

 

[Tarrant64]

TCP/Web100 Network Diagnostic Tool v5.3.4e
click START to begin
Checking for Middleboxes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Done
running 10s outbound test (client to server) . . . . . 292.62Kb/s
running 10s inbound test (server to client) . . . . . . 4.05Mb/s
Your PC is connected to a Cable/DSL modem

click START to re-test


That's what i get from it.

 

[skypilot]

Originally posted by: DeathBUA
I was at work today....just bored and tested my connection speed at work with the speakeasy.net test.....it was averaging around 3900megabytes a sec down and around 950megabytes up....so i'm guessing the top speed at the 4000/1000 i mentioned.....what sort of connection is this? Some sort of crazy fiber optic??

I would have to be quad OC192s or 10Gig Ethernet connections, as 4GBps = 32Gbps... However with said connections upload and download would generally be in sync.